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MS Word 2010 was acting strange since a couple of weeks, it would crash the moment I add certain quick parts. I was editing a template for content type in SharePoint 2010 document library and it would crash Word. Clicking on the error details shows this: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH   Application Name: WINWORD.EXE   Application Version: 14.0.7106.5001   Application Timestamp: 520b3934   Fault Module Name: wwlib.dll   Fault Module Version: 14.0.7106.5001   Fault Module Timestamp: 520b3985   Exception Code: c0000005   Exception Offset: 000107f6   OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48   Locale ID: 2057 Additional information about the problem:   LCID: 1033   skulcid: 1033 Read our privacy statement online:   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409 If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:   C:\Windows\system32\en-US\e...

Document Property under Quick Parts sometimes appears grayed out or disabled in Word client and we can see that Compatibility mode written on the Word client on the top part. This happens because Word disables certain features to make our document compatible with previous versions of Office. To workaround we have to change the compatibility feature. To do that click File on the Word ribbon and select Info. Click on Convert button and click OK on the pop up message. This enables the disabled features and now we can access the Document Properties under Quick Part.