Microsoft has been readying its latest update to Office for Mac, and recently. 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. It’s no great mystery why we’d want to uninstall Office 2011.

Unfortunately, after Mac OS X 10.7, Apple decided to hide this folder on your computer. So let's unlock it first. First you'll need to open Finder, click on 'Go' in the menu bar, hold down on the Alt/Option key to bring up the Library option, then click on it.

It’s just never felt like a real OS X application, or even a decent version of Office. Yes, it gets the job done but the interface is a mess and downright ugly.

Word 2011 for Mac is so, so ugly. The new version of Office by contrast is clean and much more Office-looking. Custom mac for iptv stalker kodi download. Office 2016 for Mac better resembles the Windows version, which will likely please switchers.

Speaking of Windows, uninstalling Office on it is a simple matter of opening Programs & Features from the Control Panel and removing the application there. It takes a few minutes and is entirely automated. Removing Office 2011 on Mac however, can be best described as a labyrinthine process. Microsoft lays the process out in, but it’s a little difficult to follow. It won’t hurt your Mac to simply drag the application folder to the trash and move on from there, but the Office installation (which is automated) places files all over your Mac, so if you really want it all gone, you have to root around your hard drive and delete everything by hand. Step Zero: Quit Everything The first thing you need to do before you can remove Office 2011 is to make sure none of its applications are running. The easiest way to do this is to simply use “Command + Tab” to switch between running apps.

If any are running, simply use “Command + Q” to quit them. Remove the Office Folder and Dock Icons Open your Applications folder and locate the “Microsoft Office 2011 folder. Click and drag it to the trash.

While you’re at it, you can also remove the Office icons from your Dock (if you have any pinned there). The simplest way to do this is to click and drag them out of the Dock. Microsoft divides this into two steps. You could simply stop here Office would be basically uninstalled, but as we said before, there’s a lot of little files that Office writes all over you drive. If you want it all gone, roll up your sleeves and get to it. Removing the Preferences, Subscription File, and License Once you remove the application files, it’s time to start removing all the little files spread throughout your system.

One of the best ways to navigate your way through the Finder, is to. To remove the preferences, open the Library in your Home folder. Click “Go,” hold the “Option” key, and click “Library.” Navigate to the “Preferences” and arrange everything by Name. It’s probably a good idea to change your view in Finder to a list. Select all the files (you can hold “Shift” to select a range of files) that start with “ com.microsoft” and drag them to the trash.