- A spinning wheel generally means macOS has detected a problem in a specific app. The good news is it also means your entire system (including the OS) hasn’t crashed. In fact, a spinning wheel doesn’t necessarily mean anything has crashed (yet).
- Microsoft word spinning wheel. I am nearly finished an assignment on microsoft word on my mac and before getting the chance to save the rainbow wheel has come up and is still going? Whenever i open microsoft word, the spinning wheel of death comes up and i cant do anything about it? Spinning wheel microsoft word.
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To prevent freezing and crashing of Microsoft Office apps on your Mac, upgrade to macOS 10.13 High Sierra and update Office to version 15.38 or later. If you are using earlier MS Office and Mac OS X versions, you may experience Word, Excel, an Outlook freeze-ups, and crashes. Few things give Mac users that sinking feeling more than the sight of a spinning color wheel, rainbow wheel, spinning beach ball of death or SBBOD as it's also commonly known. It’s official name is the Spinning Wait Cursor, and it’s a system indicator. Signifies that macOS cannot handle all the tasks given to it at this moment. Then Select Microsoft Word and click Force Quit. Was this reply helpful? How do I stop my Mac from rolling the ball? How to stop the spinning ball on Mac? Click the Apple icon in the top left corner. Choose Force Quit (or press cmd+alt+esc). Select the app that won’t respond. Click Force Quit. How do I stop Word not responding on Mac?