

It is a Microsoft product but it is truly not the same program as the Desktop version. To be OK, but I'm not sure I would use that either.


The file was originally saved in my local Onedrive folder, so I tried accessing it from my other computer that has Word 2013 and I again faced the same problem. On "open and repair" from inside MS Word, but nothing worked. I have tried opening the document in protected view, safe mode and also tried repairing the document by clicking Sometimes it opens the document for a few minutes before crashing. Since then, every time I try to open the formatted document, Word crashes. Please let me know if this helped and works. Try a Repair Online and verified after repair it fix. A menu will pop up allowing you to choose repair or reinstall. Go to Control Panel > Add and Remove Programs and highlight Microsoft Office. If, the procedures above didn't work, I refer to repair Office in the following link for more information: In the link below explain how disable add-in: If, word works properly do you need to disable add-ins:Ĭlick on Go button besides Manage: Com-Add-in.Ĭheck if there are add-ins listed, clear the checkbox to disable them.
#Ms word crashes when opening in protected view windows
Hold the windows key + Letter ‘R’ on the keyboard to launch the Run command > Copy and paste the following command line in the open box and click Ok. Try working with the Word Safe mode and check if it helps. I'm Diego Rios, an Independent Advisor willing to help other Microsoft customers. Any ideas?įor the record, my work isn't lost - I can still open the file with Word Online or with Open Office just that I cannot get Word 2013 or Word 2016 to open the document, which is precisely what I need. Would accept my dissertation only in that particular format. However, that doesn't solve my problem as my school Apparently, those suggestions didn't help him either and he had to open the file with Word Online and strip it off the formatting used earlier to make it work. I tried the suggestions that people had given on the forum, namely, opening the document in the Safe Mode and then disabling all plugins but the documentĬouldn't be opened in the Safe Mode either. I found someone else's post in a forum on the Internet who had had the exact same problem with Word 2013 after he addedĪ downloaded stylesheet from a trusted source to his document in the local Onedrive folder on his computer. Open all other documents on both my computers without any issue, leading me to think the problem lies somewhere in the template I used. I have tried opening the document in protected view, safe mode and also tried repairing the documentīy clicking on "open and repair" from inside MS Word, but nothing worked. They also offer a template on the school's website, which I downloaded and used to format my dissertation My school requires me to format the dissertation according to the school's style-sheet. student in the final stages of dissertation writing.
