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Issues installing Office 365 on pc with/without Edge Chromium
If you've installed Office lots of times before, you must know whether it is installed successfully in the end or not, right? when you go to Control panel or Windows settings => Apps, do you see Office 365 installed?
Are you receiving any errors?
do you see Word, Excel in Start menu? how about when you search for them?
The Progressive Web Apps (PWA) reside here: edge://apps/
I don't get any errors, nothing. The install goes fine, both on 'old' Edge and 'new' Edge.
Installed Office quite a number of times.
The only difference is, with 'old' Edge I get the 'normal' Office 365.
With Edge Chromium I get the 'online version', so without the toolbar, with the file menu etc.
I don't know why this, spent quite some time on figuring this out.
Maybe it is me only, but it is weird. After resetting the laptop, Office install went fine, i.e. I get the normal version (with the toolbars).
I assumed you're on Windows 10, but from the screenshot looks like you're using Windows 7, right?
or using something like Startisback to change the start menu? I don't knowCheck here, my Office 365 pro plus files are in this folder
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16
If your Office installation was successful, you should see this folder full of files. search for "WINWORD.EXE" and "EXCEL.EXE"
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Thanks for the tip. This morning I gave it again a try and installed Office 365 on my laptop, with... Edge Chromium.
Again Outlook, Excel were launched as online.
Then, indeed, I went on to search for the .exe files. They were there in ..\Root\Office16 folder.
Pinned them to the start menu.
It is working fine now.Thank you both for the tip!
Have to confess, did not think of this solution.
Instead I gave it another try and another try, assuming I was doing something wrong in the setup.
Still though ...
even though the issue is solved now, with your help and this r-click pinning to start workaround, it remains strange nonetheless. I know people who are not familiar with forums, hence they would not be able to solve this. They expect the software to work properly 'out of the box'.
Again, many thanks!
- I'm glad you fixed your problem,
But lots of questions remain though, and for someone else who might find this question it will be confusing.
1. Which version of Windows are you using?
2. are you using any tools that modifies Start Menu and its behavior?
