Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
Following an automatic update I cannot open any office programs. What happens to all my emails ( cannot find any files...seem all deleted) if I reload Microsoft office?
Unless they got deleted somehow (which they don't during uninstalls with either Control Panel or the Office Fix file) your email .pst files are in My Documents\Outlook Files and the older type .ost email files are in C:\Users\username\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
and there are configuration files and signature files found here: C:\Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\ and C:\Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\Signatures. These folders have been left behind in every uninstall I have done and
when you reinstall they ensure that when you open Outlook it is setup just like when you uninstalled it. But you have to do one more thing to preserve the email accounts or else having the email doesn't do any good unless you re-create the accounts and import
it in from those files. To save that work, before you uninstall Office, go to the registry with regedit.exe and export this key:
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office<version>\Outlook\Profiles
After the reinstall, before opening Outlook the first time, merge that exported key with your registry, make sure that those files I mentioned in the last paragraph are there and then open Outlook. It should be identical to what it was before the crash. Just remember, you have to do the registry to save all your email accounts and have the files so that you have all your email data and the settings from Outlook. The only thing you might have to do is enter your passwords the first time it checks email, because passwords are not saved. Now having said that, the first reinstall i did I had to re-enter the passwords. On other machines I have not had to re-enter them. They are already there somehow. So, either way, if you follow the above directions you save your Outlook configuration and the worst that you have to do is re-enter passwords if that.