
And office keeps crashing in this clean up stage. If I understand this correctly (they do not explain, just give step-by-step procedure) there are temporary files which do not get removed on Quit properly and in subsequent runs of office they get in way of cleanup on Quit. It varies based on OSX version and office version, so you need to find the correct procedure for your system. If you do bit Google searching ("Office on OSX crashes on quit"), there is procedure what and how to clean up which Microsoft published when this starts happening. My experience with Office (especially Word) has been (2011 though) that is often generates "crash report" on regular quit. Especially with such ugly and badly designed beast as Office is. I actually sometimes even reboot Mac after Force-quitting any application to make sure I cleaned up anything which may be left over from this drastic measure. That is what the Error report was designed to do - catch when application died on its own or when user needed to Force-quit it. When you Force-quit you simply tell OS to kill the application without any chance of letting it to clean up and quit on its own.įorce-quit SHOULD generate error report. When you Quit, you tell application to clean up and quit. Force-quit should be rare, very rare, event. Force-quit is much more drastic method of killing application which does not want to quit on its own and these are two VASTLY different methods of quitting.

That is keystroke for regular quit, same as if you choose Quit from the menu in Word, Powerpoint or Excel.
