Remove microsoft office 2008 mac mac#

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. 99% of the time I need to “read” only word files I come across. Its not speed-issue only about Microsoft Office.They have many more issues so no votes for Microsoft Office anyway!įor word files, I use Mac’s “Preview” application as default application to “open” documents. And then delete files referring to Office 2008. find / -iname office -or -iname microsoft > /Desktop/2008.txt You can easily find the result in /Desktop/2008.txt.

Remove microsoft office 2008 mac mac#

So I have to uninstall Office 2008 from my Mac first. I found all of them very disappointing to be honest. Basically, without trying to fix Office Uninstaller nor using any other Microsoft tools, you can search your any files containing the name office or microsoft. Uninstall Office 2008 Mac I'm trying Office 360 and it feels great. Alternatives to Microsoft Office…įor Mac, there are many alternatives. But it seem to work as you can see from comments on this post. Unofficially, you can use a third party tool I found here – I found it after my job was done so I could not test it. (Unofficial) Uninstaller for Microsoft office 2011 I know instructions are quite lengthy and cumbersome for average users but that only official way. Microsoft Office 2011įor Office 2011, Microsoft doesn’t provide any “Remove Office” tools! You need to follow official 2011 uninstallation instructions posted by Microsoft here. You need to follow official 2008 uninstallation instructions posted by Microsoft here. At first, it may look like it does remove office completely as its name suggest but that is not true. Microsoft Office 2008įor Microsoft Office 2008, Microsoft provides a small tool called “Remove Office” under /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Additional Tools.

To confirm this, my other friends also noticed considerable speed improvement for Mac, when they removed Microsoft office.

I removed it (Microsoft Office) and my Mac got all its speed back. If you are feeling your Mac is running “slow” AND if you have Microsoft Office installed, then you can try removing Microsoft Office.