Solved Microsoft Office Word 2013 unable to save?

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Greetings,

I'm a former IT Systems Technician, and my girlfriend is a work-from-home writer. I've recently migrated her PC's original processor and ram from an HP motherboard to an ASRock board, linking the original WD Caviar Blue 1TB drive to the board as a secondary drive to collect documents and storage from, while running Windows 8.1 (up to date) on a Seagate Barracuda 250GB for the main OS and programs drive.

With those specs out there in the open, now it's time to get to the root of the problem.

As a work-from-home writer, my girlfriend depends on the ability to save her documents to Microsoft's OneDrive and upload them to her publisher, but with this error showing up, she cannot get them to save. I have never seen such a message in my many years of IT service, and I'm completely baffled.

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I am the administrator... So now I turn to you guys for help.
 

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    Windows 8.1 Pro Media Center x64
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    CPU
    AMD Athlon II X4 640 (Propus)
    Motherboard
    MSI MS-7388
    Memory
    4 DDR2 x2GB = 8GB Total
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    Antec 200
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    Logitech Wireless SB 120 Media AIO Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless SB 120 Media AIO Mouse
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    250 Mbps
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    Opera
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    Other Info
    System data courtesy of Speccy; Courtesy of Piriform Software.
  • PC2
    Dell Studio 1555-S
Do have have more than 1 version of Office installed on the machine? The error message seems to be indicating that there are 2 or more MS Office products installed that are in conflict with each other.
 

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System One

  • OS
    W10 Pro (desktop), W10 (laptop), W10 Pro (tablet)
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    PC/Desktop
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    Home built i7-8700K, Hp Envy x360 EVO Laptop, MS Surface Pro 7
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    3.7Ghz Core i7-8700K, 11th Gen Core i7-1165G7 4.7Ghz, 10th Gen Core™ i5-1035G4 1.1Ghz
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    ASUS TUF Z370-Pro Gaming, HP, MS
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    16G, 8G, 8G
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    AMD Radeon RX580, Intel Iris X Graphics, Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4
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    ATI High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
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    Corsair CX 750M
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    IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
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linking the original WD Caviar Blue 1TB drive to the board as a secondary drive to
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Reads like you have her original OS partition on that secondary drive, right? So, my guess is that MS Office is seeing two versions of itself -- one on your OS drive, and another on her OS drive, and that is what is causing the confusion.

My recommendation would be to copy her documents to your drive and then disconnect her drive. That way, there will be only one copy of MS Office on the PC.
 

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System One

Mark Phelps said:
linking the original WD Caviar Blue 1TB drive to the board as a secondary drive to
Click to expand...
Reads like you have her original OS partition on that secondary drive, right? So, my guess is that MS Office is seeing two versions of itself -- one on your OS drive, and another on her OS drive, and that is what is causing the confusion.

My recommendation would be to copy her documents to your drive and then disconnect her drive. That way, there will be only one copy of MS Office on the PC.
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So, the original OS drive, the WD Caviar Blue 1TB, having the original OS, documents and programs on it, is causing a conflict with the new OS drive, with MS Office on it as well?
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro Media Center x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    AMD Athlon II X4 640 (Propus)
    Motherboard
    MSI MS-7388
    Memory
    4 DDR2 x2GB = 8GB Total
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon R7 250x Pro Series
    Sound Card
    Motherboard Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Westinghouse Digital 22" LED TV
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKB-00H8A0 ATA Device (ATA )
    698GB Seagate ST3750640NA PATA Device (ATA )
    931GB Western Digital WDCWD10EZEX-22MFCA0 (SATA )
    931GB Seagate ST31000528AS SCSI Disk Device (SATA )
    1397GB Seagate ST31500541AS SCSI Disk
    PSU
    Corsair CX750 Bronze PSU
    Case
    Antec 200
    Cooling
    (3) Corsair CF 120 & (1) Corsair CF140mm fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless SB 120 Media AIO Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless SB 120 Media AIO Mouse
    Internet Speed
    250 Mbps
    Browser
    Opera
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    System data courtesy of Speccy; Courtesy of Piriform Software.
  • PC2
    Dell Studio 1555-S
Silverhand92 said:
So, the original OS drive, the WD Caviar Blue 1TB, having the original OS, documents and programs on it, is causing a conflict with the new OS drive, with MS Office on it as well?
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That would be my guess, yes. Folks have reported similar problems trying to run two different Office versions on the same PC.
 

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