MS Word 2008 with Lion

Hello All:
I need help. I recently upgraded my Macbook from Snow Leopard to Lion and my MS Word 2008 has been a mess ever since. Each time I open a Word document file, every word document file that I have used in the previous week opens simultaneously. Is this a bug that MS or Apple is working to fix, or is there something I can do on my end?

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I ask this question because basically I am regularly updating large online PDFs - starting with an MS Word master and then importing this into InDesign, making layout adjustments and then exporting to PDF. I therefore need to make the process as quick as possible (which I have done through a number of Applescripts) and one of the things I want to speed up is to have to manually go through and relink the images each time. So either I need some quick way of linking the images, OR (if I've understood you correctly) not worry about relinking the images because there is no loss of quality from when we link and embed the graphics in MS Word to when they become embedded in InDesign? This would mean the only time I would have to relink the images is when we do a printed version (which requires better quality images)???

Microsoft word 2008 crashes abruptly when trying to use track changes

Hi,
I believe this may be related to recently downloading Yosemite:
Every time I try to use Microsoft Word (2008) with "track changes" on, Word shuts off abruptly.
Has any one else had this problem? Is there a way to fix it?
I've already tried Disk Utility - disk & disk permissions repair.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

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