Microsoft Office Update - Now unable to open Apps.

[Jason_E]

Morning all,

Anyone fire up their PC today to find this?

Followed by...

It happens when I try to open any office applications. On startup I was told I needed to finish up setting up my device as well (as if I did a fresh install), so I assume it was a large update?

I've so far tried:

- Running any Office App as Admin
- Running the windows app "Repair" on Microsoft Office

Any solutions welcomed!

 

[Jason_E]

Typical, just as I post I find the solution. But in case anyone else is wondering.

Go to "Programs and Features"

Find that app, click change, then Quick Repair!

 

[Krarl]

Have you tried running sfc /scannow in an elevated command prompt?

If you have open Registry Editor then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Windows and then have a look if LoadAppInit_DLLs has a 1 or a 0 there. If it's 1 then change it to 0

 

[Krarl]

Lol, I thought you tried repair? Time waster!

 

[Jason_E]

Lol, I thought you tried repair? Time waster!

I used the Windows version of Repair in the "Apps & Features" Window.

This is a repair in the "Programs and features" Window

For some reason, both Repair options are different. One runs one that lasts 1 second, the other opens an office 365 window and takes a minute or two (Which then worked!)

CLEAR AS MUD.

 

[botfch]

Ah I sure don't miss working on windows hateful os.

Sorry that's not much help can you use the online versions until it starts working?

 

[Krarl]

I used the Windows version of Repair in the "Apps & Features" Window.

This is a repair in the "Programs and features" Window

For some reason, both Repair options are different. One runs one that lasts 1 second, the other opens an office 365 window and takes a minute or two (Which then worked!)

CLEAR AS MUD.

Cos Windows

If only all game launchers worked on Ubuntu...

 

[Darren S]

Ah I sure don't miss working on windows hateful os.

Sorry that's not much help can you use the online versions until it starts working?

It's hard to believe just what a s**t-show the Microsoft Store app is. You can't see items installed. Then there's 35 apps waiting to be updated. Then they try to flog you stuff that's years out of date and way overpriced. And they are still pushing Candy Crush?! So, so poor.

And now O365 gremlins start to creep in. I can apparently create an OLAP cube via Excel that updates via inbuilt macros to land a database on Mars via Outlook - yet the most simple of functions are buried deep within parent menus that don't even relate to what you're trying to do.

The point at which I realised that the Office dev team were scratching their heads with "WTF do we do now?" - was when they added local weather to the Outlook Calendar. About as relevant as picking a hire car based on the fragrance of the Magic Tree swinging from the interior mirror.

 

[botfch]

It's hard to believe just what a s**t-show the Microsoft Store app is. You can't see items installed. Then there's 35 apps waiting to be updated. Then they try to flog you stuff that's years out of date and way overpriced. And they are still pushing Candy Crush?! So, so poor.

And now O365 gremlins start to creep in. I can apparently create an OLAP cube via Excel that updates via inbuilt macros to land a database on Mars via Outlook - yet the most simple of functions are buried deep within parent menus that don't even relate to what you're trying to do.

The point at which I realised that the Office dev team were scratching their heads with "WTF do we do now?" - was when they added local weather to the Outlook Calendar. About as relevant as picking a hire car based on the fragrance of the Magic Tree swinging from the interior mirror.

What makes me laugh is use anything Microsoft on an Apple product it works fine, soon as you try using it on windows it throws an error.

Tried to use teams on a laptop this morning and it just throws an error, but on the imac/iphone no problem.