Word freezing on 'save'

Word (Mircrosoft Word 2004 - V 11.3.8) froze whenever I tried to save and the only way out was to force quit. I found a post describing a similar problem and learned that Apple is aware of the problem that developed after downloading the latest Security Update. A link to another download was provided by a reader who suggested a 'fix' - with no guarantees, of course (RosettaFix_V3). I downloaded and installed the RosettaFix and it seems to have solved the problem.
My question is this: Since Apple is aware of the problem, I am assuming an update to fix the problem will be available in the future. When it is, should I delete the RosettaFix_V3 before installing the update/fix that Apple provides?

BTW, my version of Word '04 is at 11.6.6. You might consider updating your Office apps.

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Microsoft Word won't save

Recently when I have tried to save documents in Word it has been telling me "Word is connecting to a printer." It tries to connect remotely, even if I have it hooked directly into my printer. Then Word freezes and I have to force quit, losing my document. I have resorted to copying the document into an email and sending it to myself just so I have a copy of what I wrote. I'm in law school and my notes are my life. I have no idea how to fix this problem, or why Word insists on connecting to a printer when all I want to do is save the document.

Actually, i've had this problem too for about 3 months now...
but it doesn't just apply to word, when this happens to word, i can't save ANYTHING (e.g. TextEdit, PS, etc)
I think this may be more Mac OS X related?

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.

What's happening when Word opens and saves a document?

Hello,
I got very unspecific question, but I don't know where to start. I have an open xml document which gets generated by a third party tool. If I open the document using open xml sdk it looks VERY different from how it looks like when I opened and saved it before
using Word 2013.
I'm trying to get an understanding on whats Word doing! From what I've seen it's doing some remodelling on the xml file, since it looks very different (other and way more descendants than before) and I would like to achieve the same thing using open xml.
Although this might be already to much information: The generated word documents contains html code with links to pictures. After Word has touched the file the picture is inside a drawing element, before it's not but in Word both versions look the same.
I'm thankful for any help you can give me.
Cheers Andreas
Regards Andreas MCPD SharePoint 2010. Please remember to mark your question as "answered"/"Vote helpful" if this solves/helps your problem.

Hi Cheers Andreas,
>> If I open the document using open xml SDK it looks VERY different from how it looks like when I opened and saved it before using Word 201
>> What's happening when Word opens and saves a document?
This forum is discussing about Open XML developing. This is not exactly an OpenXML SDK questions. To be frank, I do not know exactly what Word opens and saves a documents either (this is the implementation details of the product).
If you are interested on it, the forum below might be more appropriate for you:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=os_binaryfile
>> From what I've seen it's doing some remodelling on the xml file, since it looks very different (other and way more descendants than before) and I would like to achieve the same thing using open xml.
What do you mean by “other and way more descendants”? Do you mean that you want to add new nodes in the xml document? In my option, different objects in word have different nodes. You could refer the link below for more information about Word processing.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/cc850833.aspx
If you have issues about OpenXML SDK, since it is a new issue which is different from your original issue, I suggest you post a new thread for the new issue in this forum. Then there would be more community members to discuss the question.
Best Regards,
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CS6 Freezing on Save Project

When I try to save a project in CS6, Premiere displays the Save Project dialogue and freezes completely. The progress bar does not begin to move. If I click cancel, I get the beach ball. The only way to get out is to Force Quit. Also, if I let that it remain in the frozen state for more than a few minutes, it grinds my entire system to a halt with hard drive read/writes and eventually system memory errors (which I've never seen before). I have 8 gigs of RAM and few things running. It also bizarrely knocked out my system sound, which has not returned after a restart. The volume speaker icon is now grayed out (different from muted) with no fix that I can find. The sound thing could be a coincidence, but that seems unlikely.
The project I've been playing with was started in CS5.5. It's a simple project, just a demo reel that I figured would be a good thing to use to test out CS6. It has one AE comp, but nothing crazy. So I opened it in CS6. It converted, and I saved it to a new location. I made a few adjustments and saved it again without a problem. The auto save was also working.
I opened another project from 5.5, also no problems, although I didn't really make any changes.
When I opened the first project again, everything seemed fine until an auto save which froze as described.
I Forced Quit and reopened the project. As soon as I hit save I got the same freeze. I figured some kind of corruption had set into that project file. So I started over with the original CS5.5 project file again. I was able to save it, this time with incremental file names, and make the same changes.
After a quit and relaunch, I opened the project and again couldn't save. That was the case for every one of my incremental saves. I've now gone through this cycle a lot trying to figure it out. The only project I can open and save is the original CS5.5 project file, but if I make any changes and then close the project and come back to it, the freeze on save happens every time.
I'm not particularly concerned about the reel project, but the other project I'm working on is a client piece that I started in 5.5. I'm pretty terrified this will happen to that project as well. I'll soon find out as I need to move forward with it.
I'm psyched about CS6. I like what I've seen briefly, but this is obviously disastrous.
Various error messages have also popped up. Here they are:
Premiere Pro has encountered an error.
[/Volumes/BuildDisk/builds/mightykilt/PremierePro/UIFramework/Make/Mac/../../Src/Workspace .cpp-209]
Premiere Pro has encountered an error.
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down. We will attempt to save your current project.
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I tried everything to fix the muted audio. This is what worked, You have to run the script every time you restart your computer. Save it to your dock for easy access.
1. Open Utility.
2. Open Applescript Editor.
3. Copy the following and paste it at the top half of the editor (copy everything below with the quotes in place):
do shell script "launchctl stop com.apple.audio.coreaudiod" password "your_password" with administrator privileges
4. Replace "your_password" with your login password. For example if your login password is ILOVEMYSON2011 then it should look like this...
do shell script "launchctl stop com.apple.audio.coreaudiod" password "ILOVEMYSON2011" with administrator privileges
5. Now go to File ---> Save As (in the Applescript Editor on the Menu Bar)
After "Save As" choose a name for the file. I called mine "AudioFix"
Under "File Format" choose "Application."
Save it to your Applications (or wherever you like) and drag it to your dock.
Run it whenever you restart your computer. If your problem is the same as mine, the volume indicator will pop on within a few seconds or up to a half a minute after you run the script.
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Word 2008 doc saves into multiple docs instead of one PDF

