Office 365 Applications Not Opening – Error Solved
Office 365 is now renamed as Microsoft 365 and it is used by many individuals and organizations. Microsoft 365 is advanced and secure technical invention. But, it can also be fail to respond on certain queries. In this writeup I will discuss the reasons behind Office 365 applications not opening issues and verified solutions for same.
This problem has been reported by several Microsoft Office users. The following are some user-based scenarios that end users have asked on various tech forums, social networking sites.
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“The Microsoft Office 365 applications not opening. I tried to fix the problem by restarting my machine multiple times. When I am opening the Office 365 suite, I get ‘Something went wrong’ error message. The application was working perfectly until and unless I have installed a new printer. But, I also uninstalled it still, the problem exists. What to do now?”
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“Don’t know why but, all of sudden I am unable to start any of the Microsoft Office 365 programs. I used Quick repair solution and it didn’t give any result. All things were good till last night, I don’t know how this problem occurred. Please someone help me out by providing a suitable approach for resolving ‘Office 365 programs won’t open’ problem.”
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“Since last week, I am not able to work with any of the Microsoft O365 University version. A dialog appears and flashes ‘Something went wrong. We couldn’t start your program. Try repairing Office from Programs and Features’ error statement. I used repairing solution but, it didn’t work. What else can be done to fix this Office 365 apps not starting issue? I am working with Windows 8 64-bit, Office 2013 version.”
Solution to Fix ‘Office 365 Applications Not Opening’ Issue
If Microsoft Office 365 has stopped working or is not opening normally, you might be unable to work or modify Word file or modify Excel files. Take help of following steps to troubleshoot the Microsoft Office 365 won’t open problem :
1. Click on Start icon of Windows 10 / 8 / 7 and click on Control Panel from the menu
2. This opens the Control Panel window where you have to select Programs >> Programs and Features
3. Right-click on the Office 365, Office 2013, or 2016 and choose Change option
4. Click on the Online Repair and then on, Repair button.
5. Patiently wait for the entire repairing procedure to finish and restart Windows PC
6. Now check whether your ‘Office 365 program/applications will not open’ is fixed or not
If the above repairing solution does not work then, uninstall and reinstall the Office program. For this, you can go through the following guidelines :
a) Download o15-ctrremove.diagcab tool from official Microsoft website
b) Install the setup file of this free utility and when complete installation takes place, a Microsoft Office window gets opened.
c) Click on Next button and then, proceed with the prompting screens to resolve the Office 365 programs won’t open error
d) When you encounter Uninstallation successful window, follow the current screen by restarting your system. This will make the changes for taking the effects into action.
e) Try to reinstall the Office 365 programs again and see whether your problem is resolved or not
Note: – Check out the simplest way to backup Office 365 emails.
Conclusion
The common and free solutions to fix ‘Office 365 applications not opening’ problem is resolved in this post. Even if the issue persists then, it means that severely corrupted files associated with Microsoft Office applications is present on your machine.
The only solution to remove corruption i.e., “Office 365 applications will not open” from those files is to opt for 3rd party Office recovery software. We are recommending you this solution because only these products are programmed with advance coding to eliminate high level of corruption from damaged Office 365 files.
