For the longest time I had this problem with MS Word 2007
crashing when exiting.
I did what I thought were the normal things. The first thing
is I removed all the templates. That didn’t work. Then of course, I uninstalled
it and reinstalled it. That didn’t work either. I finally found the solution to
my problem. It was a corrupt registry entry. I found the solution here.
If you have a similar problem I would suggest that you first
start with the templates since templates are usually the cause of this type of
problems.
In Word 2007 to find the template directory do the
following:
1)
Click the Microsoft Office Button (Big round
button on the top left corner)
2)
Click Word Options. You will find all the way at
the bottom of the dialog (next to the Exit Word)
3)
On the next dialog that opens, click on Advance
from the left hand side navigation.
4)
On the right hand side scrolled all the way to
the bottom. You will see a section titled “General” which is the second to last
section.
5)
Click on the “File Locations…” button. You will
see where your templates are located.
6)
Close Word and either rename the templates in
the directory(ies) or copy them to a different location
7)
Now restart Word and see if that fixes your
problem.
If your problem is not fixed, then try the URL above for the
registry entry fix.