To do a complete uninstall of Office for Mac 2011, you can download and run this handy automated tool. This is for troubleshooting purposes only. To do a regular uninstall, see Uninstall Office for Mac. Before you install the Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 update, make sure that you have Office for Mac 2011 14.1.0 or a later version installed on your computer. Also, make sure that the computer is running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or a later version of the Mac OS X operating system. How to Uninstall Office on a Mac manually. The first thing you should always do when uninstalling any app is to quit the program. So close Microsoft Office and make sure that there are no processes related to the app working in the background. TIP: Depending how you got Office, this might be your personal Microsoft account or your work or school account. Select Install Office.Screenshot showing Install Office button. PC install: Depending on your browser, click Save, Run, Setup, or Save File. Ms Office Setup. Mac install: Open Finder >Downloads.

1. Uninstall Office 2011 For Mac Completely

Uninstall Office 2011 For Mac Completely

By An add-in enhances or works with Office 2011 for Mac software in some way. Add-ins are sometimes called plug-ins or add-ons. Here are three examples of excellent commercial-quality add-ins that work with Mac Office: • EndNote (www.endnote.com): A high-end bibliography product for Microsoft Word. • MathType (www.dessci.com/en/products/MathType_Mac): The full version of Equation Editor that’s included in Office. It lets you put mathematical symbols in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. • TurningPoint (www.turningtechnologies.com): Use clickers to capture audience responses in real time and present the results on PowerPoint slides.

• You can only upload files of type 3GP, 3GPP, MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, or RM. • You can only upload photos smaller than 5 MB. • You can only upload videos smaller than 600MB. • You can only upload a photo (png, jpg, jpeg) or a video (3gp, 3gpp, mp4, mov, avi, mpg, mpeg, rm). • You can only upload a photo or a video. • Video should be smaller than 600mb/5 minutes • Photo should be smaller than 5mb • You can only upload a photo.

Then, just about a year ago,, and haven't looked back. Although I cancelled my Office 365 Midsize Business plan, I still have my Office 2013 license for my PCs and my Office 2011 license for my Macs. Yep, there it is. That's the start of this story. I get downloadable Office from the school where I teach, but they only have Office 2011 for Mac. As you probably know,, and it's much more in line with the PC version of Office 2013 we're all used to. Office 2011 for Mac is so bad that I have a Parallels install of Windows on most of my Macs, just to run Office 2013 in a Windows virtual machine.

Yepper, the instructions Microsoft provided for uninstalling Office were wrong. Can you imagine run-of-the-mill Mac users digging in their Library folder? Can you imagine how bad it could be if someone deleted the wrong.plist file? Think randomly deleting INI files in your System32 folder and you get the idea. At this point, I'm thinking Paris H started to lose patience with me.

If you remove this folder and you will lose all your Outlook data, among other things. This user data folder can be found in your Documents. It is recommend that if you want to keep this data folder, you drag it to a safe location such as the Desktop or archive it to a cloud folder. Regardless, upon finishing this last step, restart your computer once more and you’re done removing Office 2011 from your Mac. RELATED: We hope that Microsoft includes some kind of ability in Office 2016 for Mac that will allow you to uninstall or upgrade from the previous installation.

Eventually, the software downloaded and I subsequently ran the installer (which was functionally identical to the first installer run). Once the installation was complete, Word once again opened, and I tried logging in. I was able to login and was, in fact, able to activate Word. Or so I thought. Satisfied with what I thought was a completed installation and activation process, I opened up the Word document I wanted to edit all along. At which point I got this message: Special, right? I took a moment to remind myself that it's just software and then took a couple of calming deep breaths.

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Last Updated: November 21, 2017 If you’ve simply had enough of or just want to completely remove it, here’s how to fully uninstall. 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.

While in general updates should improve Outlook, updates such as and before that (coincidentally both for Outlook 2007) both got pulled and it was recommended to uninstall them if you were seriously affected by it. There are several ways to do this depending on the type of update, your version of Outlook and your version of Windows.

The Document Inspector window appears as follows. Note that the options will vary slightly, depending on whether you are using Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. • If you are using Microsoft Word, select at a minimum, the following options: - Comments, Revisions, Versions, and Annotations - Document Properties and Personal Information - Invisible Content (You will need to scroll down to see this.) - Hidden Text (You will need to scroll down to see this.) • Click Inspect. • The system will search for items that pertain to the categories you selected. If it finds any items, you will be prompted to remove them.

