Microsoft Office in parallels stops working

Question

Hi. My mom upgraded to an iMac a few months ago. She works freelance as a translator, and thus uses several electronic dictionaries. Unfrotunately, these dictionaries are only available for windows, and so are some of the spell checks that she uses.
Consequently, she works in microsoft office 2010 installed in parallels 7 with windows 7 home premium (OS X lion) (yes, before you make fun of me, I do know about pages, numbers and keynote, its the compatibility with some of the spel checkers that is the problem).
So the problem is, when she tries to run a spell check, a window appears saying: "microsoft word have stopped working and need to close". This also happens ocasionally at random intervals.
Is this a microsoft problem, a parallels problem, or just a simple setting somewhere? At the moment, she has to transfer every document to her old computer to perfor a spell check.
Thanks
Nico-Ben

Answer 1

This could be either a Word problem, a Windows problem, or (least likely) a Parallels problem. It could well be a problem with Windows malware, particularly if she's not running good, well-updated malware protection in Windows on that system. It's not a Mac problem, however, so I suggest you take this issue up in either the Parallels forum, Microsoft's forums for Word or Windows, or a web site oriented to Windows troubleshooting.
Regards.