Microsoft word keeps freezing and crashing

#Microsoft word keeps freezing and crashing windows#

IвЂ™m afraid, however,В that I am one of those вЂњtouchy, feely typesвЂќ who enjoys getting an email with colored fonts, embedded images,В or stylized text from time to time. If you donвЂ™t mind reading all of your emailВ messagesВ minus the formatting, this may be a good, easyВ solution for you.

Under the Read as Plain Text section, click on the вЂњ Read all standard mail in plain textвЂќ checkbox.

On the left side of the dialog box, click on E-mail Security.

On theВ right side of the dialog box, click on the Trust Center SettingsвЂ¦ button.

On the left side of the dialog box, click on Trust Center.

Short Term Solution #1:Configure Outlook 2010 to display all messages that you open in plain text. Due to compatibility issues, the Office 2010 applicationsВ tend to freeze up when dealing withВ PostScript Type 1В fonts (especially Helvetica and Times). Probable Cause of the Above Listed Problems:You are trying to work with a document that uses one of the Adobe Postscript TypeВ 1 fonts, and the font isВ installed on your computer. Related Problem: You are unable to use the вЂњsave as pdfвЂќВ feature in some applications. Related Problem: Microsoft Word 2010 freezes and then restartsВ when you attempt to use certain fonts. You are unable to open these email messages without Outlook freezing. The dialog box then disappears and the application restarts.

#Microsoft word keeps freezing and crashing windows#

After it freezes, you see a dialog box that informs you thatВ Microsoft Outlook has stopped working and that Windows is looking for a solution to the problem. Problem: Outlook 2010 freezes when you attempt to open certain email messages. I wonвЂ™t bore you with all the details of my troubleshooting sessions, but IВ will summarize my findings below and hope that this will help you to understand and deal with the issues. Consequently, it took me a bit of timeВ toВ wade through all of the informationВ in the forums and blogsВ and then toВ experiment withВ possible solutions. Now,В five months after the application became available for retail and online purchase,В the forums and blogs are filled with crash reports from frustrated Outlook 2010 users, and there are lots of confusing theories about what is causing the problem.

At that time, I couldnвЂ™t find anything about it online, and since it only happened occasionally and usually only when an email was linked to a commercial website (or so I thought at the time), I was able to ignore the problem for a while longer. I remember searching for information about the problem in June of 2010. When several of my colleagues started using Outlook 2010 and began complaining about their Outlook crashes, I knew that I needed to do some research. I soon realized that the same thingВ was happening on my laptop, my home computer, and onВ the computers in ourВ labs at IU. I thought that maybe I was the only one who was having this problem and that it was happening because of the way my work computer was configured. When this first started happening to me, the application had just been released. I have been using Outlook 2010 for over 6 months now and ever since I first installed it on my computer, it has been freezing and then restarting whenever I attempt to openВ certain incoming messages. Are you using Outlook 2010? Does the application freeze up and restart every time you attempt to open certain email messages? Are you frustrated? Are you thinking about uninstalling Outlook 2010 and reinstalling Outlook 2007? If so, read onвЂ¦