When I start up my mac, my word, excel and powerpoint applications open as well

this solved my problem - many thanks Rubjar

Thank you! It's amazing what Microsoft really are for making their applications so ridiculously stupid.

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Thank you for this solution! I have been struggling with this for a while! If anyone else is having this issue follow Rubjar's solution.

perfect...i was having the same issue ...got solved today.....great

Only this had worked for me! Thanks!

Thank you! This worked for me, when all the other solutions failed.

Tks, it worked perfectly!

This was extremely helpful! Thanks! These instructions worked for me.

JK

Thanks marklanham. This resolved it for me.

This was super helpful! I was able to fix this annoying problem with Rubjar's Step 1. THANK YOU! That was such an annoying problem to have!

I tried other methods and it did not work. I unclick as suggested, restart and tick it back again. Problem removed.

Thanks.

I had the same issue. What I did I have pinned my Word, Excel on dock; I right click Word icon and then Options -> Open at Login (Uncheck this option). Hopefully this will resolve your issue.

When you log out or shut down the mac uncheck the box that appears and gives you the countdown.

Really helpful. Thanks for sharing this information!

Thanks so much! That was maddening.