Why always necessary to Force Quite Micro Office?

I realize it doesn't run natively, but then I have several other programs that don't either. Nearly every time I use Word Or Xcell in OS X I have to Force Quite.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
MacBook Pro - week 9 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Bootcamp installed / NO WHINE / Reasonable heat

I have the same issue. About 3 out of 5 times I exact an MS Office app it will hang and peg one core at around 90%. I usually don't notice it --- man is that computer fast. But I do notice it on battery, so now I check activity monitor after I exit and just force quit if the process doesnt go away after a minute. Weird thing is that the UI menu bar and window all go away, so it appears it's closed properly.

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TS3276 hi after updating to Mountain Lion, it becomes difficult to quit Mail, always have to Force Quit. And while Mail is on standby, the fan keeps on running full power, the laptop is hot. Why is this happening?

hi after updating to Mountain Lion, it becomes difficult to quit Mail, always have to Force Quit. And while Mail is on standby, the fan keeps on running full power, the laptop is hot. Why is this happening?

If your computer was hot it wasn't asleep - it either didn't go to sleep or it work up after you put it to sleep. I've seen both things happen. First, read this article and follow the instructions.
1) For the next few days/weeks pay attention to the blinking light on the front of your computer when you close the lid. Don't put the computer into your backpack/case until it begins to blink. Wait a minute or so after it starts to blink to make sure it doesn't stop blinking - the signal it woke back up.
2) having followed the above instructions, if you take the computer out and it is hot again or if you take it out and discover it has powered down (you'll know this because when it starts up the battery will be drained and you'll see a progress bar over a ghostly display that will eventually become normal) immediately start the Console program and perform a search on 'sleep' and then 'wake'. This should bring up all the recent log files about sleep state changes (going to sleep and waking up). You should see one for when you put the computer to sleep and put it away and the next one should be just after you got it out. You'll find at least one though that shouldn't be there. That will tell you when the computer work up (when it shouldn't have) and might give a clue as to why.
One of the whys could be a magnet that is making the computer think the lid has been opened.

Why do applications keep force quitting when try to open them?

Mail, microsoft word, chrome, firefox, iPhoto and another apps force quit wheni try to open them. i have run disk utility and onyx many times.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take one of the actions that you're having trouble with. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Always have to force quite Microsoft Word

For years now, the only way to quit Microsoft Word is to force quit it. This happens on three of my computers. Anyone else have this issue?

What system and MS Office versions are you currently running?
Have you applied all of the available updaters to your version of MS Office. Use the Help ➙ Check for Updates menu option.
I'm running MS Office 2008 with Yosemite and it takes about 8 - 10 seconds for Word to quit. This is the version of Word I have.

Always have to force quit mail app

A few weeks ago, I starting having problems with my mail app on my imac. I have 2 mail accounts set up in the app, one is my mobile me and the other is through AOL. Before I updated my computer to snow leopard, this app worked fine. It seem to work fine for a few weeks after I did the update, but now once I open the mail app, in order to get new mail to show up in the inbox, I have to force quit out of the app and open it back up. I cannot just go to 'mail' and 'quit mail' the app freezes. I have tried clicking the 'get mail' button and nothing happens when clicking on it. I have also searched the support forums and have tried to delete the 'com.apple.mail.plist' file and nothing changes.
I am frustrated because I have this exact same set up on my macbook pro and things seem to work just fine. I have checked all the settings and they all match.
Any ideas? I am sick of force quitting and reopening mail when I want to see if I have new emails....
Anyway to just get rid of the mail app and reinstall this application. I dont want to have to re-install the entire snow leopard program and have to go through all the tedious work of putting all my stuff back on the computer.... (the first time I did the upgrade, for some reason my computer crashed, and I lost everything, had to call apple support and they had to talk me through the reinstall-- luckily I had everything backed up on disks)

Finder won't show you invisible Files (filenames beginning with a period). That's what makes fixing Mail such a hassle.
In Applications/Utilities you'll find a program called Terminal.app. It lets you access the command-line interface where you're free to do absolutely anything. Be careful there.
Open a Terminal window and paste this in:
find ~/Library/Mail -name .\*
A list of invisible files files will be displayed. If it's just caches and index states, as I mentioned in the earlier posting, run the command again with the delete flag:
find ~/Library/Mail -name .\* -delete
Don't run this if the first listing looks like it's showing e-mails. I also recommend checking that you have a backup first.

