Office 2010 - Opening Network Files causes crashes

Question

Our users documents are mapped to network storage via a Home folder location. Our treasurer has began encountering an issue with Office 2010 with Word (this is where I've been putting most of my effort) and Excel, other programs not tested. 
Upon going to 'File->Open' it automatically redirects to his Home folder on the Network drive, and Office goes through it's various stages of crashing (encountered an issue, etc.) I've copied the contents of one specific folder he does most of his work in
to his desktop, but this is not optimal. Opening the contents from the desktop yields no issue.
As far as troubleshooting goes, I first tried doing a repair, then reinstall, and finally an advanced uninstall with Revo figuring it may be a corrupted registry key. None of this worked. I Googled some info on it and found add-ons commonly caused an issue.
I went as far as recommended by a MS support article, ultimately removing both the entire add-ins folder in Program files and in the registry. Still an issue. I progressed through various other support articles, removing various further keys (settings, toolbars,
etc.) Still occurring. I landed upon a technet article with nearly an exact issue, and it recommended updating as MS had fixed this various issue. (duh!) Update-wise, it was pretty far behind because all of our updates are signed through SCCM, regardless,
I have it fully updated up to Office Service pack 2. It's doing selective startups through msconfig as well, down to only Microsoft services. Finally, I've tried sfc /scannow, as well as safe mode, and neither had promising results (it was the first time I
was really hoping for sfc to find an error!
Just for further reference, I've tried all fixes in this article (before realizing it was only on network docs.) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541/en-us
As well as everything here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/a31f0a8e-e371-420f-a3f3-f85713f7ac0f/word-crashes-when-trying-to-open-file-from-network?forum=word
I attempted the crash dumps in this thread but was ultimately unsuccessful http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/95bc7898-e92d-4e47-8f73-390dba53e851/office-2010-applications-can-not-open-network-files-without-crashing?forum=officeitproprevious 

Answer 1

Hi,
Have you found anything in event Viewer?
Press Win + R and type “eventvwr” in the blank box, then press Enter.
You may find some information to determine the issue and post the information here to let me know more about this issue.
You can learn how to user event viewer from this link:
http://www.howtogeek.com/123646/htg-explains-what-the-windows-event-viewer-is-and-how-you-can-use-it/
Regards,
Melon Chen
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