Problems while opening Word 2007 after installing update on Vista?
Posted by admin on July 22nd, 2010Microsoft Word 2007 helps you create professional documents with much ease. It has a comprehensive set of tools for creating and formatting a document. Moreover, with advanced data integration, your documents remain connected to important sources of business information. At times, when you install an automatic update for Word 2007 on a Vista-based system, you might encounter several problems while opening or closing a Word document. In many scenarios, the Word application would crash resulting in a corrupt document. In such situations, it becomes necessary to consider Word repair steps. If you take corrective measures on time, you can address the issues efficiently, thus minimizing the risk of data loss.
Consider a scenario, wherein, you install an automatic update for Microsoft Word 2007 on a Vista-based computer and then restart your computer. If you do not close the Word application before restarting the computer, you may experience the following symptoms:
• The mouse does not work on a Word document
• You won’t be able to open a Word document from the Search Window
• Word application might crash when you try to start or exit it
• Word crashes when you open a Word document
• Word crashes when you close a document
Apart from the above symptoms, you may come across various error messages when you close or open a Word document or application. One of them is given below:
“Microsoft Word has stopped working.”
Cause
The above symptoms can be experienced in the following conditions:
•If the Word data registry key is damaged
•Or if the Word document is corrupt
Resolution
You can perform the following Word recovery steps in order to resolve the issues with both Word documents and the application:
•Delete the damaged Word Data registry key by executing the following steps:
1.Exit all office programs
2.Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK
3.Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data
4.On the Edit menu, click Delete, and then click Yes
5.Exit Registry Editor
6.Restart Word
•In order to fix corrupt Word documents and recover data, you must opt for a third-party Word repair software.
Such tools repair corrupt Word documents instantly and recover data by applying improved scanning algorithms.
Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery is an easy-to-use application which recovers corrupt Word files created with Microsoft Word 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000 versions. The Word recovery software restores all objects like tables, macros, charts, images, drawings etc.