microsoft word crashes on yosemite

I have office365 with office installed on my mac air and with Yosemite on, out of the blue word refused to close documents and was terminating abnormally and I had no way to close all open word documents :-(

I even uninstalled the whole of office and had to reinstall but still didn't fix the problem :-(

Finally had to come out of max-window status and then it allowed me to close -

Since upgrading to Yosemite - I have the following problems with WORD

1. I can no longer scroll through a document using a mouse / pad

2.Saving documents is difficult since the save window disappears off screen - meaning that I can't opt to create new folder / or save or cancel

3. Everything is clunky and slow

I've tried to install the service pack (also the first) but it says that he can't find a version of the software to install the update although I do have it.

Any suggestions?

I can still use word documents I've made before installing Yosemite but I can't open any documents that I've just downloaded :-(.

Hi everyone,

I had the same experience and was able to resolve this problem by simply re-installing Microsoft Office.

More specifically, I was experiencing multiple crashes in Word after installation of Yosemite, and the issues worsened after I installed the latest update of Office (14.4.5). I decided to remove the 14.4.5 update but the only way to do this was to uninstall and re-install Office. So this is what I did, and Word has not crashed since then. Fyi, my current Office version is for Mac 2011 (version 14.4.0).

I hope this will help solve your issues!

Thank you!!!! This works (so far). What a relief! You should get a billion points.

I have the same problem. It won't open a document I have that has comments in it and it won't let me use comments or track changes or it just closes.

Uninstalled and reinstalled latest update of Microsoft Office 2011 - now have 14.4.6 - and STILL am having freezing problems with Word. If I try to save an open doc, or choose to Don't Save, the red close button fades as does all other commands. The only way around this is to Force Quit, restart Word and the unsaved docs reappear. Can't work this way. Am near tears with frustration. Does anyone have a solution beyond downloading the latest Office update???

Same here. The update to 14.4.6 worked for a few days. Then this morning, it is back. EXCEPT now my Word 11 for Mac has lost its recover feature, and all my work is totally gone. I've also had serious difficulties with Excel after the update.

I take it back. Now Word 11 with Yosemite is back to its previous behavior.

I have heard so many bad comments and read of so many failed solutions I think the only answer is to demand Apple find a way to return us all to the old system. Instead of writing each other every day we should pour on the complaints to Apple Corporate. Reverting is not easy I am told. My photographer (a pro) happened to have 2 hard discs and when he finally gave up trying to solve the myriad problems he swapped the Yosmite infected hard drive for an older one and all was well - Apple told me at one of their stores that I could not revert back to the old system and if anyone knows a way pleas say so and let us abandon this fruitless discussion and this horrible "improved" system

The 14.4.6 update only worsened the problem for me, see my post just above your previous post on how to solve the problem.

I had freezes while using the track changes and comments features of MS Word, and I could'nt waste one more day. So I choose to downgrade to Mavericks (I'm a Mac user since 1988, ant it was the first time I did such a downgrade!) Surely it's not easy, but there are a few good tutorials around. I used this one and it worked fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHKUGue60g ("OS X Yosemite 10.10 to OS X Mavericks 10.9 Tutorial DOWNGRADE").

Thanks! So you reinstalled 14.4.0? I'll try that. Anyone else having luck reverting to a previous version of Office/Word?

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Thank you. This worked for me.