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How do I resolve a winword.exe application error?

hja64

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Sep 26, 2019
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When attempting to open up word or office etc it says updating office, please wait then it tells me the application was unable to start correctly (0x0000142) and I cannot access any of my documents. Tried restoring to an earlier date but this has not resolved the issue, presumably because the files are protected?