Word crashes unexpectedly. It is unreliable.

[Taylor Mali]

I have the student/teacher version, and whenever I'm in the middle of
something and it's really going well, Word crashes and I lose a lot of work.
Anyone else have this problem?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I have the student/teacher version, and whenever I'm in the middle of
something and it's really going well, Word crashes and I lose a lot of work.
Anyone else have this problem?

What version of Word? What OS version?

You may find some help here (Word v.X/Word 2004):

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm

or (Word 98/2001):

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootWord2001.htm