Once there, right-click to the OfficeClickToRun.exe file and select Create shortcut: if a pop up shows to tell you that you don’t have enough permissions to create shortcut there, just click OK to create the shortcut to the desktop.
#MICROSOFT WORD APPLICATION ERROR 0XC0000142 WINDOWS#
Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun or C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun, depending on the Windows and MS Office version installed.Here’s a list of what you need to do to get rid of the error: That said, let’s see how we can fix this issue for good. However, it is notoriously still around in 1803, 1909 and more recent versions of Windows 10, even with Office 365 apps. This issue is around since the initial release of Office 2016 and was meant to be “fixed” by Microsoft with the release of the Monthly Channel Version 1803 patch, as explained in this post. The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142).
I’m referring to the 0xc0000142 error that pop up whenever you try to open a file with MS Excel, MS Word and/or other MS Office apps.