'Upgrade to Office 2016' - what an innocuous phrase; what hellish consequences. I duly upgraded, and found I couldn't access Onenote 2013, only Onenote 2010. I’d spent much of yesterday filing 'stuff’ in Onenote, couldn't face doing it all again, so decided I'd revert to Office 2013. I tried using widgets and gadgets; following instructions such as 'download this' and 'delete that'; and after 4 hours not only couldn't access Onenote 2013, but also couldn't open any Word documents.
I restored the system - twice. No joy.
This called for an extreme solution. I wiped all versions of Office from the hard drive disc, reinstalled Office 365 (with Office 2013 apps), and, hardly daring to breath, tried clicking Word icon - and everything there was accessible; then tried clicking the Onenote icon - and everything there was accessible - AND without the need to log on to some cloud or other. (Clouds are not useful with an internet connection as sluggish as mine.)
And settled down to write what I set out to write some hours earlier, only to find I needed to disable some fancy widget to stop the cursor driving me mad by flailing along behind my typing ~~~~
I hate - simply hate Windows upgrades!!!!
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