I've had this computer 18 months and this has happened for a couple months. However, I am not losing an internet connection.
If I hit yes, then it starts to open Word (even if Word is already opened) and then I get at the bottom of the screen a popup that says 'internet connection was lost' and that it failed to open. Now, a pdf file will work, but if it's a word documents, I click to open it and a popup comes up that says 'would you like to allow Microsoft Client Visualization' or something to that effect, 'to make changes to your computer?' if I hit no, nothing happens.
I used to be able to click on the link, it'd download at the bottom of my screen, and then I could click on the download and it would open no problem. I'm in college and frequently need to download files from our homework website.