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Microsoft Office Crashing When Editing Chart Titles

Wow, its been 3 months since my last post.  I guess Im not learning enough!  Well, thats not true.  Its been a busy time of moving to a new home, moving also to a new office, releasing a new software product, and crazy holidays.  Its fun!

Todays biggie is a result of changing my Boot Camp installation to Windows 7 x64.  After the complete redo of my Windows partition I had the strangest problem of Office 2007 crashing 100% of the time when I tried to edit the chart or axis title of a chart in Excel.  I think it also happened when editing text blocks in Paint.  Well after LOTS of searching, service pack installs, and many restarts I found this: Microsoft Technet

In summary this is all you need to do, and from what I read it affects Office 2007 and Office 2010 equally, for me it was only the x64 version, but you never know.

• Open Control Panel
• In view mode “View by Category”, find the section “Clock, Language and Region”
• Click “Change Keyboards or other input methods”
• Press the button “Change Keyboards”
• Press the button “Add”
• Scroll down to “English (United States)” and expand.
• Check box “US”
• Press OK.
• Press OK. — You’ll see two keyboards listed “US” and “United States (Apple)”
• Press OK.

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