With this, I skip the online installation stuff, and download complete installation first, and then install from that. However this is an online installation, where the install file is some small thingy, with the user’s data embedded.Īnyways, to remedy this, I first remove Office completely using the Office Removal Tool Fix It (link below), and then instead install with the Office Deployment Tool, which sounds more advanced than it is (at least for how I use it). I found one that mentioned 76% specifically and the closest I came to an actual error description was that some file in the online installation is broken/corrupted. I can’t answer that… There are many sites discussing issues where the setup of Office 3 gets stuck at some percentage, often mentioned as a culprit is something with Print Spooler if it hangs above 80% or disabling antivirus and whatnot, none which worked for me.
If I restart the machine (although the box tells me not to, “breakin’ the law!”) Office works fine and one thinks about what the last 28% are for. It never gets further and just sits there indefinitely.
While installing Office 365 (ProPlus) for some user, I often run into the issue that the setup hangs/freezes at 76%, while installing in the background.