It wouldn't let me go any further. The Sign In button had been replaced by a Cancel button. I still had my receipt page open in my browser, with a nice 'Contact Us for help' button available, so I opened up a chat conversation with a Microsoft support rep: DG: I am trying to sign in to activate, and it recognizes my email and password, but asks if I want to use Microsoft Account or Work Account.

• Before continuing, if you created custom templates that you want to keep, copy them to another folder. Back in Library, open Application Support > Microsoft, and drag the Office folder to Trash. Step 3: Remove com.microsoft.office.licensing files from Computer > Library folders • Click Go > Computer > double-click your hard disk icon. The default name of your hard disk is Macintosh HD. • Open Library, and then open LaunchDaemons.

Double-click on the.pkg file to start the installer, which will be much different from the Windows installer. Nevertheless, simply click through the prompts to upgrade your installation. Adobe reader touch for mac. Note, however, if you’re intending to upgrade from Office 2011, which is pretty terrible and thus you should, it’s best advised to uninstall that first before proceeding with the new Mac version. Sadly, that Office for Mac version doesn’t have an uninstaller such as you would find on Windows so you will need to uninstall it manually. Luckily, you can, complete with screenshots, to help you with that process.

• Click Markup Options. • At a minimum, make sure a check mark appears next to each of the following items: - Comments - Insertions and Deletions - Formatting Also highlight Reviewers and make sure all All is selected. - All Reviewers • Perform one of the following: Action Description Accept all changes in the document Click the down arrow next to Accept and select Accept All Changes or Accept All Changes and Stop Tracking. Review each change Click the Next or Previous icons. Then click the down arrow next to Accept and select Accept and Move to Next or Accept This Change or click the down arrow next to Reject and select Reject and Move to Next or Reject Change. Reject all changes in the document Click the down arrow next to Reject and select Reject All Changes or Reject All Changes and Stop Tracking. • In the Comments section of the toolbar, perform one of the following: Action Description Delete all comments Click the Next or Previous icons.

Paris H: What I would recommend you do is uninstall and reinstall the software. Yep, uninstall the software I just installed and then reinstall it so that it might activate.

To do a complete uninstall of Office for Mac 2011, you can download and run this handy automated tool. This is for troubleshooting purposes only.

So far Microsoft has been rolling previous updaters into a combo updater that makes updating so much easier and quicker. You can check for the latest updates or look in the left sidebar column under latest update.

(Available only in Excel and PowerPoint.) • Add: Click to open the Choose a File browser, where you can browse to an add-in template in Finder and add your add-in to the list. • Remove: Click to remove the selected add-in from the list.

You can quit the Database utility and start using Outlook and other Office application again. I hope this information will be helpful for you. Thanks and regards Shweta@G. Hi As per the information and details provided by you, to delete an Outlook profile in Outlook 2011 on a Mac, please follow these steps: - • Quit all open Office programs (Outlook, word, Excel, etc) • Open up the MS Database Utility located under Applications Microsoft Office2011 Office. • Highlight the Main Identity and click Rebuild.

See solution in other versions of Word: • • Question: In Word 2011 for Mac, how do I change the page margins in a document? Answer:Select the Layout tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen. Then in the Margins group, click on the Margin button. This will open a popup menu where you can select one of the preset margins or 'Custom Margins'. A quick way to change the margins is to select the Layout tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen.

Note: some users have found that they need to use 'Remove Office' before re-install clears the problem. See for help using 'Remove Office' I try to keep this page updated to show the latest updaters.

First, empty the trash: Now, if you have Microsoft Office 2010 apps on your Dock, simply drag and drop them onto the Finder’s background window to remove them. Quite the task, eh?

To restore your application to its original state, delete it from your hard disk, reinstall it from your original installation disk, and then install the updates that you want. • If you have trouble installing this update or using Office 2011 applications after you install this update, try the following: • Make sure that the Microsoft Office 2011 folder is located in the Applications folder on the startup volume. If it is at another location on your computer, move it to the Applications folder on your startup volume, and then try installing the update again. • Restart your computer and try installing the update again.

The versions numbers in there are the 'raw' office versions: • 14: Office for Mac 2011 • 12: Office 2008 for Mac • 11: Office 2004 for Mac • 10: Office v. X However it's not as simple as removing all files referenced by older packages, as some of them will be shared between them and doing so may leave your current Office install in a damaged state. Therefore the cleanest way to really remove all Office junk would be to: • Uninstall what you can, using the uninstaller supplied (Microsoft Office Setup Assistant) • Remove the package receipts and the files they reference (but carefully, as many of them will reference system directories that should not be deleted unless empty). Does this, but it hasn't been updated in a long time and I'm not sure if it still works on Lion. • Remove any leftovers, using either a cleaning tool such as or the already mentioned, which work by looking for identifiers such as the com.apple.microsoft.office described earlier, or simply using mdfind or locate on the command line. • Reinstall Office for Mac 2011 - and before doing the next upgrade, use the uninstaller.

