Microsoft Office 2008 Uninstall Mac Os X

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. Much to our surprise, uninstalling Office 2011 for Mac is a terribly complicated affair. Aug 12, 2011  Steps to uninstall Office 2008 Original Title: 'Unistall. I have installed Office 2011 for Mac on my iMac, operating with OS Lion. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Open Microsoft Office 2008 folder. 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, use the Remove Office tool provided by Microsoft.

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You might no longer need an application, or maybe you need to remove it to upgrade to a new version or to reinstall it. Mac OS X Snow Leopard doesn’t have an Add or Remove Programs utility for uninstalling software, nor does it need one, because virtually all Macintosh applications are self-contained in a single folder or series of nested folders. Therefore, removing an application is usually as easy as deleting the contents of the installation folder from your hard drive (for example, removing the Quicken folder to uninstall Quicken).

Always check the application’s README file and documentation for any special instructions before you delete any application’s folder! If you’ve created any documents in that folder that you want to keep, don’t forget to move them before you trash the folder and its contents. In fact, some applications may come complete with their own uninstall utility, so checking the README and documentation may save you unnecessary steps.

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Some applications can leave preference files, start-up applications, or driver files in other spots on your disk besides their home folder. When you’re uninstalling a program that has support files in other areas, use the Search box in the Finder toolbar to locate other files that might have been created by the application. Again, don’t forget to check whether an application has an uninstall utility (or an uninstall option available through the original setup application).

Spotlight searches can help find files. In this example, a search is run on Microsoft Office 2008. By searching for the word office, a number of files created in other folders, such as the Settings file were found in the Preferences folder. Typically, you want to delete the main application folder and then remove these orphans.

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Use Spotlight to locate support files after uninstalling an application.

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Spring Cleaning, from Smith Micro, also has the ability to uninstall a program, as well as a feature that can find and remove orphaned files left from past applications.

Remote desktop client mac. Microsoft Remote Desktop (Formally Known as Remote Desktop Connection) in Mac OS XMicrosoft Remote Desktop, a free application from Microsoft, allows you to use a Mac laptop or desktop to connect to and work from a Windows desktop computer that you have RDP access to in your on-campus office or lab.