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  1. How to Completely Uninstall Office 2011 for Mac OS X Matt Klein April 3, 2015, 12:34pm EDT Microsoft has been readying its latest update to Office for Mac, and recently released its first preview.
  2. To uninstall Office for Mac 2011 move the applications to the Trash. Once you've removed everything, empty the Trash and restart your Mac to complete the process. Before you remove Office for Mac 2011, quit all Office applications and make sure there's nothing in Trash that you want to keep.

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Install Office for Mac now Office 365 customers get the new Office for Mac first. You’ll have Office applications on your Mac or PC, apps on tablets and smartphones for when you're on the go, and Office Online on the web for everywhere in between.

Much to our surprise, uninstalling Office 2011 for Mac is a terribly complicated affair. Microsoft has been readying its latest update to Office for Mac, and recently released its first preview. We decided to give it a whirl and wanted uninstall Office 2011 to avoid any conflicts. To remove earlier versions of Microsoft Office from your Mac OS X computer, use the Remove Office tool provided by Microsoft. Note: The Remove Office tool will not delete documents you have created with Office programs unless they are located in the application folders for Microsoft Office. Uninstall Office for Mac 2016 Volume License Running latest version of Office for Mac 2016 as of this writing, on MacOS Sierra. I've installed a Volume Licensed version of Office, but am lacking features of o365 and would like to remove the VL to log into o365.

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Remove Office

Where can I find the application, 'Remove Office' ?

'Remove Office' is located in the Additional Tools folder in the following locations:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Additional Tools/Remove Office/Remove Office
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Additional Tools/Remove Office/Remove Office
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Additional Tools/Remove Office/Remove Office

What is the difference between remove and delete ?

If you drag the Microsoft Office folder to the trash and delete it, it will remove the applications, but it will not remove preferences and other hidden files. Your data in the Microsoft User Data folder is also not removed.

'Remove Office' in Office 2008

  1. does remove receipts in Library/Receipts (old receipts could make the AutoUpdater think you are already updated)
    1. receipts start with 'office2008'
    2. Snow Leopard users: You need remove the com.microsoft..plist files in this invisible folder. In the Finder toolbar under Go, paste in this path: /private/var/db/receipts
  2. does not remove Automator Actions in Library/Automator
  3. does not remove Microsoft Preferences in ~/ Library/Preferences
    1. If you do remove your User's Microsoft preferences, be sure to save your dictionary file in the Microsoft folder in preferences.
  4. does not remove fonts in Library/Fonts/Microsoft
  5. does not remove /Library/Application Support/Microsoft Folder (contains MERP,MAU)

'Remove Office', an Office application is used to completely remove all Office files in Office 2004 and older versions of Office.

'Remove Office' removes both preference files and custom templates, so you should make a backup copy of the preferences and templates in another location on the machine before running the removal tool. See Files to Backup.

Tip: put your templates in your Microsoft User Data folder, where they won't be touched, and set the Project Gallery to find them there.

Using 'Remove Office' does not delete your Microsoft User Data folder that contains your email messages. Skype for mac helper tool prompt meaning.

'Remove Office' is different from dragging the MS Office folder to the trash. It deletes invisible files and preferences used by MS Office. If all you need to do is reset your license see Resetting your Mac Office PID

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'Remove Office' is located in the following locations:

Entourage 2004:

Entourage 2008: Additional Tools folder In the Microsoft Office 2008 folder.

Entourage 2004: Additional Tools folder In the Microsoft Office 2004 folder.

Entourage X: Value Pack folder on the Office X CD.

Office 2001: Do not use the Remover available on the CD; it isn't current. Download the Office 2001 Remover from Mactopia.'

WARNING: The Remove Office tool can remove files that are installed by Microsoft Office 98, Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac, and Office v. X, including Microsoft shared libraries, such as Microsoft OLE, which might be required by other programs. If a program does not start after you use the Remove Office tool, try reinstalling the program to fix the problem.

More Info: See Microsoft KB 871017

To manually remove Office

How to Manually Remove Office v. X for Mac from Your Computer (These instructions can also apply to Office 2004.)

If you’ve simply had enough of Office 2016 crashing on your Mac or just want to completely remove it, here’s how to fully uninstall Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. Office 2016 is a huge package taking up more than 6GB of disk space (compared to 2.5GB in Office 2011 for Mac) with hundreds of files, libraries and components. It’s important therefore when uninstalling it that you make sure you uninstall all components, not just the main applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Unfortunately, Microsoft don’t make this as easy as it should be so here we show you the easiest and quickest way of uninstalling Office 2016 on Mac to make sure that nothing is left behind. Note that if you use Time Machine, there’s no need to uninstall Office 2016 if you just want want to uninstall an Office for Mac update.

Uninstall Office 2016 For Mac The Easy Way

The easiest way to completely uninstall Office 2016 for Mac and ensure that no files or folders are left behind is with an uninstaller app. Using an uninstaller is more effective than just dragging and dropping programs to the Trash because they detect all associated files and folders that could be left behind.

  1. Download and install AppCleaner. AppCleaner is a free tool which properly uninstalls applications in your Mac. It searches for all files and folders associated with Microsoft Office and then deletes them all during installation. Simply select or search for Microsoft Office 2016 applications, make sure all the folders and files you want to remove are selected and click Remove. Here’s an example uninstalling Microsoft Remote Desktop:

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You will be simply asked for your admin password to complete the uninstall which will be done instantly when you click Remove. Note that there are also other uninstallers such as AppZapper that do the same job as AppCleaner but AppZapper costs $12.99 whereas AppCleaner is free.

Remove Office 2016 For Mac The Hard Way

Using AppCleaner is the quickest and easiest way to ensure that Office 2016 for Mac is removed from your Mac. However, you can also remove Office for Mac 2016 manually if you want to but we don’t recommend it because it’s considerably more complicated and only does exactly the same thing as AppCleaner.

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Here’s how to remove Office 2016 for Mac manually.

Go to your Applications folder in Finder. Hold down the CMD key next to the space bar and select all Office 2016 for Mac programs that are installed i.e. Microsoft Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. Then Ctrl-click or right-click and select Move to Trash:

However, this is only part of it. You must then manually remove all of the separate components and folders that are not removed using this method. Microsoft has posted full instructions on how to do this here but it’s a messy, time-consuming process that yields no better results than using AppCleaner.

Delete Office 2016 Mac

If you have any questions, problems or issues on removing Office 2016 from your Mac, let us know in the comments below. You may also find our guide to fixing Office 2016 crashes on Mac useful too. If you just want to roll back and Office for Mac update, check out our guide about how to uninstall Office for Mac updates.