Comments on: Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.

By: lyons

lyons — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:43:45 +0000

Same issue every time any office product is opened since the update was installed…. Very poor QA/QC on Microsoft’s part. I am not willing to uninstall and re-install as I have no assurances this will be allowed, or that it will fix the problem. Microsoft should fix this and issue another UPDATE that fixes the prior one.

By: Dave Wedd

Dave Wedd — Tue, 13 May 2014 12:26:32 +0000

I’m having the same “updates for office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps” problem, but this is on an Asus with Windows 8.1 and Office Home & Student fully paid-for, not Office 365. I’m on a mobile connection, so very reluctant to try uninstalling and reinstalling with no guarantee that it will fix it.

By: Aaron Garcia

Aaron Garcia — Mon, 12 May 2014 09:02:18 +0000

I have had the same problem too,

clearly “its not all up to date” as per the display message as such its a bug and in microsoft’s validation code, – more worrying for me is that it shows poor testing.

By: Tim Lawson

Tim Lawson — Thu, 08 May 2014 11:45:49 +0000

I’ve had the same problem for a few days now on my Surface Pro 2 running windows 8.1.

I have considered reinstalling or running the repair office program. It seems this is a new bug. I even switched off my firewall to see if that was blocking updates being applied. No luck there. My guess is it is yet another bug we have to deal with…. sigh….

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 08 May 2014 07:05:40 +0000

Same here since this morning. What on earth are you doing to us Microsoft?

By: will

will — Tue, 06 May 2014 21:38:09 +0000

i’ve the same issue

no fix I’ve seen so far – MSFT site basically says “turn off and on again” – advising a full re-install of office… which is obviously unhelpful. Been happening to a lot of people since end of april

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-office_install/microsoft-office-2013-error-code-30045-6-updates/e8569d26-043e-4a32-9996-18f6554665c9?rtAction=1398963258849

By: Christi De VOs

Christi De VOs — Tue, 06 May 2014 09:36:23 +0000

Same issue and no way of getting rid of it

By: jeffrey N. Carre

jeffrey N. Carre — Mon, 05 May 2014 17:17:33 +0000

Same problem here …

By: GERRIT STEGEMAN

GERRIT STEGEMAN — Mon, 05 May 2014 08:37:21 +0000

Same here and a nuisance as windows 8 is to me in general. I am NOT happy with the changes in respect to Windows XP. Mybe Windows 8.1 might give a solution?

By: Gunnar Hovstadius

Gunnar Hovstadius — Thu, 01 May 2014 13:15:03 +0000

I get exactly the same thing and have not been able to solve it.