I do not know when or how it happened, but sometimes after updating Windows, I could not open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or any Office documents. It looked like my Microsoft Office installation had become corrupt.
I tried to uninstall Office through the Control Panel > Programs and Features > Uninstall applet. But it did not work. Right-clicking, selecting Change, and trying to repair Office also did not work.
Read: How to install Office 365 on Windows PC.
Then I came across this tool that lets you easily remove or completely uninstall Office 365 or Office 2024/2021/2019/2016 suites and programs.
Microsoft Office Uninstaller Tool
Download the Microsoft tool, exit all Microsoft Office programs and run the Fix It.
It will ask if you’d like to Apply the fix or Skip the fix and continue troubleshooting. To uninstall Office, I selected Apply this fix.
The uninstaller will run for a minute or two.
After a few minutes, the troubleshooter would have completely uninstalled Microsoft Office from your computer.
If you selected the Troubleshoot option earlier, you would be notified of problems found, if any.
Clicking on View detailed information will give you some more information about the problems.
You can download these tools from Microsoft and use them to uninstall Office from your Windows computer.
You can also use this new SetupProd_OffScrub tool from Microsoft that lets you completely uninstall the latest Microsoft 365 or Office 2024/21/19 versions from Windows 11/10.
TIP: You can also use Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant CMD version.
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