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Over the past few days, I kept receiving the notification from Word that it needs updating, however, when I go to update it, I get the message
'Update error...Updates are temporarily unavailable, please try again in a few minutes.
Shortly after, this is followed by another pop-up that states 'There was a problem with the Microsoft Update Assistant and your recent work might be lost. We apologise for the inconvenience.'
It gives me the option to restart the update assistant, which I have done a number of times, however, I just get exactly the same problem over and over again. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Did you use a tool like CleanMyMac the remove "universal Binaries"?
I had that a couple of days ago, downloading and re-install it from the Microsoft AutoUpdate Release history page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/release-history-microsoft-autoupdate
Good luck!
Try typing:
- launchctl stop /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.update.agent.plist
- launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.update.agent.plist
It worked for me thanks to a Microsoft support agent.
AWESOME! This worked for me as well. The only thing that worked!
OMG! Thank you so much! This worked like a charm. ❤️
Type it in the 'terminal' app
I'm sorry I'm not a tech person. Where would I type this in at?