{"id":800,"date":"2016-11-01T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=800"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:47:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T17:47:18","slug":"windows-10-word-could-not-create-the-work-file-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/software\/windows-10-word-could-not-create-the-work-file-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 &#8211; Word could not create the work file error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an upgrade to windows 10 LTSB 2016 &#8220;anniversary&#8221; edition MS word is giving the error:<br \/>\n&#8220;Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft this error occurs when Word doesn&#8217;t have permission to write temporary files.  To fix this they suggest changing the location of the Internet Explorer Temporary folder or change the registry pointer for Word to a correct temporary location with:<br \/>\nHKEY_CURRENT_USER \\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\User Shell Folders<br \/>\nSet the &#8220;Cache&#8221; to:<br \/>\n%USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Temporary Internet Files<\/p>\n<p>For Details See: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/2285187\">https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/2285187<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an upgrade to windows 10 LTSB 2016 &#8220;anniversary&#8221; edition MS word is giving the error: &#8220;Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable&#8221; According to Microsoft this error occurs when Word doesn&#8217;t have permission to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/software\/windows-10-word-could-not-create-the-work-file-error\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10086,10085],"tags":[73532,73522],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labs","category-software","tag-ms-word","tag-windows-10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}