Try the steps below:
May 10, 2012 'Why Does Microsoft Word 2011 (or 2008) Keep Crashing or Corrupting Files on my Mac?' If you look at customer reviews of recent versions of Microsoft Word, you'll find those reviews divided between users who are tearing their hair out over Word. Feb 09, 2015 If Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is crashing when it starts up in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), you should watch this how-to video for some tips that can help fix it. Oct 07, 2015 Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 update. In addition to the application improvements that are mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. For more information about subscriptions, see Frequently Asked Questions. This update has prerequisites. Oct 07, 2015 Microsoft today released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, which fixes a significant Outlook bug that Office users ran into after upgrading to OS X.
Quit MS Word, open the Go menu with the Option (Alt) key pressed - Library - locate the file 'com.microsoft.Word.plist' and move it to your Desktop. Open MS Word once again. If the problem is resolved, you can delete the file from Desktop.
If this doesn't help, quit all MS Office apps and open the Go menu with the Option (Alt) key pressed - Library - Preferences - Microsoft. Locate the file 'com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist' and move it to your Desktop. Restart Word. if everything works, remove this file.
Hope this helps!
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Issues affecting Word for Mac features and add-ins
Issues with fonts in Office for macOS [WORKAROUND]
ISSUE
Users may see issues with fonts when using version 16.9 of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote and Microsoft PowerPoint on macOS.
Symptoms:
Microsoft excel cannot open or save any more documents mac. Text appears garbled or in a different font
Fonts not appearing in font picker
STATUS: WORKAROUND
We recommend you check the installed versions of the font. If you have multiple versions, then make sure the latest version of the font is active.
For more information, read about how to fix Issues with fonts in Office for macOS
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