How to remove proofing tools?

[Qercus]

I made a standard installation of Office 2008 for Mac, and realized that several proofing tools (many languages) that I never will use, were installed. How can I remove these proofing tools in the safest way to regain hard disk space?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

They are stored here:
Applications:Microsoft Office 2008:Office:Shared Applicationsroofing
Tools:

Messing about with the installation like that is not recommended by MS,
so I don't know that there's a safe way--If you must, then Quit all
Office apps first--move them to a new folder and then Archive/Zip it,
and see if problems come up before you actually delete anything.

But all the proofing tools together take about 150MB, so honestly, is
that worth the trouble?

 

[CyberTaz]

Trust Me - as Daiya suggested & despite what you may have read in the 'How
to clean up your Mac' type articles - messing with core components of *any*
application is a recipe for disaster.

If you're that hard up for free space & can't afford to buy a new/additional
HD, you'll find plenty of other stuff to remove that will free up more space
than the proofing tools

How about some of the several hundred fonts you probably have - of which you
& the OS/apps probably only ever use about 20? What about periodically
clearing your internet caches & browser history? Maybe move some of the user
files you created some time ago & haven't had reason to even look at since
into compressed archives or onto CDs? Do you really need the plethora of
'widgets' Apple has so graciously provided - how many of them do you
actually use?... Ad Infinitum

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac