HT1199 My apps are shutting down when I try to save them. What's happening?

I can open a new document on Word, Pages or Textedit but everytime I write something and I click save, it immediately gives me the spinning wheel and I have to force quit it.

In July 2012, a fellow poster nicknamed "rosyfingereddawn" posted this hint/tip on the forum:
"rosyfingereddawn
Re: Simple fix for the Preview and TextEdit Crash after Lion OS X Update 
15 juil. 2012 11:41 (in response to Silvertoe)
There is a simple solution for annoying Preview crashes (at least, with Mac OSX 10.7+ Lion OS).
Open terminal:
cd          # make sure you are in your home directory
then " hide" the com.apple.preview  folder found in your Library/Containers folder :
mv Library/Containers/com.apple.preview Library/Containers/com.apple.preview.hiding
You will notice that the next time you open Preview, the com.apple.preview folder will be automatically recreated, and your problem is solved.
The same should work for TextEdit.
Many of the work arounds in this thread are doing the same thing, indirectly.
If you are a command line ace, you can just remove the folder. But it is preferable to "hide" a folder before removing it to check the effect anyway."
It applies to Lion, so all the part about showing your Library is moot, but it points at some plist files becoming corrupted for some reason. You could try to delete the plist files related to the applications you named in your ~/Library/Preferences folder (without said applications running, that goes without saying), and relaunch Word, TextEdit or Pages.
Since all three are text processor applications, your problem could be solved by repairing permissions, too.

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