May I suggest working through the measures at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm after first
attending to the problems created by the crashes
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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HW wrote:
I workout of my home doing medical transcription. First, on spell
check I can correct a word,maybe two, and then the word stays red
and I canot correct it w/o getting out (cntr/alt/del) and starting
the spell check again and of course it doesn't remember what I've
already put in the dictionary. I use auto text quite a bit and it
seems to be a problem as well.

This is the THIRD computer I've had (purchased two wks ago) as well as
trying my husband's, w/the same problem. The spell check is an issue
in my husband's as well. I have re-created all new documents in the
last two computers, as well as my husbands. This is making me nuts.

Please advise

Also, I am crashing a great deal while in a word document (only,
never any other program, and not in spell check) stating "Microsoft
has encountered a problem...and must close". this is a