Word is not letting me save to my Mac

Question

Word is not responding when I click on Save As in a Word document. If I try to quit the program, I get a dialog box about reviewing changes or discarding them, but no option to save the open documents. The file is not large at all - just two pages with no graphics. I created this document myself, and have not shared it, so there should not be any issue with permissions. The iOS is up to date, and I assume I am using the latest version of Word since I have an Office 365 subscription. What gives?

Answer 1

Hi,

I suggest you try to reset Word for Mac, please follow these steps:

Quit all Office applications.

Open Finder and go to ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates, move Normal.dotm to Desktop.

Go to ~/Library/Preferences, locate the files com.microsoft.Word.plist and com.microsoft.Office.plist, move them to the Desktop (Word will rebuild them).

Restart Mac and the application.

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