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Recovering From Microsoft Office “Freezes”

by Richard

Sometimes, a Microsoft Office program will “freeze” or “hang”, meaning that it is still actually running, but is totally unresponsive - usually this happens just when you are on a deadline and have some critical work not yet saved…

This tip may just save the day - it won’t work all the time, but when it does, it’s magic. You do need to have several Office programs open at the same time - Word, Excel, Outlook or whatever.

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