I am using Microsoft Office, Word 2010 for MAC. Every time I am working on a somewhat long document (5-20 pages) it tends to freeze every 10-15 minutes. It usually happens when I am copying and pasting something. I get the little rainbow wheel saying it is not responding. How to Force Quit an Application on a Mac. This wikiHow teaches you how to quit an application that has stopped responding on your Mac. Open the Apple menu. It's the black Apple on icon in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Hello I've had my macbook pro for about 8 months now and it works fine but today I can't open any of my microsoft applications except for messenger, which I never use. Everything else is working fine and it just started this today. Do I need to re-install the software? When I click on the icons they just hop up once and then nothing.
I've tried opening it through my word files and that doesn't work. I've done the whole restart, check for software update stuff and it still doesn't work. I have tech support here on campus but they aren't open on the weekends and I really need word. I only have 2 GB of memory and a lot of files, but I've deleted everything I can spare.
Hi, elfpower, and welcome to Apple Discussions. I only have 2 GB of memory and a lot of files, but I've deleted everything I can spare. If you mean you only have 2GB of free hard disk space available, that's your problem. Memory is something quite different, and 2GB of memory is just fine. Your operating system needs a minimum of 5-6GB of free space on your hard drive at all times for its own temporary files. Optimally, you should try to keep at least 8-10GB available on the hard drive. So if you're down to only 2GB now, you're going to have to delete an absolute minimum of 3-4 GB, and preferably more, of data from the drive to regain the use of the computer for ordinary purposes.
The easiest way to do that without actually losing data is to buy an external hard drive and copy data onto it, then delete some of the duplicated data from the internal drive. You probably don't have enough room on the internal drive right now to be able to burn a CD or DVD, so copying data to those types of media isn't an option now.
With a 100GB HD, you should have enough free space. After you have done a permissions repair, you may try to do an office database maintenance. To do this, quit all office programs. Open your applications folder, then open MS Office 2008. Open the 'Office' folder and go to 'Microsoft Database Utility'.
Double click on it. If you like to do things stepwise, run 'verify database'. If you like to go directly for the gusto, click on 'Rebuild database' and let it run. See what happens. If this fails, then you can UNINSTALL your version of MS Office by opening the 'additional tools' folder in MS Office 2008' and running 'Remove Office'. This will allow you to re-use the same ID and license without wasting one. Apple Footer.
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