Does the tool replace apps that I've deleted manually? However, if you see an error with all the documents you try to open, there's probably a deeper issue with the core app or template. The tool doesn't directly repair files that you've created such as. Can the tool repair damaged Word documents and Excel workbooks? The tool will check for common issues, and if it doesn't find anything obvious, it will go ahead and reset your preferences in an attempt to fix a deeper issue. Typically, you only want to run the tool if you're trying to solve a problem. I'm not experiencing any problems with Office. In the worst case scenario, if you choose to reset all apps and the tool finds that all of your apps have missed the last six updates (what it refers to as 'ancient') it will download and install the latest version of every Office app (approximately 3.5GB) - which will take some time to complete for the average home user. The time can vary between a minute and an hour, depending upon the state of your Mac and the options that you choose. Alternatively, if you're seeing a sign-in or license error in multiple apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), you should instead choose the 'Reset License and Sign-In' option. For example, if you're seeing an error every time you try to launch Excel, but the other Office apps seem to work just fine, you will want to choose only the 'Reset Excel' option. You should only select the checkboxes for the apps that you're having problems with. How do I know which checkboxes to select? Office-Reset automates this process for you and provides more options than just brute-force removal. There is a knowledge base article on how to remove Office manually but it's fairly involved and labor-intensive. These files live in some pretty obscure and hard to find places.

There are many other periphery files created when you launch, activate and sign-in to Office. The app that you see in your /Applications folder is just the program. If I'm having issues, can't I just simply download and reinstall Office?

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