2007 Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple

Fixing Office

Although the Microsoft Office programs are robust programs, once in a while things can go wrong. Sometimes a problem might be severe enough to cause your computer to crash—that is, to shut down. This type of problem might be caused by a program or a support file on your hard disk being corrupted, or there might be something wrong with your computer itself. When any Office component isn’t working properly, you can run a series of diagnostic tests to find out what’s wrong and, usually, learn how to fix the problem, unless Office fixes it automatically.

Run the Diagnostics

1. Close any running programs except for a single blank Word, Excel, ...