Is it really (still) necessary to force quit apps-

… in iOS 8?
Or does that do more harm than good?
TIA!

Thanks. This paragraph makes it most clear, doesn't it:
By closing the app, you take the app out of the phone's RAM. While you think this may be what you want to do, it's not. When you open that same app again the next time you need it, your device has to load it back into memory all over again. All of that loading and unloading puts more stress on your device than just leaving it alone. Plus, iOS closes apps automatically as it needs more memory, so you're doing something your device is already doing for you. You are meant to be the user of your device, not the janitor.
I'm heading towards stopping doing it!

Mail never quits completely, I have to force quit

Mac Mail never quits completely. I always have to force quit. What's up? I have it running, I hit CMD+Q and it closes, but you can see it running in the dock. I usually forget that it's running until the fan on my MBA starts running. Then I know MAIL is running. Why can't Mail quit when I tell it to? I'm running the latest version of Lion as of 5-7-2012.

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The purpose of this exercise is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login. Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
Note: If FileVault is enabled under Mac OS X 10.7 or later, you can’t boot in safe mode.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem(s)?
After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

I have to force quit every time I shut down the computer because Firefox gets hung up

I shut my Mac laptop down every night. When I do, I always have to 'force quit' because the application won't quit on its own. When I turn my computer on the next day, it offers to restart the previous session. I wonder why it is that the application won't quit on its own, or what website is causing the problem.

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Need to force quit programs to shut down or restart

I have an MDD G4 and a G5.
The G5 is smooth as silk– few problems.
I run Tiger on both and Adobe CS2. When I go to shut down or restart I almost always have to force quit the CS2 programs, (as well as other programs like Firefox, mail, text edit), on the G4, almost never on the G5.
I've repaired permissions, downloaded updates to the system, etc.
Could it be a hardware issue as I'm running the same software on my other machine?

I have had problems like this also. I have a Power Mac G5.
I tried to turn on my bluetooth mouse and it worked for a little bit then it froze. I had to restart with another mouse, since then my bluetooth will not open, it freezes when I try, the upper right corner is messed up, the clock does not appear anymore and when I move my mouse up there it shows a spinning icon??? Then when I go to shutdown it will not and shows a spinning icon in the middle of my screen. I have to force quit computer. Everything else seems to be working fine.
I redid my permissions. Any ideas anyone?????

When using office for mac or i studio after inserting several pictures, my computer locks up and the only way I can fix it is to do a force quit. Why does it do this and how I I get it fixed without a force quit?

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Are you using versions of the software that are compatible with the version of OS X you have installed? Very often such lockups are caused by application incompatibility.
The problem may also come from trying to use both sets of applications at the same time while not having enough RAM installed. Adding more RAM may fix the problem.
The problem can arise from corrupted support files such as preference files or Application Support files or corrupted cache files.
The image files you are using may also be corrupt thus causing the problem.
You might start with:
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.1 or higher are Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. Versions 1.5.1 or later are Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts had been significantly reduced in Tiger and Leopard. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or Lion and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc. Other utilities are also available such as Onyx, Lion Cache Cleaner, CockTail, for example.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. There is no confirmation that this version also works with Lion.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
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Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
iBackup
JaBack
Silver Keeper
MimMac
Retrospect
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SuperDuper!
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SyncTwoFolders
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
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The finder app on my Macbook is always open, no quit option and no force quit option. any ideas?

The finder app on my Macbook is always open. No "quit"option appears, and Force quit doesn't work to make it quit. Any ideas?
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There's absolutely no reason to quit it, just for curiosity maybe.
Most people think Finder runs the Mac GUI and that's why you can't quit it, but they are wrong. This is for Windows and Windows explorer. Mac is way stronger than Windows, thus doesn't need to run it's GUI on finder. There's no option to quit finder for pure symbolism, because Finder doesn't bother anyone and is the way the OS uses to manage files. However, if your curiosity is too strong, you can do this:
Enable Voice Feedback, Voice control, whatever you call it.
Put it to always work with a Keyword active.
Put focus on Finder and say "(Keyword), Quit this application".
Mac will quit finder. BOOM.
Nothing else will happens, the Mac will keep running and Finder won't start again until you (or some app) open it.
That was made on OS X Mountain Lion.

