- Uninstall Microsoft Office 2011 Mac
- Fully Uninstall Microsoft Office 2011 Mac Catalina
- Microsoft Office Uninstall Tool
If you want to uninstall Office for Mac 2011, you can move the applications to the Trash. Once you've removed everything, empty the Trash and restart your Mac to complete the process. Note: Please back up the email data before you uninstall the Outlook for Mac client. 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.
'I have the 2011 edition Microsoft Office and I was trying to install the new 2016 apps, but they would not update. I was suggested uninstalling the older version first and try again. But I don't know how to do that. How do I uninstall Microsoft Office from my Mac including all its apps?'
You may want to uninstall Microsoft Office for Mac or just uninstall word on Mac for fixing some bugs in the existed apps or installing the updated version. No matter what kind of situation you are facing, here's the answer you are searching for about how to properly uninstall Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office applications on Mac: uninstall Office 2011/2016, Office 365 on Mac.
1. Microsoft Office Removal Tool for Mac?
Microsoft Office Removal Tool is an official uninstallation app offered by Microsoft, which allows users to completely remove any version of Microsoft Office and all of its apps, including Office 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 as well as Office 365.
Unfortunately, this removal tool only works for Windows system, such as Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10. To uninstall Microsoft Office on Mac, you can either remove them manually or use a third-party uninstaller utility. If you want to completely uninstall MS Office from Mac, jump to Part 3 to learn about FonePaw MacMaster Uninstaller for Mac.
2. Uninstall Office 365 (2011/2016) on Mac Manually
Note that to uninstall Office 365 on your Mac manually requires to be signed in as an administrator on the Mac.
Uninstall Office 365 (2011) on Mac:
Step 1: Quit all the Office applications first, no matter it is Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote.
Step 2: Open Finder > Applications.
Step 3: Locate Microsoft Office 2011 folder. And then remove Office from Mac to Trash.
Step 4: Check whether there is anything you still want to keep in Trash. If not, empty Trash and restart the Mac.
Uninstall Office 365 (2016) on Mac:
Completely uninstalling Office 365, the 2016 edition, on Mac includes three parts.
Part 1. Remove MS Office 365 Applications on Mac:
Step 1: Open Finder > Applications.
Step 2: Press 'Command' button and click to select all the Office 365 applications. '
Step 3: Ctrl + Click the selected applications and then choose 'Move to Trash'.
Part 2. Delete Office 365 Files from Mac:
Step 1: Open Finder. Press 'Command + Shift + h'.
Step 2: In Finder, click 'View > as List'.
Step 3: Then click on 'View > Show View Options'.
Step 4: In the dialog box, tick 'Show Library Folder' and click 'Save'.
Step 5: Back to Finder, head to Library > Containers. Ctrl + click or right-click on each of these folders below if present, and select 'Move to Trash'.
com.microsoft.errorreporting
com.microsoft.Excel
com.microsoft.netlib.shipassertprocess
com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2
com.microsoft.Outlook
com.microsoft.Powerpoint
com.microsoft.RMS-XPCService
com.microsoft.Word
com.microsoft.onenote.mac
Uninstall Microsoft Office 2011 Mac
Step 6: Click the back arrow to go back to Library folder. Open 'Group Containters'. Ctrl + click or right-click on each of these folders below if present, and select 'Move to Trash'.
UBF8T346G9.ms
UBF8T346G9.Office
UBF8T346G9.OfficeOsfWebHost
Part 3. Remove Office Apps from Dock:
Step 1: If any Office apps are put in the dock on your Mac. Locate each of them.
Step 2: Ctrl + click and choose 'Options'.
Step 3: Select 'Remove from Dock'.
After all the steps above, restart your Mac to finish the uninstallation for MS Office completely.
3. Uninstall Microsoft Office on Mac Easily
If you find there are too many steps in the manual operation and if you are tired of following all the steps, the Uninstaller in FonePaw MacMaster can help you a lot.
FonePaw MacMaster's Uninstaller allows you to quickly uninstall Microsoft Office and all the associated files from Mac within just a few clicks. It is easier in operation than you uninstalling them manually. What's more, it can also clean up system caches and other junk files on your Mac.
Here's how to uninstall Office on Mac with MacMaster's Uninstaller:
Download and launch FonePaw MacMaster.Select 'Uninstaller' at the left sidebar.
Click on 'Scan' to scan out all the apps installed on your Mac.
In the app list, click on all of the Microsoft Office apps. If there are too many apps to locate the Office apps, use the search bar at the upper right.
Type in the app's name and select it.Click on 'Clean' button. After the cleanup process, all of the Microsoft Office apps are uninstalled completely from your Mac.
FonePaw MacMaster can also clean duplicate files, cache files, browsing history, iTunes junks and more on your Mac.
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If you are feeling your Mac is running “slow” AND if you have Microsoft Office installed, then you can try removing Microsoft Office. I removed it (Microsoft Office) and my Mac got all its speed back. To confirm this, my other friends also noticed considerable speed improvement for Mac, when they removed Microsoft office.
Microsoft Office 2008
For Microsoft Office 2008, Microsoft provides a small tool called “Remove Office” under /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Additional Tools. At first, it may look like it does remove office completely as its name suggest but that is not true. You need to follow official 2008 uninstallation instructions posted by Microsoft here.
Microsoft Office 2011
For Office 2011, Microsoft doesn’t provide any “Remove Office” tools! You need to follow official 2011 uninstallation instructions posted by Microsoft here. I know instructions are quite lengthy and cumbersome for average users but that only official way.
(Unofficial) Uninstaller for Microsoft office 2011
Unofficially, you can use a third party tool I found here – http://www.fixkb.com/downloads?did=9 I found it after my job was done so I could not test it. But it seem to work as you can see from comments on this post.
Alternatives to Microsoft Office…
For Mac, there are many alternatives. I found all of them very disappointing to be honest.
Fully Uninstall Microsoft Office 2011 Mac Catalina
Its not speed-issue only about Microsoft Office.They have many more issues so no votes for Microsoft Office anyway!
Microsoft Office Uninstall Tool
For word files, I use Mac’s “Preview” application as default application to “open” documents. 99% of the time I need to “read” only word files I come across.
If I need to “write”, I prefer Google Docs. In cases where I need to “edit” existing word files, I either upload them on Google Docs or open with them on LibreOffice. I use LibreOffice for opening Powerpoint as well as Excel files also.
Sometimes LibreOffice breaks formatting but this occasional breaking of formatting is better than using a slow Mac always! 🙂