Office 2011 doesn’t include 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.
Remove Office 2011 from Mac
Method 1: Uninstall Using Our Uninstallation Tool
Download and run the uninstall app. After you run the app, a dialogue will appear, prompting you to confirm removal. Click ‘Continue’ when you see this. After it has completed, click ‘OK’. Then, remove any remaining Office icons left in the dock. Download the Office 2011 Uninstall App .
If you also have Office 2008, then follow these steps:
- Open the Applications folder from Finder. 2. Locate and open the Office 2008 folder. 3. Open Additional Tools 4. Go to the ‘Remove Office Folder.’ 5. After it has opened, click Continue, and the program will locate all versions of Office. 6. Once it has found versions of Office 2011 on your system, click ‘Continue’; otherwise, close the application.
Method 1: 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 proceed 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 on 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 on 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 on 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_”.
- While still browsing a folder, press Cmd + Shift + G.
- Type in “/var/db/receipts/” and press Enter.
- Remove any files in the folder that begin 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, you can delete all the files. Otherwise, delete the following files: Add attachments to Outlook messages. Add content to Word documents action. Add Document Properties Page to Word Documents.action Add a new sheet to the workbook’s action. Add Table of Contents to Word Documents.action Add Watermark to Word Documents.action Apply Animation to PowerPoint Slide Parts.action Apply Font Format Settings to Word Documents.action AutoFormat Data in Excel Workbooks.action Bring Word documents to the front (action). Close the Excel workbooks’ action. Close Outlook items action. Close PowerPoint Presentations.action Close Word documents action. Combine PowerPoint Presentations.action Combine word documents action. Compare word documents action. Convert the format of Excel files action. Convert the format of PowerPoint presentations action. Convert the format of Word documents action. Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Movies.action Convert the Word Content Object to a Text Object action. Copy the content of the Excel workbook to the clipboard. CopyPowerPoint slides to the clipboard action. Copy Word Document Content to the Clipboard.action Create a List from Data in Workbook.action Create a new Excel workbook action. Create a new Outlook mail message action. Create New PowerPoint Presentation.action Create New Word Document.action Create a PowerPoint picture slide shows action. Create a table from data in the workbook action. Delete Outlook Items.action Find and Replace Text in Word Documents” action. Flag Word documents for follow-up action. Forward Outlook Mail Messages” action. Get Content from Word Documents.action Get images from PowerPoint slides action. Get images from Word documents action. Get Parent Presentations of Slides action. Get Parent Workbooks Action. Get Selected Content from Excel Workbooks.action Get Selected Content from Word Documents.action Get Selected Outlook Items.action Get Selected Text from Outlook Items.action Get Text From Outlook Mail Messages.action Get Text from Word Documents.action Import Text Files to Excel Workbook.action Insert Captions into Word Documents.action Insert Content into Outlook Mail Messages.action Insert Content into Word Documents.action Insert New PowerPoint Slides.action Mark Outlook Mail Message as a To Do Item.action Office.definition Open Excel Workbooks.action Open Outlook Items.action Open PowerPoint Presentations.action Open Word Documents.action Paste Clipboard Content into Excel Workbooks.action Paste Clipboard Content into Outlook Items.action Paste Clipboard Content into PowerPoint Presentations.action Paste Clipboard Content into Word Documents.action Play PowerPoint Slide Shows.action Print Excel Workbooks.action Print Outlook Messages.action Print PowerPoint Presentations.action Print Word Documents.action Protect Word Documents.action Quit Excel.action Quit Outlook.action Quit PowerPoint.action Quit Word.action Reply to Outlook Mail Messages.action Save Excel Workbooks.action Save Outlook Draft Messages.action Save Outlook Items as Files.action Save Outlook Messages as Files.action Save PowerPoint Presentations.action Save Word Documents.action Search Outlook Items.action Select Cells in Excel Workbooks.action Select PowerPoint Slides.action Send Outgoing Outlook Mail Messages.action Set Category of Outlook Items.action Set Document Settings.action Set Excel Workbook Properties.action Set Footer for PowerPoint Slides.action Set Outlook Contact Properties.action Set PowerPoint Slide Layout.action Set PowerPoint Slide Transition Settings.action Set Security Options for Word Documents.action Set Text Case in Word Documents.action Set Word Document Properties.action Sort Data in Excel Workbooks.action
- Remove all the shortcuts from the Dock.
- If you have other versions of Microsoft Office installed, it would be advisable to reinstall them.
