You can then check how much free space you have using Finder. If you’ve deleted everything but still aren’t seeing as much free space as you’d have hoped, give your Mac a restart by clicking Apple > Restart. Finally, open the Trash and click “Empty” to permanently delete everything you just removed. You can do this by clicking and dragging the dock icon until you see “Remove” appear, then release. Lastly, any dock items you might still have should be removed.

Remove Any Dock Icons Left Over and Empty Trash any files that begin “Office2011_” from Library/Receipts.

the “Microsoft” folder from Library/Fonts.

the “Microsoft” folder from Library/Application Support.

.helper from Library/PrivilegedHelperTools.

Now delete the following from the following folders within Library. Hit Shift+Command+G in Finder and type /Library to open your main Library folder. Delete the “Office” folder.įinally, remove licensing helpers from the main Library folder. Next, hit Shift+Command+G in Finder and enter ~Library/Application Support/Microsoft followed by Enter. Next, open the “ByHost” folder within the Preferences folder and also delete “com.microsoft” files. if you are still using Office for Mac 2016). In Finder hit Shift+Command+G, enter ~Library/Preferences, and do the same to files starting with “com.microsoft” in there too (except for. Delete files starting with “com.microsoft” from this folder. Open Finder and hit Shift+Command+G then enter ~Library/Preferences followed by enter.

If you’re removing Office for Mac 2011, there are a few different files you’ll need to delete to remove Office completely. Highlight and delete the following, if present: Finally, hit Shift+Command+G and enter ~/Library/Group Containers followed by enter.

Now delete the files using the Command+Delete keyboard shortcut. On macOS 10 or newer, highlight (by holding the Command key and clicking) these:

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