How Do You Uninstall Microsoft Office 2011 On A Mac
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  1. Office Removal Tool For Mac

Note: Currently, the Remove Office tool is notavailable for Office 2011. To perform a manual uninstall, refer to theMicrosoft Knowledge Base document How to completelyremove Office for Mac 2011.

To remove earlier versions of Microsoft Office from your MacOS X computer, use the Remove Office tool provided byMicrosoft.

In fact, most online help content will be retired.Why is Microsoft doing this?Office for Mac 2011, like most Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide new features, bug fixes, security fixes, and so on. This lifecycle typically lasts for 5 years from the date of the product’s initial release. Mac office 2011 com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist.

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  1. Remove the “Microsoft Office 2011” folder. Remove the “Microsoft Communicator” and “Microsoft Messenger” applications. Go to your home folder, then go to the Documents folder. Remove the “Microsoft User Data” and “RDC Connections” folders.
  2. You can uninstall the Mac App Store version through the Launchpad. Head to Launchpad, and type the Office app name in the search box Click and hold the app that appears, until it begins to wiggle and shows “X” Tap the “X” in the left top corner, and then click Delete in the pop-up dialog.

The first thing you need to do before you can remove Office 2011 is to make sure none of its applications are running. The easiest way to do this is to simply use “Command + Tab” to switch between running apps. If any are running, simply use “Command + Q” to quit them. Remove the Office. Microsoft Office 365 includes a set of Mac productivity apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. So make sure you want to get rid of all these Office 365 in-built products before starting. Also make sure you use your Mac as administrator account to ensure the safety removal of Microsoft Office 365 (How To Uninstall 1Password.

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Note: The Remove Office tool will not deletedocuments you have created with Office programs unless they arelocated in the application folders for Microsoft Office. If you havedocuments you want to keep in any of the application folders, movethem to a different folder before using the tool.

Office Removal Tool For Mac

  1. To find the Remove Office tool, open the Microsoft Office2008 folder or the Microsoft Office 2004 folder,and then open the Additional Tools folder.
  2. For instructions, read the Read Me file in theRemove Office folder.
  3. When you run Remove Office, it will allow you to removeinstallations of Microsoft Office 98 through 2008, as well as relatedpreferences and system files. Once you have run the program, itplaces the removed Office components in the Trash.