{"id":1737,"date":"2013-09-16T06:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-11-04T08:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:56:22","slug":"september-microsoft-automatic-updates-breaks-access-to-office-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/september-microsoft-automatic-updates-breaks-access-to-office-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"September Microsoft Automatic Update breaks access to Office documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/broken-file-associations-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1756\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" alt=\"Broken Office file associations icons\" src=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/broken-file-associations-copy.png\" width=\"169\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/broken-file-associations-copy.png 169w, https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/broken-file-associations-copy-150x133.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re having problems opening your Microsoft Office documents or spreadsheets, or emailing such files, a Microsoft Update is the likely culprit. Other symptoms of the bad update include your document icons may change to orange, and trying to open them gives a prompt to install, purchase or activate Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the problem go to the Control Panel &gt; Programs and Features &gt; right-click on <strong>Microsoft Office Starter 2010- English<\/strong>\u00a0and click &#8220;Change&#8221;.\u00a0This will Repair Microsoft Office and should fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>See this <a title=\"Click here to read the article\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/office_sustained_engineering\/archive\/2013\/09\/18\/office-2010-starter-edition-file-type-associations-missing-after-september-2013-update.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft TechNet article about the problem<\/a>\u00a0if you are still having problems after the repair, or want to learn more.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/september-microsoft-automatic-updates-breaks-access-to-office-documents\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print This Article\" title=\"Print This Article\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/september-microsoft-automatic-updates-breaks-access-to-office-documents\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\">Print This Article<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re having problems opening your Microsoft Office documents or spreadsheets, or emailing such files, a Microsoft Update is the likely culprit. Other symptoms of the bad update include your document icons may change to orange, and trying to open them gives a prompt to install, purchase or activate Microsoft Office. To fix the problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}