• Click Download, or click the link for the language version that you want. • Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk. If you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop unless you specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General. • Double-click the file that you downloaded in step 5 to place the Office 2011 SP2 Update (14.2.0) volume on your desktop, and then double-click the Office 2011 SP2 Update (14.2.0) volume to open it. This step might have been performed for you.

Paris H: I am checking on this now. (Some time went by) Paris H: Please for Uninstall Office 2016 for Mac This time the link was more appropriate to the problem. The instructions weren't correct, but the link was right. If you follow the link, you'll see it advises three stages of activity: removing the applications from the Applications folder, deleting a.plist file from the system Library folder and deleting an indeterminate number of.plist files from the user's Library folder. In the second stage, the instructions state 'In the LaunchDaemons folder, Control+click or right-click com.microsoft.officeprefs.plist and click Move to Trash.'

Hi As per the information and details provided by you, to delete an Outlook profile in Outlook 2011 on a Mac, please follow these steps: - • Quit all open Office programs (Outlook, word, Excel, etc) • Open up the MS Database Utility located under Applications Microsoft Office2011 Office. • Highlight the Main Identity and click Rebuild. • When prompted to quit all Office applications, click Quit All. • You may then prompt with an additional screen warning you there is a problem with the Office Database. If you see this click Rebuild again.

Method 1: Standard uninstall method The recommended method is to remove the update Control Panel. Most updates can be removed this way. • Windows 7 Start-> Control Panel-> Uninstall a Program-> View installed updates • Windows 8 Right click on the Start Menu button-> Control Panel-> Uninstall a Program-> View installed updates• Windows 10 Start-> type; Control Panel-> Uninstall a Program-> View installed updates The overview is sorted by “Installed on” by default which should help locating the update. You can also type “KB” and the number in the search field in the top right corner to easily locate the update. For instance; KB2509470 Once found, select the update and press the “Uninstall” button. Method 2: System Restore Some updates cannot be removed via the “Installed updates” list.

To do a regular uninstall, see. Note: If you have Office 2016 for Mac installed on your computer, DO NOT remove the file com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist.

After installing an update for Outlook, I’m encountering some strange issues with Outlook which I think are directly related to the update and not to any other Outlook issue. How can I uninstall the update again to verify if the issue will indeed be gone then?

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. You will be simply asked for your admin password to complete the uninstall which will be done instantly when you click Remove.

Click to expand.Removing License Files for Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac: • In the Finder, click Go, and then click Computer. • Open your hard drive. For example, Macintosh HD. • Open the Library folder. • Open Preferences folder. • Select the file com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist and move it to Trash. These instructions were taken from Microsoft's website so I don’t know if there is any easier way to accomplish the same task.

Yesterday afternoon, I caved. I do a tremendous amount of work in Word and PowerPoint, and I just wanted them to run natively on my Macs.

It is a big job, however. The first step is the most obvious and probably the single biggest step towards reclaiming the disk space that the app suite has consumed: removing the Microsoft Office 2011 folder from your Applications folder: Okay. You can theoretically stop here if you want and don’t care about configuration and preference files, license data files, etc. Don’t want that, want to go through to the bitter end, removing every possible trace of the applications? For the rest of the process, you’re going to be delving into directories that are usually hidden from you, so you won’t be able to browse to them using the Finder and your usual approach to navigating Mac OS X. Instead, you’ll become friends with “Go to Folder” off the “Go” menu in the Finder: Note the keyboard shortcut too, it’ll come in handy: Shift-Cmd-G. And here we go!

In Word, when you select an add-in’s check box or click the Add button, you load the template, thereby making the VBA routines that it has available globally within all open documents in Word. A loaded template is called a global template. Revisit the Templates and Add-Ins dialog to re-load your template(s). To disable an add-in, deselect its check box or click the Remove button. Excel and PowerPoint add-ins are also loaded and unloaded using check boxes.

• Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with the installation. • Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements.

To manually remove an application and all associated files: • Launch Finder and search for the app name (hopefully unique, such as Skype) • You can narrow the search to specific folders or search your whole Mac • Searching 'File Name' vs 'Contents' usually provides better results. • Click the + button below the search term to add criteria • Click the 'Album' drop-down and select 'System files' • Click the 'Don't include' and change to 'include' • Sort by name, kind, date, etc. To identify components of the app, such as folders,.plist files, cache files. • Delete all files and folders related to the app.