Windows 10: Updates for Office 2010 fail to install in W10

The title says it all.

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Uninstalled Office 2010 while Update for Office 2010 was downloading, now update downloaded fails and stays there

On a Windows 10 laptop, I uninstalled Office 2010 in favor of Office 365 recently installed. I did not realize that an Update for Office 2010 was downloading at the time. Now the Office 2010 update downloaded fails and stays there as a failed update.
How do I tell Windows that the downloaded update should be discarded?

 

Security Update for Microsoft OneNote 2010 (KB3054978) 32-Bit Edition

I had already tried that route, it was a no go. I then spent 3 hours in Chat MS Support. That in the end still failed to fix. Spent another 3 with a second Support guy, his "final answer" reinstall W 10 via Creation Tool.

I felt that was a FAIL so I instead uninstalled Office 2010. Let W10 reboot and add a myriad of updates. That got me to W10 build 1511 update which loaded without a hiccup.

I then reinstalled Office 2010 and finally after these many hours it reinstalled all the updates including the offending culprit. WINNER!!!

Thanks for helping.

 

You could click on office 2010 in programs and features, click on change and choose repair. Then while in word for example, check for updates.

Just an idea.

 

No problems with updates for 2010 here. Then again I installed this,

Download Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 64-Bit Edition from Official Microsoft Download Center

Download Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 32-Bit Edition from Official Microsoft Download Center

first, and then let Windows Update finish the rest. Worth a shot.

 

That's one of the ones that failed so did your's fail at first also?

 

Ha! It said that no products on this computer that are affect by this update! Why was it trying to install it??

 

Try SP1 first,

Download Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2460049) 64-bit Edition from Official Microsoft Download Center

 

Good call, downloading now and it isn't in my already installed update list although I downloaded again from my Amazon purchase history so it might have SP1 included. A repair install did help as it did install a few more that wouldn't before.

 

*Mad Same response as SP2!

 

I kept on trying to install SP2, some it would hang on preparing to install, installing or checking for updates. Left the room on preparing to update SP2 and find it downloading more updates! Finally it had installed SP2 and I have no updates. The updates must have out of sequence stopping SP2 from installing, once that installed more updates were required. Thanks for the help! *Biggrin

 

Yesterday's WUP reinstalled many of the Office updates that were installed when I had this Office update problem a week ago. New Office updates created the need to reinstall previous updates???