Office 2013 Crashing on start

[Simian]

I've not had a problem with Office 2013 Pro, since installing it 18 months ago on my Windows 8.1.1 64bit system.

But yesterday when I tried to open Outlook it crashed with the message below...

(not my image as I didn't screengrab at the time)

I thought it was just outlook, so tried in Safe mode to see if it was an add-in causing it, but the same happened.

So i tried Word, Excel, Powerpoint tc... all crashed with the same error message!!...

Looking online some people mention a program called AaBbYy reader (or summut) causing the problem! but I don't have that!

Anyone else encounter this problem with Office 2013?? how did you rectify it??

I don't really want to have to wipe and re-install, but if that's what required, I suppose I'll have to!

 

[Jasseh]

This can apparently check for problems with your Microsoft Office installation, give it a try?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36852

Also, this article says to update your video drivers, can't see that being the issue but again, worth a try:

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2768648?wa=wsignin1.0