Word 2016 hangs when opening a document based on a template

Anonymous
2015-10-04T11:47:18+00:00

I store my documents in:

OneDrive\Shared Documents\Business

and my templates in

OneDrive\Shared Documents\Templates

As I've done for over a year.

All worked fine in Office / Word 2013

Word 2016 will hang if I try and open a document that is based on a template.

The templates are available.

I've tried renaming the templates and removing spaces in the names but that didn't help.

If I remove the template the document will open and show as based on Normal.dotx.

All templates and documents use the new 2016 file format and are saved as .dotx.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-11-13T14:10:48+00:00

    It seems like last update fixed my issue (rel 16.0.6001.1038).

    Did it do the same for yours?

    Yes! After the latest Windows 10 update, the problem of hanging while opening Word or Excel documents has resolved.

    No, the problem has not been resolved.  I must have opened a document from my own OneDrive (which works fine) and was too excited to notice.  Opening an Excel or Word document from OneDrive accounts shared with me (my boss's, for example) still results in the program hanging. Apologies.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-13T14:43:17+00:00

    Updating to the latest version of Office (1038) and installing the big November update to Windows 10 appears to have resolved the issue for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-13T18:19:12+00:00

    Dear all,

    For the ones who still face the problem, if you are using a personal template on OneDrive, you can avoid the issue before saving the document for the first time, by modifying the link to the template, through the tab Developer/Template.

    There you can attached a template from the User directory, usually I take normal.dotm.

    Waiting now the fix by MS.

    Kind regards,

    Yves

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-13T18:40:58+00:00

    Dear all,

    For the ones who still face the problem, if you are using a personal template on OneDrive, you can avoid the issue before saving the document for the first time, by modifying the link to the template, through the tab Developer/Template.

    There you can attached a template from the User directory, usually I take normal.dotm.

    Waiting now the fix by MS.

    Kind regards,

    Yves

    Thank you for the suggestion.  I do not use a custom template, however.  The files I am trying to open are based on the normal.dotm template.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-14T09:40:46+00:00

    Almost the same for me.

    I mean:

     - I did big november update and office update on my surface pro.

     - I opened one of the docs that usually hangs my word. When it connected to OneDrive to open the template, it asked my again for OneDrive authentication, then it opened the docs without problems in few seconds.

     - Now every docs that before hung words work, on PC without the big november update too.

    Very, very strange... It seems like an authentication issue.

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