I have installed Acrobat 9 Pro and am trying to print a Word 2008 doc to a PDF. Instead of creating and saving as one document it splits it into several whenever the page set up changes from profile to landsacape or vice versa. This happens whether I use the PDF print button or the Adobe Printer option. Any advice would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers.

I am afraid to break the news to you, this has been an on going problem with Acrobat converting Word File to PDF. Its been a problem from the get go. Adobe says, its Microsoft's Problem. Microsoft says its Adobe Problem, they both blame Apple. Problem, is Apple licenses the PDF subsystem used OSX since day one from Adobe; and, the problem existed in OS9 which didn't use PDF as the the underlying print/display engine, which tends to point the finger to Adobe. Another thing point to its adobe's problem, is that Microsoft has been waiting patiently for adobe to fix the problem since day one about 10-15 years, So they desided in Office 2008 to use their own built in Converter for PDF. This reduces the problem of breaking the pdf up only if you have a shift orientation. The problem lies in Adobe either doesn't know how or can't figure out how, or doesn't want to be bothered with finding out how microsoft Page and Section breaks work. They are unique to Microsoft.
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repeat 1-3 with next section
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There is no way around this problem other than not using page and section breaks and not using charts or items that require viewing in Landscape orientation. Which may or may not be realistic.
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I just stared using Pages and I can't seem to be able to bring a Word document into Pages; it says that I don't have "access privileges or my document is corrupted." I know it isn't corrupted; I even tried creating a new document, (in Word) just to be sure. I also tried what the Help in Pages suggested to save the Word document as "save as" Pages, but that dosen't show as an option. I am missing something?

Recently i have tried documents between word and pages. In Ms office for Mac, i did not see export to pages option. May be because it is not there. But in Pages i have seen couple of options for export (pdf, word, html, rtf etc). I was able to successfully export pages document containing text and photos to word. I must admit that when i exported to word, the photos and text got disturbed and even the fonts got changed. i had to set it right again in word. But when i exported from Pages to PDF, it was just like what it is in Pages.
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HT5071 Can I create a book using the IBooks Author word processing software, save it as a PDF, then have it professionally printed by an offset press to sale in brick and mortar stores? If so, is this procedure free me from any IBooks restrictions?

Can I create a book using the IBooks Author word processing software, save it as a PDF, then have it professionally printed on an offset press to sale in brick and mortar stores? If so, is this procedure free from any IBooks restrictions?

It's your content, under your control.
If you output as an .ibooks file, and you want to sell it, the store is the only outlet, otherwise, you can do as you wish.

Muse 2014.1.1.6 Freezes on Save and Re-Opening Document

I was editing and removing Paragraph Styles. Then I edited text with "local" styling (bolded and italicized type -- didn't see the need make a Character Style for that). I did a "Save." Then it freezes, will not close or quit. Force Quit necessary.
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When attempting to "save as" a word document and selecting micrsoft word as the "save as type", it no longer will save it in a word icon document, the icon is just a blank document symbol and thus cannot email this document as before.

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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 1 octobre 2011 18:00:23
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Hello
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2013 word crashes when "save as" .Word freezes "not responding after a few minutes.

2013 word crashes when using the "save as" command. It does save the document but crashes. After working for 3 minutes or so on a document the programme will stop running with the screen frozen. Have to use the windows task manager to close.
Any ideas? Very disappointed as I have already also spent a day trying to get outlook to work using all the advice on these forums. Just not impressed. I'm I going to have the same issues with excel?

Hi,
In regarding of the issue, it may be caused some reason, let's try to narrow down the root cause with the following methods:
1.Try disable all the add-ins to see if this behavior could be caused by the 3rd-party add-ins, if this behavior won't occur with all the add-ins disabled, we can enable them one by one to find out which one might cause the issue.
2.Try repair your Office as a quick fix
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safe mode to see if this behavior will still occur, if this behaivor won't occur in safe mode, the behavior might be caused by certain items that are loaded with Word.
4.Try configure Windows in
clean boot mode to check if this behavior could be caused by the 3rd-party services, if this behavior won't occur in clean boot mode, try follow the instructions in the
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
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We could try to Delete the Word Data registry subkey to test.please try follow the instructions in the following support article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541
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