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In case your Office Word 2010 is giving you issues such as it gets stuck, it crashes all of a sudden, it becomes unresponsive etc, then you might want to try to run it in safe mode. What follows is a brief, easy tutorial on how to open your Word 2010 in safe mode and debug it.

1. Press the CTRL key and then try to open a Word document.
2. A dialog box will appear on your screen with the following message: “Word has detected that you are holding down the CTRL key. Do you want to Start Word in safe mode?”.
3. Click Yes.
4. Alternatively, if nothing happens after pressing the CTRL key click Start.
5. In the Search field, type: winword.exe /safe and hit Enter.