Adam Ralph • 5/26/2018

PowerPoint and Word failing to open

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The article details a technical troubleshooting process for Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 on Windows 10. After standard repair and reinstall attempts failed, the author found a solution involving the manual deletion of specific registry keys (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Options\AppWindowPos and related PowerPoint keys) that were preventing Word and PowerPoint from launching, ultimately resolving the issue through systematic bisection of the registry.

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