I am running MS Office 2007 and Sharepoint Services 3.0 on a Windows 7 OS. To open the Sharepoint site I have used both IE 9 and Firefox 11. I don't have the issue with Google Chrome because it auto- downloads the file instead of giving the option to open straight from the site. This is also happening on Windows XP SP3. I am part of a company and this is a company wide issue, not confined to one or two workstations, but across more than 50. Here is what happens:
1) Open Sharepoint site and navigate to desired document.
2) Left-click to open document.
3) A dialogue box appears asking if you would like to Open or Edit (it doesn't matter which you choose).
4) Open the document. Word will open and you can see it attempting to open the document, however, shortly after this happens, Word will stop responding and within a couple seconds you will only have the option to close the program.
I can right-click on the document and select "save target as" and then open from the save location (not directly from the browser) and everything works fine. I have been looking and looking for a solution to this issue, but have not found anything.
I have repaired the MS Office install, reset IE advanced settings to default, as well as made sure our url is set in the Alternate Access Mappings list in Sharepoint's Central Administration. Please help!