Just passing along a recent warning from fellow MVP Scott Diamond in which he informed us that update(s ) pushed yesterday (October 11th, 2016) appear to have broken Microsoft Office 2010.

When I opened Excel, I couldn’t see the ribbon tabs. When I opened Access I got the same thing. Also when I tried to link to an external table. The Browse button wouldn’t work and the radio buttons for Import and Link weren’t visible or selectable.

 

I uninstalled the update and everything is back to normal. — Scott Diamond

So if you are experiencing any issue today, or shortly thereafter you may wish to uninstall any recent updates.

From what I could find on October 11, 2016, update for Microsoft Office there were 3 updates released for Office 2010:

Office 2010	MS16-121: Description of the security update for Office 2010: October 11, 2016(KB3118311)
Word 2010	MS16-121: Description of the security update for Word 2010: October 11, 2016(KB3118312)
Office 2010	MS16-120: Description of the security update for Office 2010: October 11, 2016(KB3118317)

Based on the general nature of the issue described by Scott, I would doubt the Word update caused issue with Excel and Access (although it has happened in the past that one application impacts another), so I would focus on determining if my system installed either KB3118311 or KB3118317 and see if the problem(s) go away after uninstalling them.