I had a situation happen where I had to use my recovery disk to get my computer working properly again. I think it had a virus. After using it, I wasn't able to use anything from MS Office. When I tried to open Word, Publisher, or Power Point, I got the message it wasn't a working shortcut. I tried to reinstall Office, but couldn't. I googled how to uninstall MS Office and followed the instructions and that didn't work either. I installed two different programs to try to uninstall it, they couldn't find it. I went to My Computer, C drive, programs, MSOffice and all the files are there.