Uninstall Microsoft® Office®
Guidelines to Uninstall Microsoft Office
The Microsoft Office is an office suite created and introduced by Microsoft Corporation in 1989. This office suite offers interrelated desktop application, services and servers for Windows and Mac Operating System. The first version of Microsoft Office contained Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Excel. Later the professional version of this Microsoft Office contained Schedule Plus and Microsoft Access. Later this office suite application has grown with more advanced features in it. These features include common spell checker, Microsoft Basic for applications scripting language and OLE data integration. This Microsoft Office has several versions like Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X. The latest version of this office suit is Microsoft Office 2010 released on 2010, June 15. The features of this Office suite make computing much easier and offer excellent performance with it. This office suite delivers the core desktop productivity tools. New features included in these programs enhance how employees could work with one another and with customers, and how organizations capture and use information.
Following are some tips to uninstall Microsoft Office:
- Remove manually
- By Windows cleanup utility
- By using uninstall tool
Remove manually
This might be a lengthy and time consuming process. This process is mainly recommended for computer experts. In this process you might have to find out and remove all those files and folders regarding Microsoft Office. For this go to ‘Start’ menu and click ‘Run’ and you receive a command box. Type ‘%windir%installer’ into the box and select ‘Ok’. Then open the installer folder, where you would see a white blank space. Then right click there and select ‘View details’. Then go to Windows tool bar and select ‘View’ and then select ‘Status Bar’. There you might find a lot of files regarding Windows Office. Click on each Windows Installer package and then right click in order to uninstall them.
By Windows cleanup utility
In order to uninstall the Microsoft Office in your system you might have to download the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and install it into your system. After this process run the installed utility program. You might receive a list of programs and you need to select the Microsoft Office files from it and then click ‘Remove’. Restart the system after this clean up procedure. Then you might have to click ‘Done’ in order to exit from this program. Users are recommended to close all other applications in order to check whether Microsoft Office has been removed completely from your system.
Removing Windows Office suite by ‘Windows Add/ remove program’ might not be always successful. In this case you have another option that is using uninstall tool. The ‘Windows Add/ remove program’ might not be able to clean the registry entries of the concerned program. So for uninstalling programs completely and quickly users are recommended to use uninstall tools. These tools not only uninstall the specific applications, but also clean up the associated registry files also. For this you need to download any good uninstall tool from Internet, then select the unwanted programs and click ‘Uninstall’ button.
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