A complete uninstall of Microsoft Office for Mac

With the following instruction you can manually delete remaining Remove remnants of Microsoft Office programs from your Mac. This is usually necessary to restore your freshly to successfully install the purchased Office package.

Step 1

Open the finder and navigate to the Applications.

Step 2

Now click while holding Command key (cmd)to select all Office Mac applications.

Step 3

First, click while holding down CTRL key on the selected applications. You can then right-click the selected files put in the trash.

Step 4

Removing files from the library

  1. In Finder, press ⌘+ Shift + g.
  2. Now enter in the window that opens ~/Library and then click Go.
  3. Open the folder container and click while holding CTRL keyto the individual files and to Put in the trash


Notice: Some of these folders may not exist and must be searched for manually in the search bar:

microsoft.errorreporting
microsoft.Excel
microsoft.netlib.shipassertprocess
microsoft.Office365ServiceV2
microsoft.Outlook
microsoft.PowerPoint
microsoft.RMS-XPCService
microsoft.Word
microsoft.onenote.mac
To return to the "Library" folder, simply click the "Back" arrow. Then, open the "Group Containers" folder and hold down the "CTRL" key while clicking on the folders, if they exist. Then select the "Move to Trash" option to delete them.
    • ms
    • Office
    • OfficeOsfWebHost

Danger(!): Moving the three files to the Recycle Bin will delete the Outlook data. Therefore, we recommend backing up the folders before following the steps below.
  1. Emptying Now empty the trash to completely remove the programs from your device.
  2. Go to your Dock if you have Office applications there, then hold down the CTRL key and click Options > Remove from Dock.
Now perform a Restart so that the changes are applied.
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