Why must I force quit (double press home and slide off) Mail on both my iPad and iPhone in order to have Mail access on my iMac on the same wifi network. Fetch is set to manual and my ISP is Charter.

Why must I force quit (double press home and slide off) Mail on both my iPad and iPhone in order to have Mail access on my iMac on the same wifi network. Fetch is set to manual and my ISP is Charter.

I don't know about the "3" but it's a POP account. I've always suspected that Charter isn't letting go using their mobile apps for iOS. Puzzling that it doesn't block the other way. That is if Mail is open on the iMac it doesn't block access to Mail on either the iPad or iPhone. I'm guessing it's their mobile apps that are the problem but they won't admit it to me.

Why Does Force Quit Rarely Ever Work?

I was a big fan Leopard. Before my upgrade to Snow Leopard, I had a very stable system that rarely had any problems. When I did have an issue, it was usually a problem with a Finder lockup up and my excitement about Snow Leopard was that the Finder was being re-written and would hopefully provide some additional stability. I have to say, I've been disappointed to see that isn't the case. I'm running 10.6.3 and am forced power off my machine several times a week because things lock up. That compares to maybe a couple times a year with Leopard.
I'm a long time Mac user and know the tricks to troubleshoot my system and have been slowly disabling things and not running certain software to try and pin down the cause. It looks like it's either Safari or iTunes but it's really difficult to tell for sure.
In any case, the reason for my post is my frustration with the Force Quit function that is rarely useful. When I get the the dreaded "spinning beach ball" the first thing I try to do is force quit the offending application. Right clicking on the icon in the dock usually freezes the dock. The Apple menu then won't pull down and if I'm able to use another utility I have in my menu bar to activate a Force Quit, it locks up after the menu drops down. This happens time and time again. My mouse moves and I can click on certain windows but am never able to regain control. Rarely (maybe 10% of the time) if something goes wrong and I get the "spinning beach ball," am I able to access the Force Quit function to kill the (application not responding). The rest of the time, I have no choice but to do a hard boot by powering off.
Why isn't Force Quit kind of like Activity Monitor but implemented as such a low level function that it can almost always be invoked (through a keyboard command or menu), even when the Finder has hung. It appears the problem is the Force Quit is tied to the Finder and when the Finder hangs because of another application (this also puzzles me) there is no was activate the Force Quit because until the offending application is killed, the Finder won't respond.
I'm sure over time, whatever is causing the freezes will be fixed and the stability of my system will return but Snow Leopard was supposed to be a more compact and finely tuned version of Leopard, re-written to support 64 bit and getting rid of most of the old Carbon system applications. The Finder was supposed to be a primary beneficiary of that effort and from my experience, it's less stable and provides no additional protection from locking when another application hangs.
As a Mac user, I don't expect to ever have to hard boot my machine to regain control. It risk corrupting my hard drive and the application flies that were left open. My Mac used to be a picture of stability but has gone done hill since moving to Snow Leopard. Kind of ironic given the pitch for Snow Leopard was decreased bloat and increased stability.

Overall, I'm sure the numbers are small but the point of these forums to is discuss real problems people are having.
I never denied that you're having problems, and tried to give you some suggestions and get more information to help you further. However, because I pointed out that your statements about being disappointed in SL are unfounded, you jump down my throat! Do you want to solve your problems or do you just want to whine about it?
Now...could something on my machine be corrupt?
Certainly.
Could one of my programs have a bug and be causing the issue?
Certainly.
Could be but generally when this has happened, only Apple software has been running
Are you certain? There are often little third-party background processes or kernel extensions that people forget about, since they don't show up on the Dock. This is one reason I've asked you about starting up in safe mode.
Somehow I fail to see how the OS is blameless. Because it should work but doesn't means something has gone wrong somewhere.
The OS cannot be blamed for bugs in third-party software or corruption from any number of possible causes, both of which are the most likely reasons for your problems. The bottom line is that there is no consistent pattern of issues with the current version of Snow Leopard that would indicate that bugs in the system are causing your problem. (Note that I'm not basing this solely on the behavior of my machine, but on the behavior of multiple machines that I have seen as well as reports on forums.)
I just wished Forced Quit was more reliable.
Force quit is reliable, unless you have a third-party app that is interfering with it at a very low level or a very serious problem. That's my third time saying that, and it's based on experience with probably more than 100 Macs in more than two decades, as a user, developer and system administrator.
Do you want to solve the problems that are behind your issues with force quit or not? You have not told us what you have tried. You have not responded to my questions about repairs to the hard drive, starting in safe mode or using another user account.

