Updating office and getting an error message (Office for Windows)

Anonymous
2020-02-11T19:34:37+00:00

I have tried to open a word / excel document. 

It says it is updating, please wait a moment. 

After a few minutes I get a message saying: 

WINWORD.EXE - Application Error - This application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.

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  1. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-05-21T07:54:04+00:00

    Hi , personnally, it appears once a month, I found a fix by killing - using task manager - OfficeClickToRun.exe, then restarting MSOffice application. Can't explain why it suddenly blocked MSOffice, but it works each time. 

    Which version of Office are you running? Note that Office needs to contact the activation servers about once a month, to confirm the license. Perhaps something happens on your system during that check. Try repairing your installation; see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/repair-an-office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b.

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  2. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-05-12T12:17:32+00:00

    Thanks for the follow-up. Yes, there has been an issue with Office, especially with Outlook, during the past hours. See https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/text-is-missing-in-outlook-emails/75b367fd-3e3e-4759-b2c5-026c1a748056.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-12T11:38:02+00:00

    Thanks for your response. But it turns out that it was a Microsoft error in their updates. When I spoke with my tech he advised that he had already had 4 other clients call him with same issue. My outlook came right about 2hrs after I noticed the erro. I believe it was via a MS update.

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  4. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-05-12T09:32:24+00:00

    This is not helpful for Office 365

    You can repair Office 365/Microsoft 365 too, assuming that you are running Office under Windows. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/repair-an-office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-05-11T23:22:28+00:00

    This is not helpful for Office 365

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