What Is Office Safe Mode? When you start an Office application in Safe Mode, it will load without any add-ins or extensions, and without toolbar or command bar customizations. Any recovered documents that would normally be opened automatically will not open. AutoCorrect and various other features won’t work, and preferences can’t be saved.
If Office is crashing every time you open it, it’s probably the result of a buggy add-on—but it may also be the result of an issue with your customizations. Safe Mode loads without all these features that can cause you trouble. RELATED: This is different from.
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In Windows Safe Mode, your whole Windows operating system is restarted without third-party drivers and other startup software that can cause problems. This is a similar idea, but for Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint only.
Launch Safe Mode with a Keyboard Shortcut To open any Office application in Safe Mode, press the Ctrl key and hold it down while you launch the program’s shortcut. For example, to launch Word in Safe Mode, you’ll need to locate the Word shortcut in your Start menu, on your taskbar, or on your desktop.
Press and hold the Ctrl key and either single-click it (if it’s in your Start menu or on your taskbar) or double-click it (if it’s on your desktop). You’ll see a message saying “You’re holding down the CTRL key. Do you want to start Application in Safe Mode?”.
You can release the Ctrl key when this message box appears. Click “OK” to launch the application in Safe Mode. Launch Safe Mode with a Command Argument You can also launch Office applications in Safe Mode by launching them with the /safe option. For example, you can do this from the Run dialog.
Press Windows+R to open it, and then type one of the following commands:. Word: winword /safe. Excel: excel /safe. PowerPoint: powerpnt /safe. Outlook: outlook /safe. Publisher: mspub /safe. Visio: visio /safe Press Enter or click “OK” and the application will launch in Safe Mode.
If you need to open an Office application in Safe Mode regularly, you could make a new desktop shortcut to the Office application and add /safe to the end of the Target box on its Shortcut pane. That shortcut would then always launch the application in Safe Mode.
How to Leave Safe Mode To leave Safe Mode, you will need to close the Office application and launch it normally. If Office loads fine in Safe Mode but crashes in normal mode, the problem is likely a buggy add-in. You can view these by selecting File Options Add-ins in Office 2016. You may need to uninstall, reinstall, or update one or more add-ins of Office keeps crashing. If Office still crashes in Safe Mode, its files may be corrupted.
You may want to uninstall and reinstall Office on your computer.
I am in need of some help. This morning i updated office 2011 - word is working fine but excel is all out of sorts. These are the messages i am getting when i try to open a file.
The names of the files are showing up so i don't feel like excel was deleted or anything. Excel is showing up on the toolbar above but is giving me these messages. What to do??? Thanks to all in advance. Here is additional info Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0 Error Signature: Exception: EXCBADACCESS Date/Time: 2012-04-17 22:21:55 -0400 Application Name: Microsoft Excel Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Excel Application Signature: XCEL Application Version: 14.2.0.120402 Crashed Module Name: libobjc.A.dylib Crashed Module Version: unknown Crashed Module Offset: 0x00005f87 Blame Module Name: MBURibbon Blame Module Version: 14.2.0.120402 Blame Module Offset: 0x000191cc Application LCID: 1033 Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409 Crashed thread: 0.
I have had 2011 since it came out. I have been operating it without problem until this morning. Admittedly, I haven't opened anything in a week or two, but now I am having the exact same problem. Excel, specifically, will not open. I get the error message as above.
Unlike the OP, I have nothing on my desktop, so that isn't the problem. Also, the problem exists whether opeing a file directly, or double-clicking in the application itself. Same whether opening from Dock or Apps Folder. Can't figure it out.