Office 2008 for Mac - Word crashes Update: The solution proposed by Enzo_Vincenzo ET Final Solution to the crash of Word 2008 Mac with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 (just inserted, in English, also on MacTopia Microsoft Word 2008). First, make sure you have removed any residue and preferences of earlier versions of Office. The problem may result either from errors in Leopard Permissions and / or package containing the grammar and is located in "/ Applications / Microsoft Office Applications 2008/Office/Shared / ProofingTools /"). It 's true, as some suggest, that it is enough to remove the package' ItalianGrammar.proofingtool 'from "Microsoft Office Applications 2008/Office/Shared / ProofingTools /" and Word 2008 will not hang at startup more ... Doing so, however ... lose all power to use the grammar! Explanation Immediately after installing Office 2008, if we examine the permissions of the folders and files in "Microsoft Office 2008" Serving the Finder's Inspector (= Apple key + I), we see that they are _unknown ( -User)) and admin (the Group). Only two files, however, and have system admin permissions (Which they are, it can be seen from below). However, if you examine the folder of Office 2008 using Terminal and the command "ls-algo" (without the quotes, of course) you will notice that your Office installation enter the following permissions to every file and folder Applications: 503 as a user and admin which group. Insert 503 is probably different than writing _unknown (exactly what it appears with Inspector) as I tried to do in one of several attempts. Sorry if I do not explain much but not a great expert on UNIX and Leopard has completely changed the way in which, until now, Mac OS X handled the permits (so-called UNIX privileges). From here, after a very thorough examination on each something is installed from Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, are installing in my Leopard disc with a very clear I'm back in the disc where it crashed and Word 2008 I performed the following procedures. 1) In Terminal (note terminal which is contained in / Applications / Utilities) type: sudo chown-vR 503: admin / Applications / Microsoft \\ Office \\ 2008 / and press the Enter key (Enter) 2) Terminal will ask for the password administrator. Type the password calmly ee press the Enter key (Enter) Note that while you type the password in terminal will not see anything happen and this is normal. 3) Copy the command to the next line, to be sudo to plist and paste it into Terminal: sudo chown-vR root: admin / Applications / Microsoft \\ Office \\ 2008 \\ Office \\ OfficePID.plist / Applications / Microsoft \\ Office \\ 2008 \\ Office \\ SetupInfo.plist and then press the Enter key (Enter). 4) Also in terminal write, exactly (or copy and paste the command below): -VFR rm ~ / Library / Preferences / com.microsoft .* and press the Enter key (Enter) 5) write (or copy and paste): rm-VFR ~ / Library / Preferences / Microsoft and press the Enter key (Enter) ATTENTION NOW because I suspect that this is my big secret because, in the search for and delete preferences related to Microsoft, following escapes!! to be deleted the profile file of the grammar checker that is located, also, in Tua_Home / Library / Preferences. 6) Therefore, always being in terminal (you do first, and if you are careful, you are wrong even less than that from the Finder ...), type: -VFR rm ~ / Library / Preferences / *. grammar.profiles and press the Enter key (Enter). Note that the asterisk indicates the name of the language. For us Italians, therefore, the command should be -VFR rm ~ / Library / Preferences / italian.grammar.profiles but I would rather suggest you to write exactly as in step 6) because it could happen Word to create preferences files for other languages \u200b\u200bwhere grammar, its options, we choose to change the language to correct, perhaps a letter to send to friends abroad. I do not know, furthermore, to Word, occasionally, you may be planning to create them all ... not forget that it is, nonetheless, a production microsoft ... ;-) NOTE for those who do not know how to write ~ sign and want to learn. The sign ~ Tilde said, is important in UNIX systems because it is the Home User. to get with the Italian keyboard, simply press the Alt / Option and while you hold down, press the number 5. But it must be the number 5 located above the keyboard, along with the% sign and, instead, the number 5 on the right, the numeric keypad! Hello everyone Enzo_Vincenzo ET ---------------------------------------- ------------------ As you may have experienced if you have tried Office 2008, Word tends to crash when opened. Looking at the log of the crash is well understood that the problem is just the file where you saved the Italian grammar:
Thread 0 crashed: # 1 0x90b6e36b in _signgam + 0x909D4B6B (libSystem.B.dylib + 0x0004036b) # 2 0x90b67dd7 + 0x909CE5D7 _signgam in (libSystem.B.dylib + 0x00039dd7)
# 3 0x28174607 in _TRACE_add + 0x000000A5 ( ItalianGrammar + 0x00002607)
# 4 0x2817468d in _TRACE_adds + 0x0000002E ( ItalianGrammar + 0x0000268d)
# 5 0x28192bbe in _EXTRAWORDS_createfrommemory + 0x000000AD (ItalianGrammar + 0x00020bbe)
# 6 0x281ec34d in GramIt::GramOpenMdt(FSRef*, unsigned short*, unsigned short, FSRef*) + 0x000004AB (ItalianGrammar + 0x0007a34d)
# 7 0x281f2d82 in _GramOpenMdt + 0x00000068 (ItalianGrammar + 0x00080d82)
# 8 0x015dae76 in _McpIGetNewFile + 0x00000302 (MicrosoftComponentPlugin + 0x00064e76)
# 9 0x015daee0 in _McpIGetNewFile + 0x0000036C (MicrosoftComponentPlugin + 0x00064ee0) # 10 0x00000085 0x015dbc2d in _ProofOpenGrammarSession + (+ MicrosoftComponentPlugin 0x00065c2d)
After some tests I found the offending file and was able to run Word. The price is the lack of Italian grammar, and self-correction and suggestions still work. It's your choice: wait for the release of a patch from Microsoft (?!?!?) or try this "patch". The operations necessary to solve the problem are: 1) Go to the folder
Username / Applications / Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Shared Applications / Proofing Tools / If your Office installation folder is not standard, replaced
Username / Applications / Microsoft Office 2008 / with the path of your folder. 2) Copy the file
ItalianGrammar.proofingtool in a safe folder. In the Microsoft case deigned to release a patch, you must copy it in its source folder and then apply any "cure". 3) Delete the file
ItalianGrammar.proofingtool from its source folder. 4) Now Word should (and I stress should
) function. Fulcrum