Office 2011 doesn’t includes any built in uninstallers. In this guide, i will list down the steps you can take to completely uninstall Office 2011 from your MAC. There are two methods and you may proceed with the one you feel comfortable with.
Method 1: Uninstall via Our Uninstall Tool
Download and run the uninstall app. After you run the app, a dialog will appear which will prompt you to confirm removal. Click Continue when you see this. After it has completed, click OK. Then remove any office icons left in the dock Download Office 2011 Uninstall App
If you also have Office 2008, then follow these steps:
1. Open the Applications Folder from Finder
2. Locate and open the Office 2008 folder
3. Open Additional Tools
4. Go to Remove Office Folder
5. After it has opened, hit Continue and it will locate all versions of Office.
6. Once it has found versions of Office 2011 on your system, click Continue else Close the Application.
Method 2: Uninstall Manually
- Go to your Applications folder.
- 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.
- Go to your home folder, open the Library folder and then open the Preferences folder.
- Remove the “Microsoft” folder.
- Remove any files beginning with “com.microsoft.office”.
- Go to the “/Library/Application Support” folder from your main hard drive and remove the “Microsoft” folder.
- Go to the “/Library/Preferences” folder and remove the “com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist” file.
- Go to the “/Library/LaunchDaemons” folder from your main hard drive and delete the “com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist” file.
- Go to the “/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools” folder from your main hard drive and delete the “com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper” file.
- Go to the “/Library/Internet Plug-Ins” folder from your main hard drive and delete the “SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin” and “SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin” files.
- Go to the “/Library/Receipts” folder from your main hard drive and delete the any files beginning with “Office2011_”.
- Whilst still browsing a folder, press cmd + Shift + G.
- Type in “/var/db/receipts/” and press Enter.
- Remove any files in the folder beginning with “com.microsoft.office” or “com.microsoft.mau”.
- Go to the “/Library/Automator” folder from your main hard drive.
- If you don’t use the Automator application then you can delete all the files. Otherwise, delete the following files:
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- If you have other versions of Microsoft Office installed, it would be advisable to reinstall them.
