Windows 10: Office 2013 not working with MS Word

I purchased Office 2013 from Amazon in 2015 It has worked fine on my desktop and notebook computers until recently. Now I get the message that it can't open Normal.dotm and a few other error messages that makes it impossible to open MS Word documents.

After trying to fix the problem on my own I decided to "repair" Office., The repair procedure says that I don't have Internet access - but I do. The repair without Internet access doesn't work either.

We're sorry we can't open **** because we found a problem with its contents.when allowing without internet access (that I do have) it asks that I allow closing some programs, which I allow. The response says "Done Repairing" yippee. But when I try to open a Word document I continue to get the error messages can't open Normal.dotm and a few other error messages.

How can I get my Office 2013 back?

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Browse not working on Office 2013

Hi John,

We found a thread that has the same issue with Office 2013 "Exception 0xe0000002", we suggest that you click and follow the troubleshooting steps provided by Doug Robbins on this

thread.

If you need further assistance, don't hesitate to reach out.

 

Can't save MS Office 2013 documents after Win10 upgrade from Win8.1


UPDATE:

• I loaded the Office 2016 trial, but it does NOT solve the problem. Exactly the same symptoms in Word 2016 as Word 2013
• Clarification - when I uninstalled MS Office 2013, I used Microsoft's special complete removal tool for this purpose. The complete removal tool wipes all MS Office related registry entries (unlike the normal 'Add / Remove Programs' which leaves such entries in place)

 

QUESTION: MS Word 2013 - Possible to run PORTABLE + SANDBOXED?

Howdy, Members:


1. It it possible to install MS Word 2013 only... (without other MS Office apps) to my new notebook as portable and sandboxed?

2. Is there an online Word editor that can competently accomplish this task without the necessity to install Word 2013 at all to local HDD?

NOTES

• I have existing .DOCX files that have REVISIONS in right column that must also be retained... which is my only interest in using Word 2013.
  

• It appears that LibreOffice or other alternatives do not handle MS Word revisions well... plus I need to retain the .DOCX format.

What would be your best recommendations?


THX. ~ Alan