Saturday, September 12, 2015

windows 8.1 - How to debug a problematic word document

I realize that there are tons of questions with similar symptoms, but I checked most of them and could not find an answer.



My system setup is as follows; nothing special running in the background:




  • Windows 8.1 64-bit.


  • Office 2013, no add-ons, no macros.

  • Intel i7

  • 8GB of RAM

  • SSD



What happens is that from time to time something happens to MS Word (while I am editing a document) and it becomes unresponsive eating up 100% CPU, scrolling is jumpy, etc… This is probably related to certain documents; I’ve noticed that it happens with certain documents more often then others. I know what the problematic documents are, but I cannot not work with them. Copy and pasting the content into a new document does not help and the documents in question are not particularly large.



So how to debug this issue? Where do I start?




How can I inspect the document to see what kind of stuff (in addition to plain text) they put in there? I tried the “inspect document” thing and it found some stuff, but it is not very informative - it just says “custom XML found,” “invisible objects found,” etc… I tried removing what can be removed, but this did not help. I would like to actually see what has it found.



How can I debug Word when the problem occurs?



Any other ideas?

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