Uninstall Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 An ever popular productivity tool for Windows users, is seeing some success on Apple computers, which already has its own preferred productivity suite in iWork. However some users are opting to remove MS Office 2011 completely and use alternatives such as iWork or any of the open source office suites, an act which brings with it the problem of how to remove Microsoft Office from your Mac. Thanks to the various additional files and folders used in Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 in order to create an office experience that is as close to the Windows version as possible, removing the software from your Apple Mac can be quite a lengthy and drawn out process Completely Remove MS Office 2011 from Your Mac. To remove MS Office 2011 completely from your Apple Mac hard drive, you will need to follow these steps. The first is to cancel all running programs via the application’s Quit option typically found in the File menu.

Note: Currently, the Remove Office tool is not available for Office 2011. To perform a manual uninstall, refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base document How to completely remove Office for Mac 2011. To remove earlier versions of Microsoft Office from your Mac OS X computer.

If the application cannot be exited normally, use the COMMAND+OPTION+ESC keys to display the Force Quit Application box, and use the Force Quit button to exit each of these. With this step completed you can then remove your Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 folders. Use Finder > Go > Applications, select the Microsoft Office 2011 folder and drag it to the Trash folder. Now at this stage you might think that the job is complete.

After all, Microsoft Office: Mac 2011is removed. However it isn’t complete removed – there are still files and folders that need to be discarded ( Screenshot by author) Removing Preferences, Licenses and Receipts There are various further steps that need to be taken if you don’t plan on reinstalling Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 in future. The following steps will require you to use the Finder to access various folders on your hard disk drive. For instance to remove the Office Preferences, open Go > Home > Library > Preferences and find all files beginning com.microsoft. Kodi for mac 10.7 lion. Dvdfab for mac. Drag these to Trash along with the Microsoft folder. You should also remove the helper files ( com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist and com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper), found in: Finder > Go > Computer > [Your hard drive] > Library > LaunchDaemons and Finder > Go > Computer > [Your hard drive] > Library > PrivilegedHelperTools Meanwhile licenses can be removed by opening Finder > Go > Computer > [Your hard drive] > Library > Preferences > com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist. You will also need to discard the Application Support data.