
Outside of that, there's nothing about how you're describing your use of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that couldn't be covered by any available wordprocessing, spreadsheet, or presentation software.

Additionally, the Microsoft 365 consumer offerings do offer the desktop clients that can be used offline. I was worried I’d have to shell out $$$ for a new Office Suite/365 never ending subscription or live with a “stuck” update indefinitely.Based on your post, the only thing I can really respond with definitively is that Office 2007 went end of life in October 2017 and is no longer supported. It then checked for updates, didn’t offer me the Office Validation Add-In and declared “You’re up to date” with green checkmark.

Then I Clicked “Advanced Options” and toggled off “Receive Updates for other Microsoft products when you update Windows”.įinally, I rebooted (not sure if reboot was necessary), went to Windows Update, clicked “Resume Updates” and toggled back on “Receive Updates for other Microsoft products when you update Windows” To clear that out, I went to “Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update” and paused updates for 7 days. However, in Windows Update it was still sitting there waiting for me to review/accept the license agreement, which I could not do and I could not clear out the “stuck” pending OFV update. Got it installed (confirmed via Programs and Features: Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In, Microsoft Corporation, 10.7MB, version. It wouldn’t let me accept the license agreement and just said (error encountered). I was having a similar issue on a Windows 10 machine. Magic CDF V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 6.0, Code page: 1252, Title: Installation Database, Subject: Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In, Author: Microsoft Corporation, Keywords: Installer, MSI, Database, Release, Comments: This Installer database contains the logic and data required to install Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In., Template: Intel SSDEEP 49152:tr5Nj/aeBVUSoYV2tHxJUMTEuzVesIBmQ5ruPZ:5/as32tRx3I0Q5ru The file size and hashes of each of my copies match and show no signs of malware or virus when analyzed by VirusTotal ( ): All 3 of my copies are all digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation Friday, January 14, 2011 11:49:40 AM. I also compared it to a version on another system.

I allowed the download in my browser (Firefox) and compared it to the version I took out of Windows Update (C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download) as stated in this post.

Your browser is blocking it because the download request is being done over http and not https.
