MS Office Live Addin for 2007 Causing Word, Excel and Powerpoint to Crash on Vista

Posted on August 6, 2009 at 17:44

I ran Windows Update a few days ago, and it ended up installing an add in for MS Office, to allow connectivity with Office Live Workspace. Very soon afterwards, Word, Excel and Powerpoint started to crash immediately after they were started up. The Office Live add in is the culprit. I was able to open up Word in safe mode (hold down Ctrl) and deactivate the add in, after which Word started working again. After I uninstalled the add in from my computer, Excel and Powerpoint are working again.

I am not the first person to whom this happened. Hopefully my wasted time figuring this out can help save someone out there a few hours.

  1. 2 Responses to “MS Office Live Addin for 2007 Causing Word, Excel and Powerpoint to Crash on Vista”

  2. 1) Ernest on Aug 13, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you for your post.

    I’ve been searching around and trying install and uninstall for the last 2 hours. Then I found your post and after uninstalling Office Live, Word works fine again!

    Thanks Microsoft NOT!

  3. 2) Pero on Nov 3, 2009 | Reply

    Switch to google docs. This sucks.

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