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Les99
Nov 12, 2026Copper Contributor
Word for the web does not open. Documents remain on a loading spinner indefinitely.
What works: OneDrive loads normally. Excel files open and edit successfully in Excel for the web. Word documents can be downloaded from OneDrive. New Word documents can be created, but they also...
Les99
Nov 13, 2026Copper Contributor
I suspect this problem might have been related to the recent Microsoft outage, perhaps a precursor to the main event. Yesterday morning I was able to open and edit Word documents. However, I would get error messages from time to time saying a portion of a document that I had been editing wasn’t saved. This usually took a few tries to re-establish access. Today it seems to be back to normal. Hoping it stays that way.