A lot of problems with Office 2013 are caused by third party (non-Microsoft) applications.This is my (expanding) list of things to try when Office 2013365 won’t start or crashes:
See the Article “Why can’t I start my Office 2013 application at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/why-cant-i-start-my-office-2013-application-HA104011864.aspx
Refer to the following website for information on repairing Office 2013365:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/repair-or-remove-office-2010-HA010357402.aspx
See Office 2013 install woes - http://office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=1834

See the KnowledgeBase article “Office 2013 applications crash on launch at the splash screen” at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813143
Or see the KnowledgeBase article Error: “Something went wrong and we can't sign you in right now” when trying to install Office 2013 at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2811180/en-us/
Also see my response in
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/microsoft-word-2013-has-stopped-working/67b81016-849f-481a-bce5-bf04797ac03b
Do you have Abbyy Finereader installed on the PC? A number of people have reported that removing it overcomes problems with 2013.See:
Office programs may crash with the FineReader add-in installed at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2755838
Do you have “Fun Tools” add-in? A number of people have reported that removing it overcomes problems with 2013
Do you have Toshiba Book Reader installed on the PC?It has been reported that uninstalling that brings Office back to working status.
Do you have the Acrobat PDFMaker add-in.It has been reported that uninstalling that overcomes an issue with a message appearing that states 'The document contains macros. Macro support for this application is disabled. Features requiring VBA are not available. Would you like to open this document as a read only?'
Also see: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/microsoft-word-has-stopped-working-when-i-close/8375b5b6-4f7e-46ed-a02b-90152ecad287#LastReplyand
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_home-word/word-and-excel-2013-crashing-on-windows-7/5389390c-e989-4c8e-8fe0-62673f1410ce?page=4#LastReply
It appears that there may be some hardware incompatibilities as well. If you have the NVIDIA driver NVWGF2UM.DLL, try renaming it as: NVWGF2UM.oldas was mentioned in:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/microsoft-word-has-stopped-working-when-i-close/8375b5b6-4f7e-46ed-a02b-90152ecad287#LastReply
From the File tab, select Options and then click on Advanced and then in the Display section of the dialog, check the box for Disable hardware graphics acceleration

Question: Q: Microsoft Word 2011 Crash on Startup More Less Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. MS Word (Android) crashes almost immediately upon starting. Microsoft Corporation Word. The startup screen appears for a split second, then closes.

For the error message 'There was a problem sending the command to the program', use Windows Explorer to access the C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15 folder and right click on WINWORD.EXE then on Properties, go to the Compatibility tab and uncheck all the boxes.It has also been reported that the problem can be overcome by editing the registry at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWord.Document.12shellOpen and deleting the ddeexec key.
The ddeexec can also be deleted from
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWord.DocumentMacroEnabled.12shellOpen.
That fix is described at ...
http://www.dilloway.co.uk/there-was-a-problem-sending-the-command.html

It has been reported that uninstalling FastPictureView and FastPictureViewer Pro… overcomes the issue of the Minimize, Maximize, Close and Help buttons not being visible in Office 2013.
If you have a Canon 8350 printer, try using the Canon MF8000 UFRI LT XPS driver as detail in the post by Riad Amstha on April 14 in the thread at:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_365hp-word/office-2013-crashes-with-canon-8350-printer/e2bf6530-92e0-47ef-b6ec-e803a91793d0?page=3#LastReply

For the problem of nothing appearing when you start typing in a blank document in Word in Office 365 Home Premium, and you hear a bell sound with each keypress, but no characters appear, disable the SMARTInk add-in for an interactive whiteboard.

Last Updated: December 13, 2018

ISSUE

After updating Outlook 2010 to the November 2018 Public Update KB 4461529, Outlook crashes or closes suddenly on start up. The issue only affects 64-bit installations of Outlook 2010.

More Information

In the Application Event Viewer the following event details are observed:

Faulting application name: OUTLOOK.EXE, version: 14.0.7224.5000, time stamp: 0x5bcb80d1
Faulting module name: olmapi32.dll, version: 14.0.7224.5000, time stamp: 0x5bcb809a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000001e4b9
Faulting process id: 0x3998
Faulting application start time: 0x01d47d3befb78cd8
Faulting application path: C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14OUTLOOK.EXE
Faulting module path: C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14olmapi32.dll

STATUS: FIXED

This problem was fixed with the November 21, 2018, update for Outlook 2010 (KB4461585).