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Thanks a million for the time you've taken to read this! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. One of the products of Microsoft Office like Word, Excel etc. The symptom can be due to deletion of any Office application file by the anti-virus or during a program crash. Go To Control Panel 2. View by Small Items. Double-click on Programs and Features.
Select Microsoft Office that window. Then you will see a Change lable option at the top. Click it. Office starts to repair itself automatically. Sometimes, even the repair functionality may not work properly.
Then the solution is to start your Windows in clean boot mode. Then check if you can work with Office applications. The System Configuration window will open. This will load only basic devices and services only.
Click Apply and restart your PC. Now if Office applications are working properly, then the problem is with one of the non-Microsoft services.
There can be other cases of Office not working in Windows It can show up some error code like This can crash the Outlook, Word etc window, Windows 10 may run slowly and response to mouse or keyboar is also sluggish, PC may freeze from time to time etc. The error dialog box can also appear when you are installing Windows 10 also. Corrupt installation file of Office software. Registry items of Office may get corrupted due to a change like uninstall or install. Trojans, malware, virus may have infected your PC and corrupted your Office files.
Another Windows 10 program might have deleted some of the Office files. Using older version of cleaning utility like CCleaner to clean unused registry items might have removed some wanted registry entries. The solution to this error code is to repair the corrupt registry entries associated with the error Then you find the items causing the error and repair them.
You can also do a full anti-virus scan, update PC drivers, install recent Office updates, clean out system junk using the Disk cleanup functionality provided in Windows. In another case, Office click-to-run application like Word may crash multiple times when you try to start it and shows the following dialog box.
For this kind of error, you can use the same approach mentioned in the first case. You can open Control Panel and find the Office application in the available list of programs. Then you can try the repair functionality available with it.
When you try to re-install Office due to some reason, there may be a chance of some left-over registry entries which may hinder the progress of installation. You may get the following error during the installation phase —. Error The solution to this type of error is to clean the registry before you re-install Office and then restart the PC.
Then try to install Office. Even if you try the SFC scan command you may get an error like.
Note: This will repair the entire Office suite even if it's just one application you want to repair such as Word or Excel. If you have a standalone app installed, then search for that application by name.
Depending if your copy of Office is Click-to-run or MSI-based install, you'll see the following options to proceed with the repair. Follow the steps for your installation type. The faster Quick Repair option is also available, but it only detects and then replaces corrupted files.
In Change your installation , select Repair and then click Continue. Right-click the Start button lower-left corner , and select Control Panel from the pop-up menu.
From Category view, under Programs , select Uninstall a program. Right-click the Microsoft Office product you want to repair, and from the drop-down, select Change. If you have a standalone application such as Word or Excel, search for the application name. Depending if your copy of Office is Click-to-run or an MSI-based install, do the following for your Office installation type:.
Here's what I do:. There is no option to select repair, uninstall, or anything on the next screen, because the next screen never appears. I'm pretty sure that I don't hae Click-to-Start installed because a Office didn't come pre-installed with my Dell laptop and b there is no other application related to Office in the programs listed. Run fix it from the article mentioned below which removes the Office completely then reinstall and check if that resolves the issue:.
Was this reply helpful? Yes No. On the File menu, click Options , and then select Add-ins. Click Go next to the Manage field that displays "Com-in Add. If the problem does not occur after un-checking the add-ins, repeat the procedure and select one add-in at a time. Restart Office, and continue to add check marks until the issue reappears again.
The last add-in that was rechecked should be disabled. If the problem continues to occur in safe mode, we recommend that you uninstall Office and then install it. To do this, read the following Microsoft knowledge base article: How to uninstall Office , Office or Office suites if you cannot uninstall it from Control Panel?
Check whether the problem is fixed. If the problem is fixed, you are finished with this section. If the problem is not fixed, you can contact support. The solution to this error code is to repair the corrupt registry entries associated with the error Then you find the items causing the error and repair them. You can also do a full anti-virus scan, update PC drivers, install recent Office updates, clean out system junk using the Disk cleanup functionality provided in Windows.
In another case, Office click-to-run application like Word may crash multiple times when you try to start it and shows the following dialog box. For this kind of error, you can use the same approach mentioned in the first case. You can open Control Panel and find the Office application in the available list of programs. Then you can try the repair functionality available with it. When you try to re-install Office due to some reason, there may be a chance of some left-over registry entries which may hinder the progress of installation.
You may get the following error during the installation phase —. Error The solution to this type of error is to clean the registry before you re-install Office and then restart the PC. Then try to install Office. Even if you try the SFC scan command you may get an error like. Unfortunately this tool is not available for Windows 10, 8. You can download it for Windows 7, Vista from the following location.
Note : For Windows 10, 8. Type the following command in elevated command prompt or with Administrator privileges, and then press Enter. Then you have to analyze this file for any corruptions in the registry. First make sure the following key is available in the Windows registry.