Office Opens in Safe Mode Every Time: How to Exit
You double-click a document and the title bar reads Document1 - Word (Safe Mode). The ribbon has lost your custom groups, and every launch ends the same way no matter how many times you close it. Safe mode is not damage. It is Office refusing to load something that crashed it, and it will keep refusing until that something is found. Here is what it switches off, and where the culprit hides. ...