How to control your Office 2011 update installation.

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear friends:

Today, I have in my Mac the following components of Office 2008
installed: Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage.

I want to upgrade this installation to Office 2011 but, in order to
save disk space, avoiding the duplicate products. I want to have only
Word (2011), Excel (2011), Powerpoint (2011), Outlook (2011) and
Entourage (2008), of course without loosing my email or office data.

Is this possible, or I will end with *all* the component products
duplicated?

When I updated my original Office 2004 installation to Office 2008
some years ago, I didn't get any product duplication, will be the same
today?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I want to upgrade this installation to Office 2011 but, in order to
save disk space, avoiding the duplicate products. I want to have only
Word (2011), Excel (2011), Powerpoint (2011), Outlook (2011) and
Entourage (2008), of course without loosing my email or office data.

In the installer, you can click the Customize button and select what
you want installed.

Corentin

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear Corentin & friends:

In the installer, you can click the Customize button and select what
you want installed.

Corentin

But, selecting the Customize button, does it allow you to select to
install a component *replacing* the old one, or *aside* the old one?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

But, selecting the Customize button, does it allow you to select to
install a component *replacing* the old one, or *aside* the old one?

The installer doesn't touch any previous install of Office. You will
have to manually remove what you don't want to keep from previous
versions.

Corentin

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear Corentin & friends:

The installer doesn't touch any previous install of Office. You will
have to manually remove what you don't want to keep from previous
versions.

Corentin

How? Manually deleting files with the Finder?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

How? Manually deleting files with the Finder?

Sure.

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

How? Manually deleting files with the Finder?

Let me clarify: If you want to remove - lets say Excel, simply drag the
icon of the application to the trash.
As long as you want to keep some of the Office 2008 components on your
Mac, you don;t want to trash anything else (since they're likely to be
shared with other components).

The Office install consists in a few things:
- everything in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008
- some fonts
- some shared components (auto updater, error reporting)
- automator actions
- the receipts in ~/Library/Receipts and /var/db/receipts (and you can
safely ignore them).

Unless I'm mistaking, there isn't much more to it. Of course, it
doesn't account for user files, identity, scripts and templates or
preferences, but the uninstaller doesn't touch them either.
Even if you wanted to uninstall it all manually, it wouldn't be that bad.


Corentin

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear Corentin & friends:

Let me clarify: If you want to remove - lets say Excel, simply drag the
icon of the application to the trash.
As long as you want to keep some of the Office 2008 components on your
Mac, you don;t want to trash anything else (since they're likely to be
shared with other components).

The Office install consists in a few things:
- everything in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008
- some fonts
- some shared components (auto updater, error reporting)
- automator actions
- the receipts in ~/Library/Receipts and /var/db/receipts (and you can
safely ignore them).

Unless I'm mistaking, there isn't much more to it. Of course, it
doesn't account for user files, identity, scripts and templates or
preferences, but the uninstaller doesn't touch them either.
Even if you wanted to uninstall it all manually, it wouldn't be that bad.


Corentin

I think that I am not understanding well what you say.

In the last paragraph, you mentioned an "uninstaller": where is it
located? Is it an "Office 2008 Uninstaller"?

But also you said that a solution could be deleting the old Office
program files using the finder, without using any uninstaller. Could
you explain these issues?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)

 

[SamR]

Dear friends:

Today, I have in my Mac the following components of Office 2008
installed: Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage.

I want to upgrade this installation to Office 2011 but, in order to
save disk space, avoiding the duplicate products. I want to have only
Word (2011), Excel (2011), Powerpoint (2011), Outlook (2011) and
Entourage (2008), of course without loosing my email or office data.

Is this possible, or I will end with *all* the component products
duplicated?

When I updated my original Office 2004 installation to Office 2008
some years ago, I didn't get any product duplication, will be the same
today?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)

Juan:

Te recomiendo que no reemplazes la version 2008 todavia. Yo he tenido
que volver a usarla despues de intalar Office 2011 porque me ha dado
problemas. Espera unos meses de uso para remover 2008.

Saludos paisano,

Samuel (NY)

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Juan:

Te recomiendo que no reemplazes la version 2008 todavia. Yo he tenido
que volver a usarla despues de intalar Office 2011 porque me ha dado
problemas. Espera unos meses de uso para remover 2008.

Saludos paisano,

Samuel (NY)

Gracias!!!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

BTW, you also sent me this by e-mail, but your server is systematically
rejecting replies.

I think that I am not understanding well what you say.

In the last paragraph, you mentioned an "uninstaller": where is it
located? Is it an "Office 2008 Uninstaller"?

Sure, it's in the Office 2008 folder itself. In the Additional Tools subfolder.
It doesn’t discreminate though and trashes all of Office.

But also you said that a solution could be deleting the old Office
program files using the finder, without using any uninstaller. Could
you explain these issues?

The uninstaller trashes everything.
Through the Finder, you can select the applications you want to trash
yourself, leaving the rest on your Mac.

Corentin

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear Corentin & friends:

BTW, you also sent me this by e-mail, but your server is
systematically rejecting replies.








Sure, it's in the Office 2008 folder itself. In the Additional Tools
subfolder.
It doesn’t discreminate though and trashes all of Office.


The uninstaller trashes everything.
Through the Finder, you can select the applications you want to trash
yourself, leaving the rest on your Mac.

Corentin

Thanks a lot!!