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Word suddenly started crashing every time either
This behaviour started without an update of the OS or Office.
Edit This also happens activating the tracking on a new empty document. The behaviour is reproducible with each and every document with «track changes» activated.
You can get pretty close to what you want by turning off balloons.
In the "Track Changes" section of Word's preferences, uncheck the button that says "Use balloons to display changes."
Now additions and deletions are shown inline, and comments are shown as highlights with a reference.
You can view the comments by hovering over the highlight.
Or, you can display the "Review Pane" and view the comments (with additions and deletions interspersed) over there. Less distracting than balloons, though.
Microsoft released support article that states that Office 2008 is compatible with some known issues.
If you lost your autosaved files try to look in in Trash for Recovered files (after Restart) and check if the Autosave directory is set right (and has the right permissions) in Word Preferences.
Best Answer
The problem is not with the track changes and comments but how Word tries to display them: in a Balloon...
Luckily there is a simple solution:
remove the tickmark from here.
You can still see the changes inside text by checking the colors and use
to step through comments (the list will be opened at a left side sidebar). Convinient way although not so fancy, but at least: it works!