Word 2013 is crashing when attempting to open OneDrive files

Hopefully someone can assist.  I have been having the same problem on two machines, both running Windows 7 and Office 2013.

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It's only happening in Word 2013 on my Windows 7 machine at work. Any other Office file type that I attempt to open works just fine (Excell, PowerPoint). And it's still only when trying to open a document directly from my OneDrive. It was working just fine, this is all of the sudden new.

If I attempt to recover or repair the document after opening it again (post crash) it just comes out as a garbled mess of characters and empty lines.

I get a generic error that Word has crashed and asks if I want to check online for a solution (which it never finds one), close or debug. The details are rather limited: 

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

  Application Name: WINWORD.EXE

  Application Version: 15.0.4605.1001

  Application Timestamp: 5328ef0c  Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll

  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.18229

  Fault Module Timestamp: 51fb1677

  Exception Code: e00000ff

  Exception Offset: 000000000000940d

  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48

  Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:

  LCID: 1033

  skulcid: 1033

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I am getting this same exact problem. When opening my document from the OneDrive directory, it seems to hang on attempting to open the underlying template, and then crashes. If I move that file to outside of the OneDrive directory, I can open it.

This seemed to have started after a raft of office 2013 updates happened on April 18.

I also get a peculiar side-effect: if I attach the document to an Outlook e-mail after directly downloading from OneDrive, my recipients who have Office 365 are being asked to sign in with a message that says "Call us overprotective, but we need to verify your account again before opening this document." This message seems to be tied to a SharePoint issue. If I modify that document locally before sending out, there is no sign-in dialog that pops up.

I have been able to get the file to open if I uncheck "Use Office to sync files faster and work on files with other people at the same time" that is in the OneDrive settings dialog, and was recommended as a solution in the question about Microsoft being overprotective, but I haven't been able to get around the peculiar side effect.