One of the most depressing moments is when you click on the Save button to save a Word document you are working on, an error pops up and says: Microsoft Word is not responding. The error also happens when you try to open a Word document.
If you can’t save or open a Word file because Microsoft Word is not responding on Windows or Mac, here are how to fix it and save the document.
Microsoft Word Not Responding When Opening or Saving a Document(Windows)
1. Repair Microsoft Word
If MS Word is not responding on your Windows 11/10/8/7 PC when you try to save or open a document, you can start to fix the problem by repairing the Microsoft Word application.
Access the Repair Tool
On Windows 11/10, right-click the Start button and click Apps and Features. Select Microsoft Word from the Apps list and select Modify.
On Windows 8, and 7, click the Start button and select Control Panel. Open Programs > Uninstall a program. Right-click on Microsoft Word and select Change.
Run the Repair Tool for Microsoft Word
If your Microsoft Office is installed by click-to-run, you will see the window “How would you like to repair your Office Programs”. Click Online Repair > Repair.
If your Microsoft Office is MSI-based installed, you’ll see the “Change your installation” window, click Repair > Continue.
Follow the on-screen instructions to finish the repair. Then try to open or save the Word document and see if Word is responding now.
2. Disconnect Network Drive
If you are using a network drive to save the Word files, Microsoft Word doesn’t respond if the network drive is not existing or is offline. You may disconnect the network drive from your computer to fix the unresponsive Microsoft Word.
Step 1. Go to My Computer.
Step 2. Right-click on it and select Disconnect Network Drive.
Step 3. Click the letter of the drive that the Word files are saved to and click OK to disconnect the drive.
Now all contents on the network drive can be accessed via Windows Explorer.
3. Disable Add-ins in Microsoft Word
When your Microsoft Word is not responding, Add-ins for Word may be the culprit. Disable all the add-ins for Word.
Step 1. In Microsoft Word, click File > Word Options > Add-ins.
Step 2. Under Manage: Com-in Add, click Go to open all add-ins.
Step 3. Disable all add-ins and click OK.
4. Save Document When Microsoft Word Not Responding
If Microsoft Word is not responding and you have to close Microsoft Word without saving the Word document, you can try to recover the unsaved Word document in the following 2 ways.
Fittex għall-Fajls tal-Backup tal-Kelma
By default, Microsoft Word turns on the “Always create backup copy” option so that it will create a backup copy of the working Word file automatically. Here is how to access the backup copy in different versions of Word.
- For Word 2016: Click “File > Open > Browse”.
- For Word 2013: “File > Open > Computer > Browse”
- For Word 2010: Click “File > Open”.
- For Word 2007: Click “Microsoft Office Button > Open”.
Then navigate to the folder where you last saved the Word file.
In the Files of type list (All Word documents), click “All Files”. Find and click the backup file and then open it.
If you couldn’t find a backup of the unsaved Word file, use a Data Recovery to get it back.
Use Data Recovery to Restore Lost Files
Irkupru tad-Data can quickly and deeply scan your computer to retrieve deleted Word documents as well as images, videos, audio, and more from hard drives (including Recycle Bin) on Windows 11/10/8/7/XP. See how easy it is to find back lost documents:
Pass 1. Tnedija Data Recovery.
Step 2. Select the Document file type and hard disk drive to go into the scanning process. It will be better if you remember which drive the Word documents are saved to. If not, choose all hard disk drives.
Pass 3. Ikklikkja Skennja. Quick Scan will be carried out automatically.
Step 4. Check the scanned results by Lista tat-Tip u, Path List. Just check all the Word document files found. You are always allowed to preview the files.
If you find the result unsatisfying, try Deep Scan which may take some time.
Fix Microsoft Word Not Responding on Mac
If Microsoft Word doesn’t respond on Mac, you may force quit the application and fix the problem with the following methods.
1. Clear the Auto Recovery folder
Step 1. Open the Go menu and click Home.
Pass 2. Mur dokumenti > Microsoft User Data then you will find the Office Autorecovery folder.
Step 3. Open the folder, there are the auto-recovery files of the Microsoft application. You can copy or move the files somewhere else to save them. Then delete all the files in the folder.
Now launch Microsoft Word and see if it is responding now.
2. Remove Word Preferences Files
Step 1. Click Go > Go to the folder, then type ~/Library to open the Library folder.
Step 2. Open the Preferences folder and select the Word preference file, which is named com.microsoft.Word.plist. Move the file to somewhere else like the desktop.
Now launch Microsoft Word and see if it is responding.
If the problem still exists, do the following:
- Restore the file named com.microsoft.Word.plist to the original folder, then exit all Microsoft Office programs.
- Then, Click the Word icon > Preferences > Personal Settings > File Locations > User templates.
- You will find a file named Normal. Move it to the desktop.
Now launch Microsoft Word and test the program.
3. Save Word Document on Mac
The worst case is that Word is not responding so the document can’t be saved, you can try to retrieve unsaved Word documents with Data Recovery for Mac.
Data Recovery for Mac can scan out all the existing and deleted Word documents on your Mac and save Word documents as soon as possible.
All the above are the ways to fix and save document files when Microsoft Word is not responding on Mac or Windows.
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