Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Word For Mac Quitting Due to Memory Leak
Word crashes after about 1 day's use, every time. I can see that it is being killed by my Mac due to a memory leak (Activity Monitor shows the memory usage of Word growing steadily from about 500M to 10G at which point my Mac presumably kills it). I…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
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Word for Mac backspace fails
On Word for Mac, the Delete key has backspace function. But in a text I'm editing, it fails sometimes, in particular it won't move a completed line partially upward to finished the partly empty line of continuous text above. What's the solution?
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-08T07:45:15.9066667+00:00
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Thomas Bartlett
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edited a comment 2026-04-09T13:18:57.0233333+00:00
Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP
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On my mac, docs are now opening in read only mode
On my mac, docs are opening in read only mode, and do not respond, even though when I do control I for information and set all users to read and write. When I open the doc it is still read only. It keeps doing this
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-08T10:45:16+00:00
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Steve Fierberg
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commented 2026-04-08T11:47:11.83+00:00
John Jefferson Doyon
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How to give word permission to use my iMac microphone
"Word" is not listed under my microphone to give it permission so I can dictate and I dont' know how to put it on the list on my iMac
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-07T00:09:10.4266667+00:00
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Gay Fortier
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commented 2026-04-08T06:32:48.8533333+00:00
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Kai-H
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Suddenly cannot edit a Word document
I've been working on a document for months, and suddenly I cannot highlight sections in order to move sections around. I am the only author. Could I have inadvertently clicked something to make it "read only" or removed my editing privileges?…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-08T00:08:48.3466667+00:00
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Lee Stewart
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answered 2026-04-08T00:09:00.51+00:00
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What does this strange sybol and icon mean on my Desktop and/or Word document?
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-07T16:37:59.8066667+00:00
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James Stallings
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answered 2026-04-07T16:52:21.18+00:00
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Marcin Policht
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Word is ignoring page setup information
I have tried the following: Re-specifying A4 in page setup dialog and in Viwe>Documents Deleting Normal.dotm Restarting Word Rebooting computer Updating MacOS Updating print driver Deleting full 365 and reinstalling. Running out of options...
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-07T11:31:43.54+00:00
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Rob Scott
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commented 2026-04-07T16:27:41.1266667+00:00
Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP
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Problem with Word
I can't edit old Word documents or make new ones - how can I fix this?
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-07T09:27:27.86+00:00
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Kevin Maxwell
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commented 2026-04-07T10:09:53.6333333+00:00
John Jefferson Doyon
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Word for Mac Keeps Quitting
About a week ago, Word for Mac began terminating. I cannot recreate the reasons why it does this. I'll be in the middle of typing and suddenly, it quits. What's unusual is that I don't get the usual Mac OS dialog box indicating that a program suddenly…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-02-17T01:03:07.92+00:00
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Steven Kaufman
10
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commented 2026-04-07T06:58:31.6733333+00:00
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Ben L
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Since my macOS 26.3.1 update, I have been unable to save as PDF's or print any .docx files.
Since my macOS 26.3.1 update, I have been unable to save as PDF's or print any .docx files.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-03-13T23:51:49.78+00:00
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Timm Judas
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commented 2026-04-06T13:27:47.5733333+00:00
Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP
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Family member cannot get Word update but all others are updated like Powerpoint etc.
Family member has received update to all parts of Microsoft 365 except for Word, which says that it requires upgrade. She formerly had a personal account and for a few years has been on my family account. How does she get the current version of Word…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-03T22:24:08.6233333+00:00
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Gary Lindgren
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answered 2026-04-04T23:58:38.55+00:00
Stefan Blom
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Greek Automatic Hyphenation not working in Word 2024 for Mac (M4 Chip)
Ι recently purchased a retail license for Office Home & Business 2024 to use on my new MacBook M4. While Greek spelling tools work fine, the "Automatic Hyphenation" feature is completely non-functional. When I select it, no hyphens appear,…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
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why am i no longer able to save my files
I have been using your software for years. Today for some reason I can access my files but when I try to save them after updating them, the save is not available. It will not let me save my files. S
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-03T16:10:45.17+00:00
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Marilyn McCrate
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answered 2026-04-03T17:05:46.41+00:00
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Sumit D - IA
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Word for Mac
I am unable to create a new Word document on Mac. My subscription is active.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-03T02:39:35.5033333+00:00
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Anne Davies
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answered 2026-04-03T15:25:41.7066667+00:00
Gunasekar N
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I can't activate Word on my I Mac
I was charged for Microsoft 365 Personal on 20 January 2026 but I have not been able to 'Activate' Word on my I Mac although I tried lots of times and ways.. Please help me .
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-03-20T21:03:20.4033333+00:00
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Charles Hutchins
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edited a comment 2026-04-03T14:57:45.5933333+00:00
Stefan Blom
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MS Word is read-only and will not let me type anything into a doc
Need to get MS Word to let me type again, I can read docs but cannot type into any existing or new docs. I have MS Office 365 Personal
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-02T00:36:44.6733333+00:00
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sinksea sinksea
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edited a comment 2026-04-02T23:26:09.13+00:00
Manoel Barros
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TAHOE update on Mac spellcheck and grammar not working
I updated my Macbook to TAHOE this week. Now, my spelling and grammar is not being corrected while typing nor are the errors being tagged.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-02T14:34:33.72+00:00
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Dari Rowen
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commented 2026-04-02T21:22:51.0033333+00:00
Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP
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Why has Word 2024 made all my documents read only?
I recently purchased and installed Office 2024 and I cannot edit any of my existing Word documents. I do not have access to Properties under File. It is grey. I've checked that I do have read and write permission.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-01T02:42:13.7533333+00:00
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Holly Murray
25
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accepted 2026-04-02T02:23:04.37+00:00
Holly Murray
25
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Word for Mac: “Location Cannot Be Determined” and Save Loop When Using iCloud Drive (Optimize Mac Storage On)I recently spent several frustrating days troubleshooting a Word for Mac save-loop problem and wanted to share what I found, since it may help oth
About this post: I’m sharing this detailed account to help both users and engineers understand and reproduce a persistent Word-for-Mac save-loop issue that occurs when using iCloud Drive with “Optimize Mac Storage” enabled. I recently spent several…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2025-10-16T17:38:12.83+00:00
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Donald Weaver
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commented 2026-04-01T18:03:43.55+00:00
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Matthew Turner
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document could be saved
The save failed due to out of memory or disk space. will not save doc on word
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,308 questions
asked 2026-04-01T02:33:03.03+00:00
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Gwen Thomas
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answered 2026-04-01T03:20:38.2366667+00:00
Sumit D - IA
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