OFFICE STUCK AT "We're getting things ready" (Office for Windows)

Anonymous
2015-12-22T06:24:08+00:00

I activated my Office 365 Home Subscription and clicked the install button on the page. It downloaded an .exe file and so I clicked it, then an orange box popped up saying "We're getting things ready" and it has been like this for 30 minutes. What do I do? Could this be linked to the fact that I bought the subscription key thing in the U.S. and activated it in the Philippines through telephone activation because it was region locked? (They sent me an email with a link where it just required me to sign in and then it went to the install page)

Using a brand new Surface Pro 4 256gb i5 model

Update: Got past the first orange popup by forcing it to quit and restarting my surface then I got an error and then proceeded to click the help link on the error message then it made me download something and run that thing then now I downloaded the install .exe file again and ran it. Now I'm at the bigger white "Installing Office" with "We'll be done in just a moment" popup with the loading bar thing. I'm stuck at 15%. How long does this usually take and does it require internet? I have **** internet right now because of something called "Asia Pacific Downtime Blah Blah" my ISP keeps telling me.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-12-14T14:39:01+00:00

    Try running the installer as administrator, right click > Run as administrator. It worked for me. Hope it works for you too.

    Cheers,

    Aaron

    This solved my issue. Thank you!

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-18T01:11:50+00:00

    I had this problem stuck at "we're getting things ready". 

    And I have an eset anti-virus, since eset is blocking the https://****.com where my installation is needed to connect to, i got stuck. 

    So what I did is to temporarily block my eset anti-virus operation and its all good.

    My problem is resolved.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-15T02:43:52+00:00

    which menu to do this?

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-17T12:27:27+00:00

    bundles of thanks yar

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-08-12T07:43:31+00:00

    I tried the Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365 tool

    This was just what I needed - it tried to install Office and then gave me an error message explaining the problem. Quite why the installer UI can't do something similar is beyond me.

    Thanks Hendy!

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