Installing new copy of Office Mac v.x: Delete old one first?

[Scott Wilson]

I had the same serial # of Office v.x installed on 2 Macs on my home
network, so we could use it at either location (but only a single
location at a time). Now with my wife teaching fulltime we both need
to use Word and PowerPoint a lot, often concurrently. We purchased a
second copy of Office, the Academic version this time, and I am trying
to find out -- before starting -- whether I need to completely
uninstall the earlier Office suite ( and the troublesome serial
number) before I try to install the new Academic version. It doesn't
appear that Office ships with a de facto uninstaller program, how is
the best way to proceed?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I had the same serial # of Office v.x installed on 2 Macs on my home
network, so we could use it at either location (but only a single
location at a time). Now with my wife teaching fulltime we both need
to use Word and PowerPoint a lot, often concurrently. We purchased a
second copy of Office, the Academic version this time, and I am trying
to find out -- before starting -- whether I need to completely
uninstall the earlier Office suite ( and the troublesome serial
number) before I try to install the new Academic version. It doesn't
appear that Office ships with a de facto uninstaller program, how is
the best way to proceed?

Office v.X does have an uninstaller - it's the Remove Office app, found
in the Value Pack folder of the install disk. However, you don't need to
uninstall office to change the PID. See

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html