Registry Clean and Repair

90% of the time, I do not recommend editing the registry yourself. For example, if your PC is very slow, delayed or otherwise has some other performance issue then I recommend getting a good registry cleaner (see the free scan below).

BUT if you have a Microsoft Office problem that seems very small or generic in nature, then you might want to try the below fix (close all other programs first).

Microsoft Office Registry Key Fix

• Open the Registry Editor by going to Start Button, Run, then type “regedit”.
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software, Microsoft, Office.
• Now here you will see many different version numbers. The easiest way to find out which version you have is to expand the folders and see which has the most configuration data within  it. In my case it’s folder “12.0″ which corresponds to the 2007 version of Office that I’m using. But I didn’t know that before I checked.
• Rename the appropriate folder (for me it would be the “12.0″ folder) as something else e.g. “old 12.0″.
• Now close Registry Editor and relaunch Office, you may see a few status messages.

This trick doesn’t work for everything but it does help with some small MS Office problems. I still recommend that you perform a full registry scan using a good third party program like the free registry scan below.