This wikiHow teaches you how to download and install Microsoft Office on your Windows or Mac computer. Microsoft Office is a suite of software that includes Microsoft.
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Become a and go ad-free! Launching Microsoft Office Setup Fire up the Windows Settings app, and click on System. On the next page, click on Apps and Features.
(In earlier versions of Windows, launch Control Panel, and click on Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features.) After the list populates, which can take a few seconds, look for Microsoft Office (or use the search box and just enter “Office”). Click on the Microsoft Office entry to expose the actions you can take. (In earlier versions of Windows, you may need to right-click to see the options.) Click on Modify (or Change in earlier versions). You may be presented with a prompt, asking for your permission to let the set-up program make changes to your system. Repair with Office Setup Depending on how you installed Office, you may need your original installation media – either the original install CDs, DVD, or the equivalent. If you installed one of the more recent versions by downloading directly from Microsoft, the repair may happen without any additional discs required.
Having clicked “Modify”, Office Repair begins with a choice of how thorough you want the Repair to be. My recommendation is that you try the “Quick” repair first, which I’ll demonstrate here. If that doesn’t resolve your issues, repeat the process using the “Online” repair. Click on Repair. You’ll get a confirmation message asking if you’re ready, since the operation may take some time. Click on Repair, and the operation begins.
Since programs cannot be updated while they’re actually running, the repair process may let you know that it’s closing some apps as part of its work. Eventually the repair finishes. Depending on the changes made, you may be asked to your computer for the repair work to finish. If that didn’t help Repairing Microsoft Office will not repair any of your Office data files. If a document has somehow been corrupted, it’s possible that this could potentially crash your Office program. The easiest way to determine this is to take the document to a different computer, running another copy of Microsoft Office, and attempt to open the document there. If it works, then it’s likely your installation of Office is the problem, and not the document.
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If it fails, it’s likely the document itself is at fault. Unfortunately, there’s no general-purpose Microsoft Office document repair tool. The closest is, a tool specifically created to repair Microsoft Office Outlook’s files. Unfortunately it’s only for PST files, and there are no equivalents for other Office file formats that I’m aware of. Otherwise, if your documents are the cause of the problem, hopefully you have copies that haven’t been damaged. Another possibility is a misbehaving add-on. Like many programs, Microsoft Office’s tools can be extended by third-party add-ons.
Occasionally, those add-ons can cause issues. You can try uninstalling or disabling any you’re aware of. Exactly how you do this will depend on the specific add-on. If you’re not sure, the Programs and Features list we started with is a good place to look. Finally, if nothing else seems to help, there’s always the “nuclear option”: your data, uninstall Office completely, and reinstall it from scratch. That should get you a pristine working copy of Office.
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There are many, many alternatives to Microsoft Office. Whether or not they'll work for you depends on your needs. Before you dismiss it because it's a subscription product, take a look and do the math - Microsoft Office 365 might be surprisingly affordable. Software packages, more and more, are coming as large download files - I wouldn't even attempt to do it on dial-up! There may be a few options for you that will work.
Depending on how you use your word processing program, you may be able to find a good, free alternative to Word. Posted: September 7, 2016 in: Shortlink. Would this solution to “change” the set up work in my situation?
I always use MS Office 98 and load it to each new computer. I am used to the layout and feel I don’t need to change to a newer version. I guess my computer must have some sort of version of 2007 MS Office as when I recently opened a Word attachment from an email it opened in Word 2007 and now many of my own documents now open in MS Word 2007, or I get a pop up message that the document cannot open and a compatible document will open in MS Works. It is as if MS Office 1998 no longer can be used. I really would like to go back to just having MS Office 1998.
I have all the original CD’s etc. I’d like to add to Leo’s “Another possibility is a misbehaving add-on.” You may not even know that some other program inserted an add-on that caused a problem. I just fixed a Word and Excel problem that upon opening any file, even a blank one, Word immediately crashed and displayed an unhelpful “Something happened, Word has to close” error statement. Turned out that installing a new scanner also installed a AABBY FineReader program that was causing the problem. When that add-on was disabled (not uninstalled) Office returned to happiness.
The key: There is a ‘safe mode’ in Office programs. To run that, open a command line and type: “winword /safe”, excel /safe”, “powerpnt /safe”, etc.
Then, while in safe mode you can disable one or more add-ons. You can also repair your Office 2013/16 by reinstalling a fresh version of your Office. First make sure that you can sign into your Office Account. Your Office Account was created when you first installed your Office and during the process you were prompted to enter the email address and password for a Microsoft Account. You can access your Office Account by signing into the account with the email address and password you used when you first installed your Office at: There is an install button and you can also find your Product Key (Not the Redemption Key you used when you first installed your Office.) So long as you can access your Office Account you can remove All instances of Office from you computer with the Microsoft Uninstall tool.
Use Option 2. Had MS Office 2010 and One Note 2010 installed on one laptop. One day, while One Note 2010 was open, I was prompted to download the new 2016 version.
Thinking newer was better, I installed the 2016 version and deleted the 2010 version. Several weeks later, I tried to open Office 2010, (Word), to compose a letter, it wouldn’t open, nor would any other Office platform. (Excel, Power Point, etc.). Tried every fix in the book. Nothing worked, including, uninstalling 2010 and trying to reinstall with the original CD. As a last resort, thinking I would never reach a human being, I tried contacting Microsoft by telephone and was blown away when, after leaving my number on their website, my phone immediately rang and I was greeted by a tech in, (wait for it), India.
Long story short, (or is it too late?), he took remote control of my PC and within minutes determined, (even though I had uninstalled 2010), the reason it would not open was because I installed One Note 2016 and the two programs are not compatible. So, I provided him with my 2010 Product Key, he removed the 2016 One Note and reinstalled both the Office and One Note 2010 and I was good to go. Lesson learned: Program Version dates ‘Do Matter’. Before commenting please:. Read the article.
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