Microsoft Office is the office suite from Microsoft including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook and other software.
In some of them, you may encounter problems and malfunctions.
This can range from error messages when opening Word or Excel to freezes in them.
This tutorial explains you how to fix Microsoft 365, Office 2021, 2019, 2016, 2013.
Why repair Office?
Like your applications, you may encounter problems in their functioning.
For example:
An error message when opening Word, Excel or Outlook
Unable to open docx files, Excel documents, etc
Word or Excel does not open, nothing happens
Word or Excel freezes, nothing responds while using it
In this case you can try to repair Microsoft Office.
Repair Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
From the Windows settings
First of all, you have to go to the list of installed programs of Windows.
The path is a little different depending on the version of Windows:
Windows XP: Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
Windows 7 and 8: Control Panel > Programs and Features
Finally Windows 10: From Windows 10 settings > Applications.
The list of installed programs is displayed
Look for Microsoft Office. Here it is an Office 2013 but it also works on Office 2008 and 2016
Just click on it
An Edit option is then available, click on it
You can also simply double-click on it
The Office program will launch with a drop-down menu
Select from the Repair list and click on the Continue button at the bottom
The Microsoft Office repair will start with a progress bar
Let the operation run and wait for it to finish
When finished, a message indicates that the Microsoft Office configuration is complete.
A Close button is then available to close the installation program.
Check if this repair has solved your Office problems and it no longer crashes or freezes.
Reinstall Microsoft Office properly
The last solution to repair Office is to reinstall from the installer.
To do this, follow this complete tutorial.