Exc Bad Access Word For Mac

Word for Mac amiright?

Long-time OSX users who use Microsoft Office just cringed. The lot of you. I know you did.

Program received signal EXCBADACCESS, Could not access memory. I'm using Mac OS X 10.8, gdb to debug, and Apple LLVM version 4.2 (based on LLVM 3.2svn) to compile. Famous last words 'I know there shouldn't be one'.

For those who didn’t, here’s the back story:

A few years ago Apple released OSX Mavericks. This went well. But if you updated MS Office too, it didn’t go well. If there was any trace of Office 2008 left, you got the infamous “updating font menu EXC_BAD_ACCESS” crash.

Immediately on startup.

Open any Office app. Word, Excel, Outlook, doesn’t matter. Within three seconds of starting, it crashed. Before you even got past the loading screen.

The solution was moderately simple – delete all traces of Office from ~/Library and /Library. All the config files, all the everything. You could supposedly get away with just deleting the default template files.

“Fuck it, I’ll just use LibreOffice“

And for two years life was good. Well, life was passable. LibreOffice is great and all, and Apple’s Pages is awesome, but when you’re dealing with publishers and editors and you have tens of people touching the same .doc or .docx file …

Well, LibreOffice becomes a steaming pile of turd. And slow. Track and show changes always made me feel like I was back in the late 1990’s working on a computer with a 166MHz processor and 16MB of memory.

On Tuesday life was no longer good. A file came back from the editors and neither LibreOffice nor Pages would open it. You could click on the images, you knew they were there, but they were invisible.

Fuck.

So I pirated me some MS Office for Mac.

And it crashed. Updating font menu. EXC_BAD_ACCES. Boom.

Deleting all config files from everywhere didn’t work. Rebooting my machine didn’t work. Nothing worked.

Pirated version. Obviously.

140€ and two hours of deleting absolutely everything yet again later aaaaaaand … nope.

Crash. EXC_BAD_ACCESS. Boom.

By this point, I had spent hours trying to get Word to work. I have seen every single article and official answer on the internet. Just delete your preferences, all will be fine.

Glabels alternatives for mac pro. But it wasn’t fine!

As a last desperate measure, I created a new user account just to try Word in.

It worked. Without a hitch. Started up. Was fast. Flawless.

#$%!#@$!@~#&^*

HOW!?

An hour of Googling later I came across a forum thread for school system administrators. Just a month old. Who knew people still used forums.

But a solution they did find!

If you run any of Adobe’s CS6 software before running any MS Office software, the font cache goes weird and Word will crash.

That’s right. When you start a new account. You have to run Office apps before running CS6 apps.

ðŸ˜x90

O.o

o.O

Wat!?

But I deleted ~/Library/Fonts and Word worked! I can edit documents like a human being!

Seriously, Word impressed me. It’s smooth, it’s fast, it’s got a distraction-free mode. It’s amazing. Never going back to LibreOffice.

But now I’m too afraid to try running Photoshop.

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EXC_BAD_ACCESS Error

This is a complicated error with several options to fix. It could be a simple fix of deleting preference files to repairing your drive. This error is for multiple Office applications thus adding to the confusion over what is causing the error.

• If you have windows in full screen mode, exit out of full screen mode in any Word document.
• Check for database corruption in Entourage or Outlook Identity.

Eliminate your Identity first by creating a new Identity. Set the new identity as default and open.

If a new identity opens the problem is corruption in your identity. You need to rebuild.

If a new identity fails to open, then try one of the following fixes.

With all Office applications shut down:

1) Delete Preferences then restart your computer.

In your User's Library/Preferences

Note: In Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite, the User's Library folder is hidden by default. To unhide: Select the Finder in the Dock. Under Go in the Menu bar > hold down the Option key and you’ll see the Library.

1. Delete the plist file for app that is crashing:
   1. com.microsoft.Excel.plist
   2. com.microsoft.Word.plist
   3. com.microsoft.Powerpoint.plist
   4. com.microsoft.Outlook.plist
2. Microsoft/Office 2011 (the whole folder) (Note MSFT moved this folder to the User's Library/Application Support/Microsoft folders in 14.2.0.

2) If removing preferences fails..

If the following files exist, Remove or rename them:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word Settings (10)

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word Settings (11)

Normal Template:

1) Track down all instances of pre-2008 Normal template on your computer, and drag them to your desktop. The file is called simply 'Normal' and has no extension.

2) Find and drag the file Normal.dotm to your desktop. Unless you have moved it, it should be in

~ /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/

Re-start computer after removing files.

3) Run Repair Permissions Don't run from CD. Updates contain a newer versions of the application's permissions.

1. Open Disk Utility in your Applications/Utility folder.
2. Click on the First Aid tab and select Repair Permissions
3. Click on the icon for your boot volume.
4. Click the repair permissions button.

4) Repair Drive using Disk Utility

To repair your startup disk, you must startup from your Mac OS X Install disc or another drive on which Mac OS X is installed.

Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite have a Recovery Drive that can be used to repair your drive. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718

Choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu at the top of the screen.

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Open Disk Utility

• Click on the First Aid tab.
• Select your drive from the sidebar
• Select Repair Disk
• Restart computer normally

5) Download and run Apple Combo

It wouldn't hurt to download and run the latest Apple combo over your current install. A combo goes back and refreshes all files. More info