Some Notes on the Machines

Use this as the cell format:

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Gets rid of all custom names, and while doing so, gets rid of a lot of external references which may prevent you from deleting Links.

Excellent tool.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/microsoft-support-and-recovery-assistant-sara-e90bb691-c2a7-4697-a94f-88836856c72f

From the indefatigable Mike Crayton:

https://www.thecloudjournal.net/2016/08/reset-microsoft-office-product-activation-status/

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/How-To-Reset-Office-01cf9c07

This can help a lot when Office will not activate.

There is a way:

https://rakhesh.com/windows/enabling-disabled-office-add-ins-automatically/

When recent versions of Outlook and other Office applications run certain plugins, sometimes the result will come up in a separate window called “AdxTaskPane”. To prevent this:

1. File > Options > General > User Interface options
2. Choose “Optimize for compatibility (application restart required)”
3. Restart the application

Try step #1 here:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/odsupport/2015/05/01/how-to-reset-an-office-365-install-to-the-initial-activationinstall-state/

Courtesy of the extraordinary Mike Crayton.

It’s called the “Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool”, or OffCAT. Courtesy of the excellent Kaleb Carrol.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36852

Microsoft-provided removal tools for Office. A new page for 2007 through 2016:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Office-from-a-PC-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Fix-Its now exist for Office 2010, 2007, and 2003:

http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/971179

A utility for manual removal of Office versions at and before XP, is reportedly in the 2003 Office Resource Kit, confirmed available at the link below as of right now, although the installer appears to crash:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/d/0eda9ae6-f5c9-44be-98c7-ccc3016a296a/ork.exe

This article states that it applies to click-to-run 2013 and later, which certainly includes 365. Its registry entries permit automatic updates to be turned off and on, and also, for the on-PC UI item to be turned off and on too.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2753538/automatic-updating-for-office-2013-and-office-2016-click-to-run-is-not-enabled