If you encounter issues with Microsoft Office applications after installing the latest updates, reverting to a previous version may be necessary. This is often simpler than diagnosing the underlying problems. This guide applies specifically to the Click-to-Run (C2R) versions of Office 2021, 2019, 2016, and Microsoft 365 Apps.<\/p>\n
For MSI versions of Office, you can uninstall the latest update through Settings<\/em> \u2192 Windows Update<\/em> \u2192 Update History<\/em> \u2192 Uninstall Updates<\/em>. However, this method isn’t applicable for C2R versions, which are the most widely used today. C2R versions do not receive updates via the Windows Update channel; instead, updates are continuously delivered via Microsoft’s CDN, meaning the latest version is always installed.<\/p>\n To check which version of Office you have, open any Office application (like Word) and navigate to File<\/em> \u2192 Account<\/em>. For instance, if you have MS Office 2019 C2R installed, the build number will be found by clicking the About<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n Next, check the Office Update channel by locating the UpdateBranch<\/strong> parameter in the registry under If you wish to revert to a previous version, begin by disabling the auto-update feature. Go to File<\/em> \u2192 Account<\/em> \u2192 Update Options<\/em>, and select Disable Updates<\/strong>. This prevents Office from updating itself back to the latest version.<\/p>\n To find out the build number of the version you want to roll back to:<\/p>\n Once you’ve identified the build number to revert to, open a command prompt as an administrator and change the directory to:<\/p>\n Then, input the command to roll back to your desired version:<\/p>\n For example, to revert to version 16.0.18129.20158, you would use the command:<\/p>\n If you are using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) for installation, you can specify the target version in the XML configuration file:<\/p>\n Then, run the installation command:<\/p>\n Make sure to re-enable automatic updates after a determined period to avoid missing critical security updates or fixes.<\/p>\n For immediate updates to the latest version of C2R MS Office, use:<\/p>\n This process should help you manage your Office versions effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you encounter issues with Microsoft Office applications after installing the latest updates, reverting to a previous version may be necessary. This is often simpler than diagnosing the underlying problems. This guide applies specifically to the Click-to-Run (C2R) versions of Office 2021, 2019, 2016, and Microsoft 365 Apps. For MSI versions of Office, you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}HKLMsoftwarepoliciesmicrosoftoffice16.0commonofficeupdate<\/code>. This will indicate your current update channel.<\/p>\n\n
cd %ProgramFiles%Common FilesMicrosoft SharedClickToRun<\/code><\/p>\nofficec2rclient.exe \/update user updatetoversion=<build number><\/code><\/p>\nofficec2rclient.exe \/update user updatetoversion=16.0.18129.20158<\/code><\/p>\n<Configuration>\u00a0\u00a0<Updates Enabled="TRUE" TargetVersion="16.0.18129.20158" \/><\/Configuration><\/code><\/pre>\nsetup.exe \/configure configuration.xml<\/code><\/p>\nOfficeC2RClient.exe \/update USER<\/code><\/p>\n