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mdlaubac
Mar 18, 2025Copper Contributor
MS Word Freezing when navigating between Chrome and Word. Safe mode works. now?
Hi All, First, a bit of context. I teach online, so I constantly navigate between MS. Word and Chrome/Firefox. It is pretty much a requirement for what I do. I am running Office 2016 on my home mac...
Stefan_Blom
Mar 24, 2025MVP
Since application Safe mode works around the issue, you should troubleshoot add-ins, both Startup folder add-ins and COM add-ins. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/issues-when-start-or-use-word.
While a video driver issue is another possible explanation, it seems less likely that it would affect just one program.