Microsoft Office 2004 (Word) unable to save files I have been running Office 2004 on my Intel iMac with Snow Leopard for some time and all of a sudden I cannot save a document. Word just stopped responding and I have to force quit. I can open Word and cr

Microsoft Office 2004 (Word) unable to save files
I have been running Office 2004 on my Intel iMac with Snow Leopard for some time and all of a sudden I cannot save a document. Word just stopped responding and I have to force quit. I can open Word and create a new document but I cannot save it. I reinstalled Word but that didn’t help. Then went to the Internet and found at least one other Mac user having the same problem which it suggests is caused by a recent Mac Security Update:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2004-macword/word-2004-wil l-not-open-or-save-documents/b04eb870-9b0d-4f3b-bb47-b122301e36f6
So I check for a new Mac Security Update and sure enough there was one. I downloaded it and now Word seems to be working, as it should. I can both open and save files. The only problem remaining is that when I open Word I get the following error message “An unexpected error occurred while trying to load the Microsoft Framework library”. I contacted Apple but they were unable to help.
How can I get rid of this error message?

Look, I realize you might have to get your machine working, so this is how you revert back.
Restore proceedure to pre-Security Update 2012-001 v 1.0 & v 1.1
#1 Backup your personal data off the machine.
Backup files off the computer (not to TimeMachine). If you don't have a external drive, get one and connect to the USB/Firewire port and simply drag and drop copy your User folder to the external drive, it will copy all your files. It's best to have two backups of your data off the machine when trying to restore.
Disconnect all drives now to prevent any mistakes from occuring.
#2 Reinstall OS X 10.6 from disk
Get out your 10.6 install disk and make sure it's clean and polished (very soft cloth and a bit of rubbing alcohol, no scratches) If your disk is borked, you'll have to order a new one from Apple with your serial number.
Hold c boot off the 10.6 disk (wired keyboard, internal optical drive), use Disk Utility First Aid to >Repair Disk of your internal drive (do not format or erase!!), Quit DU and simply re-install 10.6.
Note: Simply reinstalling 10.6 version from disk (without erasing the drive) only replaces 10.6.8 with 10.6.x and bundled Apple programs, won't touch your files (backup anyway) or most programs, unless they installed a kext file into OS X itself. (only a few on average do this)
#3 Update to 10.6.8 without Security Update 2012-001 v1.0 or v1.1
Reboot and log in, update to 10.6.8 via Software Update, but EXCLUDE THE Security Update 2012-001 by checkinig the details and unchecking the blue check box.
#4 Reinstall any non-working third party programs
When you reboot, make sure to reinstall any programs that require kext files installed into OS X, you'll know, they won't work when you launch them or hang for some reason as they are missing the part they installed into OS X.
If for some freakish reason you get gray screen at any time when booting (possible it might occur when you reinstall older programs), hold the shift key down while booting (Safe Mode, disables kext files) and update your installed third party software so it's compatible with 10.6.8.
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
That's it really.

I have Cs2 andOffice for Mac 2004 installed on an Os 10.6.3 system. This weekend my computer did an auto pdate to Os 10.6.8 and now I cannot save or print from any office or CS2 Apps. What happened. Office also freezes and I have to force quit.

I had Cs2 and Office for Mac 2004 installed on an OS 10.6.3 system. Worked fine. This weekend my computer did an auto update to OS 10.6.8 and now I cannot save or print from any office or CS2 Apps. What happened. Office also freezes and I have to force quit. Any advise. System or Software problem?

Bad timing. Reapply the security update:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1489
What happened is that version 1.0 of the security update was available for a bit of time this weekend, and that disabled Rosetta. Version 1.1 brought it back.

Why always necessary to Force Quite Micro Office?

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