There are two basic types of options that you can define in Word: This article describes various methods that you can use to reset user options and registry settings in Microsoft Office Word. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, see Description of the Microsoft Windows registry. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. Make sure to back up the registry before you modify it. I have tried IObit Uninstaller 10.3 Pro, but that left the same things as the Windows removal tool.This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Is there another tool to COMPLETELY remove Office from a Windows 10 PC (one that actually works)? I fear I will have to completely rebuild her PC to give her the clean start she needs to solve her Outlook issue. This time I am going to try the removal again and I will manually delete the Office associated folders in apps/local and apps/roaming as well as any other folders that I can find on the system that seem related to any version of Office. WTF, right? I mean, just what the hell good is an Office removal tool if it doesn't actually REMOVE OFFICE? I then opened Outlook (the thing she was having issues with) and somehow her email accounts and emails were all still there. Thinking that the last hour uninstalling Office actually removed all traces of Office 365, I logged into the Microsoft account and re-installed Office 365. Not sure why.but whatever.Īfter the removal, I ran a little tool that cleans up shortcuts to files that no longer exist, registry entries and such and then I rebooted.

In short order I found an Office Removal Tool that says that it removes Office 365 and a bunch of other Office versions. I ran the normal uninstaller for Office 365, but I wanted to make sure that every trace of Office 365 was gone. It didn't help.Īfter trying several other things, I thought that a complete removal and reinstallation of Office 365 may be helpful. I have tried replacing the NK2 file and deleting and recreating the contacts that this happened to. Since the link is stale, emails and meeting requests sent to the person associated with the funky old address just bounce back.

This time it's Outlook.Įvery once in a while on one particular workstation and (to a far lesser extent) occasionally on one or two other office PC's, Outlook somehow grabs and holds onto a 'stale' IMEX record that I assume it gets from the Exchange server. As usual, Microsoft products are not acting as they should.

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