Thanks both for your thoughts. Are you two up all night?!

Before I posted I actually tried to run Microsoft Autoupdate but it seems, of course and ironically, to be afflicted by the same issue and hangs.

I might just bite the bullet in a couple of days and pluck up enough courage to reinstall Office with the Microsoft_Office_16.19.18110915_Installer.pkg I just downloaded. Do you have any idea if the original Office installation serial number might be stored somewhere and where it might be in the welter of its support files?

Last edited by andycap; 12/12/18 03:04 AM.