Mavericks: MS Word crashing on documents with comments In short, Word crashes silently upon opening certain documents.  The problem seems to be with documents that include Comments.  I have tested by using WinWord to remove the comments from a file that crashed.  After removing the comments, Word opens just fine. 

Furthermore, when creating new comments in a fresh document, Word crashes.

I have tried all 


reinstalled Word 14.3.8
deleting all caches (font and otherwise) using Onyx
Installing latest Java
disabling MS Error Reporting


all of which didn't help.

Any suggestions?
Changing preferred language to English (as explained here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/115387) worked for me!