Re: Word won't open on mac

Step 1. On the Go menu, click Utilities.
Step 2. Start the Disk Utility program.
Step 3. Choose the primary hard disk drive for your computer.
Step 4. Click the First Aid tab.
Step 5. Click Repair Disk Permissions.

# 2. Remove Word preferences
Step 1. Open Library and then Preferences folder.
Step 2. Locate a file named as com.microsoft.Word.plist. Move the file to the desktop.
Step 3. Now start Word and check whether the problem still occurs. If yes, go and restore the file to its original location and start it over.

Step 1. Open Library and then Preferences folder.
Step 2. Open the Microsoft folder and locate a file named as com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist. Move it to the desktop.
Step 3. Now start Word and check whether the problem still occurs. If yes, go and restore the file to its original location and start it over again.

Step 1. Open Library and then Preferences folder.
Step 2. Open the Application Support folder.
Step 3. Open the Microsoft folder.
Step 4. Open the Office folder.
Step 5. Open the User Templates folder.
Step 6. Locate the file that is named Normal, and move the file to the desktop.

# 3. Try to open, repair and recover Word
Step 1. Start Word. On the File menu, click Open.
Step 2. In the Open dialog box, click to select the file that you want to open.
Step 3. Click the down arrow on the Open button and then click Open and Repair.