How do I un-install MS Office that came with osx

macabouttobe

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jan 8, 2008

• #1

I pulled the trigger on Iwork, and see no reason to have office on my iMac. Any suggestions on how to un-install Office?

Also, I notice office is auto-launched when I open word attachments - is there anything special I need to do to make my iWork the default program for MS Office attachments. I'm using iMail.

Thanks! I couldn't find this in my forum search.

 

iMpathetic

macrumors 68030

• Jan 8, 2008

• #2

Meh, just drag the Office folder into the trash and empty it.

 

swiftaw

macrumors 603

• Jan 8, 2008

• #3

Actually, I'm pretty sure there's an uninstaller.

Edit: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004td

 

theLimit

macrumors 6502a

• Jan 8, 2008

• #4

Go to /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Additional Tools/Remove Office/ and run the Remove Office application.

 

macabouttobe

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jan 9, 2008

• #5

That did the trick! Very easy - thanks for the direction.

Note to those who use Time Machine. Eject the time machine drive before running the uninstall. The uninstall does a search for office components and includes the time machine drive in the search. It will give you an error as it tries to do whatever it does to the time machine drive.