Word (Office 2011) Crashes in File > Open Dialog with Dropbox
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Word (Office 2011) Crashes in File > Open Dialog with Dropbox


Are you finding that Microsoft Word crashes when using Dropbox?

There appears to be an issue that has been introduced with v72.4.136 of Dropbox, which causes Word 2011 to crash when attempting to browse Dropbox using File > Open or File > Save dialogs.

It works perfectly normally when you use a regular Finder window to browse and open the files from Dropbox.

It may be necessary to work around saving issues by saving to desktop and then manually re-filing into Dropbox.

Long-term solution has to be upgrading to v2016 as v2011 is increasingly outdated.

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Date Name Comments
Sep 29th Hashmita P Very helpful and got my issue resolved swiftly. thank you!
Sep 29th Suzanne G Thanks for your help, Michael
Sep 22nd Amanda H Thanks, Lochie. Prompt effective treatment of annoying problem as usual!
Sep 20th Lynn H great service as always. many thanks
Sep 14th Longcroft O Thanks so much Jack, all sorted.
Sep 14th Longcroft O Fantastic as usual, thank you Lochie.
Sep 14th Amanda H I hope the problem is solved. Sorry not to have been able to find another example of what went wrong. Definitely I can now get at the word document I was being blocked from. So, thanks for your prompt effective treatment!
Sep 13th Nigel B Very practical and quick advice that made resolving the issue very efficient
Sep 6th Alexandra O Very quick and solved the problem easily, thank you Jack.
Sep 5th Chris S another one solved....