In case the installation is damaged or corrupted, it will fix the issue. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn’t help. Thanks for your feedback.

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Thanks for your feedback. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, redeem, activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member. I installed Office though home use rights on O Today, starting Office apps resulted in a message that it couldn’t start and I needed to repair. Quick Repair didn’t fix, and now online repair has been on Step 3 of 4 for two hours.

Just wondering if this is one of those “come back tomorrow” things. If that doesn’t fix the problem Spoiler alert! The absolute worst case requires running a cleanup tool on the current Office installation, followed by a clean install of a new copy of Office. Open Control Panel by typing con into the Windows Search box and selecting Control Panel from the results that appear. Pick the Change option. Click Yes , and the built-in Office repair window appears.

The Quick Repair option, as shown in Figure 2, is selected by default. When you run a Quick Repair operation, Office will attempt simple repairs using local files already on your PC. This usually takes a minute or two to complete. In about 4 cases out of 5, in my personal experience, this step alone is enough to repair Office properly and restore it to working order. With the Quick Repair radio button selected, click the Repair button near the bottom right corner of the window.

Figure 3 shows what that looks like. Click Repair again on this screen. On my test machine, for example, I had Outlook open.

This provoked the request shown in Figure 4 where, of course, I clicked Continue to close Outlook so repairs could work through to completion. This process seldom takes more than one or two minutes. Even on my vintage test machine, it was done in under a minute on a healthy Office installation, I cheerfully confess. If not, proceed to Step 2.

This time, after you right-click your Office version in Programs and Features and select Change from the pop-up menu, select the Online Repair option instead and then click Repair. This operation takes a bit longer because it downloads the Office applications and their supporting files from the Microsoft servers to the target PC. That means three minutes and up is typical for it to step through its paces, depending on your internet download speed. My connection just clocked in at Mbps on the test machine according to Ookla Speedtest , and it took 2.

Then it took another 4 minutes and 24 seconds for the genuine progress bar shown above to download all the files.

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While Office doesn’t have a built-in diagnostic tool like Office , you can download the free analyzer tool from Microsoft that will. The Office repair tool has been running for an hour now and hasn’t shown any signs of progressing beyond Step 1, and all the MS Office. If the issue persists, try uninstalling and the Office using the Microsoft Troubleshooter and re-install it. In case the installation is damaged.❿
 
 

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