Use Microsoft’s “Fix It” tool to completely remove Office 365. This tool is especially important for Macs, where users often try to remove Office by deleting files from the Applications folder. Fix it tool for Windows.

Microsoft Office is certainly the most advanced productivity suite out there for computer as well as smartphone operating systems. While it’s true that most users never use advanced options, there are some lesser known feature that most users are not aware of.

When it comes to repairing a damaged document, most users prefer using third-party tools. Very few third-party document repairing tools are actually free and most of them have size limitations.

Open and repair feature in Microsoft Office

Very few PC and Office users are aware about Microsoft Office program’s ability to repair damaged documents. If you’re wondering if this document repairing feature is specific to Office 2016 and Office 365, you will be surprised to know that the feature is present in earlier versions of Office such as Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010 and Office 2013 as well. And the best part is, the feature actually works.

With the help of this handy feature, one can repair all document types supported by Microsoft Office. In short, you can repair documents created by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other applications of Office.

You can consider a document is damaged or corrupted when a document exhibit one of the following behaviour:

# Unreadable characters

# Error while opening the document

# Error while saving the document

# PC hangs or stops responding while opening the document

# Repeated redoes and page breaks

According to Microsoft, Microsoft Office automatically tries to repair a document if it detects a problem with the document which you’re trying to open using Microsoft Office program. However, at times, you might want to manually open and repair a document.

Use Microsoft Office to repair documents in Windows

Step 1: Launch Office Word, Excel or any other program that supports the document that want to repair. That is, if you have a .docx file, open Word program and if you have a .pptx file, you need to open Office PowerPoint.

Step 2: Now, click the File menu and then click Open option.

Step 3: When you see the following screen, click Browse button.

Step 4: Browse to the document which you want to repair, select it, and then click the small down arrow button adjacent to the Open button as shown in the picture below.

Step 5: Click Open and repair option to open the document and repair it. Simple as that!

Did you know that you can open Microsoft Office in safe mode as well?

Be it Microsoft Office 365, Office 2016 or Office 2013, uninstalling an version of Office from Windows PC has always been easy. You just need to open Programs and Features window in Control Panel, right-click on Office entry and then click Uninstall option to begin uninstalling Microsoft Office suite from your PC.

Office 365 Repair Tool Download

At times, you might get an error while uninstalling a version of Microsoft Office. Errors such as “Microsoft Office uninstall did not complete successfully” and “Couldn’t uninstall Office” are common error messages while trying to remove Office from Windows PC.

When you are getting an error while attempting to uninstall Office, you can use third-party uninstallers like CCleaner and Geek Uninstaller but there is an official utility available to completely remove Microsoft Office products from your Windows PC.

Uninstall Microsoft Office is a free troubleshooting tool from Microsoft designed to help you completely remove Office applications as well as settings from your PC.

This Uninstall Microsoft Office tool can be used to uninstall Microsoft Office 365, Office 2016 and Office 2013 products on your PC. Here is how to use Uninstall Microsoft Office utility to remove Office from your PC.

Uninstall Microsoft Office from your Windows 10/8/7 PC

Step 1: Head over to this page of Office support. Under, Option 2-Completely uninstall Office with the easy fix tool section, click the Download button to download Uninstall Microsoft Office tool.

Step 2: Run the utility. Click Next button to let the tool search for installed version of Office.

Step 3: When you see the following screen with “Completely remove all Office apps and settings from your PC”, click Yes button to begin uninstalling Office product from your PC.

Office 365 Repair Tool

Hope this helps!