WAHOOO TOOOO!!! Yip back on line folowig the unbstall and reinstall suggestions...... thanks to all involved
The Fixit KB2827031 did nothing to assist - it had Office endlessly 'hanging' until I rebooted.
But removing OFFICE with 015ctrremove.diagcab worked well and promptly acontext nd the reinstall was slow but easy as I have the Product Key -entered this on www.office/my account and then prompts steered me to a download Office online. (hope this make
sense in context of recent messages)
NO thanks to MS and its apparent disinterest in its Client base, mind you saying this I did get this solution from within their 'belly of information' only after your good detective work.
Cheers
Rick