by cherylelinsley
The steps to access the repair tool vary depending on your operating system. Unfortunately, there’s no general-purpose Microsoft Office document repair tool. If your documents are the cause of the problem, hopefully you have backup copies that haven’t been damaged.
- If one or more Office apps is acting glitchy, work your way through this series of repair maneuvers, starting with the simplest.
- My spreadsheets will still be there no matter what.
- That’s good because that’s what you’ll try next.
- Note that it says “The app’s data will be deleted.” This does not include your files.
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The installer window changed to an animated display that included what’s shown in Figure 8. If you have any Office applications open, you’ll be asked to close them before the repairs can complete. 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).
Step 4: Wax off, wax on (remove and replace Office)
How to run a repair installation of Microsoft Office?
Unzip to a folder of your choosing, then run the file named SaraSetup.exe to install the program. You’ll see a dialog box like the one shown in Figure 9 open up and ask you to confirm installation. Just before the progress bar completed, a notification popped up to tell me that my Office install was Step-by-step Office troubleshooting complete.
Repair a corrupted workbook
What a reset does is reset settings, history, and perhaps more that is specific to the configuration of the program. A recovery file of your workbook also helps ensure you’ll have access to your data if your workbook is deleted accidentally or if it becomes corrupted. If neither automatic nor manual repair works, there are some recovery methods that might help salvage your data. Once you’ve installed the program, the home screen opens up, as shown in Figure 10. It includes options for Teams, Office, the Outlook desktop client, Outlook on the web, advanced diagnostics, and more. Then it took another 4 minutes and 24 seconds for the (genuine) progress bar shown above to download all the files.
Repairing Office
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So I close Excel, try to open it again without safe mode, and… nothing. Microsoft SaRA is the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant. If you’re lucky, when you open your formerly balky or misbehaving Windows app, all will be well. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. If you’re lucky, you’ll find your problem covered, and SaRA will fix it for you.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. If a Microsoft 365 application such as Word or Excel isn’t working correctly, sometimes restarting it will fix the problem. If that doesn’t work, you can try repairing it.