One of the great things about MacOS X is it almost never crashes. Several weeks can go by between restarts. Applications do crash from time to time, but this does not affect the OS. With one exception: Microsoft Word.

From time to time (not very often) Word hangs and there's no way to kill it. Not using the force quit dialog, not using the "kill" command from the terminal. It just sits there, not letting you even hide the crashed window. The only way out is restarting.

Does anybody has any different idea on how to kill Word?