Enter windows update, select Windows Update, and then select Installed Updates. If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then select Search. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search. In the list of updates, locate and then select update KB3114717, and then select Uninstall. Windows 10: Go to Start, enter View Installed Updates in the Search Windows box, and then press Enter. This is confirmed as an issue with update KB3114717. Poster amcmill (who isn't listed as a Microsoft employee) gave a definitive response last night in one of the Microsoft Answer forum threads on the subject: We have escalated this problem, any updates will let you know. Microsoft employee Emi Zhang reported on Technet late Thursday night: There are additional reports (still unconfirmed) that a similar problem occurs with Outlook.

There are reports that the problem occurs with both DOC and DOCX files.Running Word in safe mode doesn't help.The bug drives one processor core to 100 percent utilization, making it effectively impossible to edit a document.

It also appears on 64-bit Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2002 R2.

(Many people prefer the 32-bit version of Word 2013 over the 64-bit because of historic stability questions.)

The problem occurs with Word 2013 SP1 32-bit.

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