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Title: Word - Help!
Post by: Sheilbh on January 15, 2012, 10:56:05 PM
MS Word has stopped saving.

When I try to save, save as or close the document down and choose to save it just doesn't work.  It looks like nothing's happening.

Anyone know what's up?

Edit:  Other bits of Office are working fine.
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: derspiess on January 16, 2012, 10:33:22 AM
Sorry to have to ask, but have you rebooted your PC?  If that doesn't do the trick, I'd uninstall & then reinstall Word.  And is this happening with any document, or just one you happen to be working with?
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: mongers on January 16, 2012, 02:00:23 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 15, 2012, 10:56:05 PM
MS Word has stopped saving.

When I try to save, save as or close the document down and choose to save it just doesn't work.  It looks like nothing's happening.

Anyone know what's up?

Edit:  Other bits of Office are working fine.

AI - its become a critic ?  :unsure:
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: Sheilbh on January 16, 2012, 03:01:26 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 16, 2012, 10:33:22 AM
Sorry to have to ask, but have you rebooted your PC?  If that doesn't do the trick, I'd uninstall & then reinstall Word.  And is this happening with any document, or just one you happen to be working with?
Yeah I've rebooted a few times.  I tried turning off autosave as well.  It's happening to all word documents.  I'll probably have to re-install when I get back home tomorrow <_<
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: Scipio on January 16, 2012, 07:05:01 PM
I recommend Open Office.
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: garbon on January 17, 2012, 05:32:42 PM
Quote from: Scipio on January 16, 2012, 07:05:01 PM
I recommend Open Office.

:x

On topic, look up "word won't save" in google. Seems to be a lot of different suggestions.
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: Josquius on January 17, 2012, 06:52:50 PM
Could be so many things. Sounds so awfully specific I am tempted to yell virus but...yeah, reinstall
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: Sheilbh on January 18, 2012, 04:31:20 AM
Quote from: garbon on January 17, 2012, 05:32:42 PMOn topic, look up "word won't save" in google. Seems to be a lot of different suggestions.
None of the easy suggestions helped, so I asked here.  I'm not going to start rummaging around system files to fix it - or following the other, more complex solutions - if I don't know what's wrong.

Annoying though :(
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: garbon on January 18, 2012, 01:01:09 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 18, 2012, 04:31:20 AM
Quote from: garbon on January 17, 2012, 05:32:42 PMOn topic, look up "word won't save" in google. Seems to be a lot of different suggestions.
None of the easy suggestions helped, so I asked here.  I'm not going to start rummaging around system files to fix it - or following the other, more complex solutions - if I don't know what's wrong.

Annoying though :(

Ah yes, then I'd go with re-install if you can.
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: Admiral Yi on January 18, 2012, 05:07:56 PM
How do you know it's not saving?

Have you tried opening up the (presumably unsaved) file to see if your changes took?
Title: Re: Word - Help!
Post by: szmik on January 28, 2012, 02:46:04 PM
Have you tried saving using different format?