Microsoft Word 2010 crashes when handling large documents

While preparing an eBook containing 190 plus pages I found that Word 2010 randomly crashed as soon as text or pictures were added.

I therefore ran Word in safe mode (hold the ctrl key while Word starts up) and the program was then stable and did not crash anymore. This showed that Add-ins must be causing the problem, so I uninstalled some of these and Word behaved a bit better.

To uninstall Add-ins, open Word 2010 and from the file menu choose Options and then Add-ins from the left hand menu.

This shows you a list of the Add-ins in Microsoft Word.

From the Manage drop-down box at the foot of the page select Com-Add-ins and then click the Go button.

This now shows the Com-Add-ins that load when you open up Word 2010.

Just untick the ones that you suspect are causing the problems. Then close and open up Word 2010.