Applies ToOffice 2016 Office 2013 Office for business Office 365 Small Business Microsoft 365 admin

If you're getting one of the following errors when trying to open your Office 2013 documents, spreadsheets, or presentations, you can now install an Office 2013 update to fix this problem by starting one of your Office 2013 applications like Word 2013, and then clicking File > Account > Update Options > Update Now. After install the update, the Office version should be 15.0.4745.1002 or later.

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  • Word: Word experienced an error trying to open the file

  • Excel: This file is corrupt and cannot be opened

  • PowerPoint: one of the following:

    • The application was unable to start correctly

    • PowerPoint found a problem with <filename>

    • Sorry, PowerPoint can’t read <filename>

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