Fix Microsoft Office Word Has Not Been Installed For The Current User Error

XINSTALL BY CLICKING THE DOWNLOAD FILE
To fix various PC problems, we recommend Restoro PC Repair Tool: This software will repair common computer errors, protect you from file loss, malware, hardware failure and optimize your PC for maximum performance. Fix PC issues and remove viruses now in 3 easy steps:
  1. Download Restoro PC Repair Tool that comes with Patented Technologies (patent available here).
  2. Click Start Scan to find Windows issues that could be causing PC problems.
  3. Click Repair All to fix issues affecting your computer's security and performance
  • Restoro has been downloaded by 0 readers this month.

Recently Microsoft came up with some updates that caused many users to get an error message saying “Microsoft Office Word has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application.” when you try to run it. After clicking the OK button, Microsoft Word closes. You’ll also be getting the same error message if you try to run any of the other office components such as Excel, Publisher, Access, Outlook etc. The worst part is uninstalling Microsoft Office and re-installing wouldn’t help to fix this problem. Before doing the above, you should at least use the official Microsoft Office Diagnostics tool to check if it has detected any other known problems.

Microsoft Office Word has not been installed for the current user

There’s a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on this issue and the solution is to give EVERYONE full control of the Opa11.dat file. Unfortunately this solution would only help to fix the problem when the non-administrative user accounts on the computer do not have permission to modify specific files that are used by the Office 2003 Setup program or the Office XP Setup program.

Another reason why this problem occurs is you have been knowingly or unknowingly using a pirated version of Microsoft Office and have recently installed the latest updates. Some people are able to resolve this issue by using system restore to go back to an earlier restore point, but here’s a simpler way to fix this problem.

The file that is causing this error is MSO.DLL located at:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office10

for Office XP,

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office11

for Office 2003 and

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office12

for Office 2007.

64-bit users can look in “\Program Files (x86)\Common Files…” for the dll. Microsoft has updated this file and it was distributed in one of the hotfixes to give you this error message when it detects a pirated copy of Office that is installed on your computer. When you try to run a repair or even uninstallation, the setup won’t touch the MSO.DLL file at all. That is why after repairing or uninstalling, you’ll still get the same error because the updated MSO.DLL is still there.

Replace Office MSO.dll file

The simple solution is to search for the file MSO.DLL on your computer and copy the older MSO.DLL file replacing the current one in Program Files. I found two versions of MSO.DLL in C:\WINDOWS\Installer\$PatchCache$\Managed\…..

If you can’t find the other backed up MSO.DLL file on your computer, it is available in uncompressed form on the Office 2003 CD but not the Office XP or 2007 CD’s because they’re packed inside a CAB file. Navigate to:

{Drive}\Files\Pfiles\Common\MSShared\Office11\

Or you can simply delete all the currently installed MSO.DLL files from Program Files and $PatchCache$ etc, then perform a repair or reinstallation of Microsoft Office XP, 2003 or 2007. That would restore the older version of MSO.DLL from the installation CD for you.

If you are struggling to find an original MSO.DLL from a computer search or your Office CD, the easiest thing to do is download one of the zip files below which contains the correct original version of the MSO.DLL file to copy onto your system. These files aren’t downloaded from elsewhere on the internet and are taken straight from the relevant Office CD, simply unzip the file and copy it to the correct folder in “Microsoft Shared\OfficeXX” given above.

Download MSO.DLL for Office XP.

Download MSO.DLL for Office 2003

Download MSO.DLL for Office 2007

Download MSO.DLL for Office 2010

Download MSO.DLL for Office 2013

We know pirating software is bad, but Microsoft has started to teach pirates a lesson by giving such annoyances as the Windows XP Black Screen to some users who may not even realize that they have a pirated version of Office installed by a computer shop?

98 Comments - Write a Comment

  1. Nesor 1 year ago
  2. Rdt 5 years ago
  3. anon 7 years ago
  4. Amy 7 years ago
  5. Mahboob Anwar 7 years ago
    • HAL9000 7 years ago
  6. j 8 years ago
  7. Tiger 8 years ago
  8. Pelisa 8 years ago
  9. ryan 8 years ago
  10. n8 8 years ago
  11. Hossam Khaled 9 years ago
  12. John Mark 9 years ago
  13. Andrew 10 years ago
  14. Raghu 10 years ago
  15. Arlette 10 years ago
  16. Biffo 10 years ago
  17. AlphaTheRainmaker 11 years ago
  18. RB 11 years ago
  19. James 11 years ago
    • kaif 11 years ago
  20. pepe 12 years ago
  21. Hank Scorpio 12 years ago
  22. Mail 12 years ago
  23. Guest 12 years ago
  24. Michael 13 years ago
  25. Kenyon 13 years ago
  26. Rafay 13 years ago
  27. Norak 13 years ago
  28. Valentine 13 years ago
  29. Bob 13 years ago
  30. Ben 13 years ago
  31. ndazcom 13 years ago
  32. marco 13 years ago
  33. glow 13 years ago
  34. Hami 13 years ago
  35. Thank 13 years ago
  36. Piter 13 years ago
  37. Oracloid 13 years ago
  38. Ahwin 13 years ago
  39. prakash 13 years ago
  40. Outlook 2007 User 13 years ago
  41. majick 13 years ago
  42. VW 13 years ago
  43. Petie 13 years ago
  44. Dudu 13 years ago
  45. Julia 13 years ago
  46. Aguykribob 14 years ago
  47. Eben 14 years ago
  48. sachin 14 years ago
  49. Sorin 14 years ago
  50. shi 14 years ago
  51. K 14 years ago
  52. ComputerBoob 14 years ago
  53. hana 14 years ago
  54. curious dan 14 years ago
  55. Bian 14 years ago
  56. bio 14 years ago
  57. Sérginho 14 years ago
  58. Wuvulo 14 years ago
  59. Miguel 14 years ago
  60. Andrea 14 years ago
  61. Anneli 14 years ago
  62. Vijay 14 years ago
  63. Anonymous 14 years ago
  64. freddie 14 years ago
  65. kamal 14 years ago
  66. Salman 14 years ago
  67. nad 14 years ago
  68. christian 14 years ago
  69. ammen 14 years ago
  70. costex 14 years ago
  71. Tanja 14 years ago
  72. Adam 14 years ago
  73. SandyDi 14 years ago
  74. sami 14 years ago
  75. ingovonknito 14 years ago
  76. Bibo 14 years ago
  77. VaN 14 years ago
  78. Windows7 14 years ago
  79. Shahnawaz Awan 14 years ago
  80. Tan 14 years ago
  81. Martyn 14 years ago
  82. AmonRaT 14 years ago
  83. Antony Raj 15 years ago
  84. User 15 years ago
  85. Gizew 15 years ago
  86. Martyn 15 years ago
  87. cheem 15 years ago
  88. OwaisSandho 15 years ago
  89. rera_avis 15 years ago
  90. BigDog 15 years ago
  91. 808 15 years ago
  92. ding dong 15 years ago
  93. Merlin_Magii 15 years ago
  94. longman 15 years ago
  95. roy raay 15 years ago
  96. Utkarsh 15 years ago

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Note: Your comment is subject to approval. Read our Terms of Use. If you are seeking additional information on this article, please contact us directly.