

- #Microsoft word crashes when opening blank document update#
- #Microsoft word crashes when opening blank document upgrade#
You will need to enter headers and footers again, but the document should now work as you expect it to. If you just want to see a blank document as in previous versions of. The text from the old document is pasted in the new document.Īt this point you should do your work with the new document. If you are using Word 2013 or Word 2016, you may have noticed that Microsoft changed what you see when you start the program. (You should have everything in the document selected except the final paragraph marker.) They cannot be detected by the cursor to be moved, nor changed by Margins in Layout. Nothing Ive tried will change those margins. Now, EVERY time I open a Blank Document in Word it opens with left and right margins of 1/4 inch each. This file might have some type of corruption which is causing Word to crash. After installing the latest MS Office updates, check if Excel works fine.
#Microsoft word crashes when opening blank document upgrade#
NOTE: This also works if you cant open Excel file or Excel crashes after Windows upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 10.
#Microsoft word crashes when opening blank document update#
The file is called Normal.dotm and it can be found in C:Usersuser nameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates. If you have installed MS Excel from Microsoft Store, open the store and update your Office applications. This "unselects" the final paragraph marker in the document. Latest Windows 10 OS, running MS Office Pro plus 2016, apparently just updated by MS a couple of weeks ago. Try deleting the template that Word uses when creating a blank document. Hold down the Shift key as you press the Left Arrow.In the problem document, press Ctrl+A to select the entire document.In the new document, set the margins the way you want them to appear.

Here is one way to try to "reclaim" your document: More than likely, the document has, in some way, become corrupted. I have office 2010 and it always worked great. It also crashes when I open a old document as soon as I try to work with it. The fact that this is only happening with some documents is an indicator that the problem doesn't lie with Word, but with the documents exhibiting this behavior. I just loaded Office 2013 and when I open word 2013 it crashes when I try to open a new doc. Susie reports that sometimes she tries to change the margins on a document, but that she cannot-the preview area in the Page Setup dialog box doesn't display correctly, and any changes to the controls are ineffectual. Note that this scenario can also cause problems for PowerPoint and Excel, but not when you first open them only Word crashes. In such an environment, it is not unusual to reuse someone else's document, or use an existing document as the basis for a new document.

In her office, everyone shares documents. Susie wrote about a problem she was having with setting margins in some documents.
