Windows 8 and MS Word
I recently bought a laptop that came with Win8 (I know, I know, but I'm stuck with it). It doesn't seem to like MS Word, on which I have all my documents stored and which I continue to (try to) use. ...
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mockturtle wrote:strollin wrote:I was able to install MS Word 2002 and I can retrieve the files and create new documents. However, the program often closes unexpectedly.
I didn't run extensive tests but I did verify that I could create/save/reopen files in both Word and Excel. There may be features that don't work that I didn't try.
Do you remember what were you doing when the program closed suddenly? I haven't encountered that happening but maybe you are using a feature I haven't tried.
You should try setting the properties of the msword.exe file to XP compatibility mode or set it to run as administrator.
