Uninstall Office 2008

[iGreg]

How do you uninstall this junk? No templates, confusing, slow. I want to rid myself of this thing.

PS. I did not like how it disrupted my Fonts folders.

 

[Michel Bintener]

To uninstall Office, use the Remove Office tool in Applications/Office
2008/Additional Tools/Remove Office. You'll need to drag it to your desktop
first and then run it.

How do you uninstall this junk? No templates, confusing, slow. I want to rid
myself of this thing.

PS. I did not like how it disrupted my Fonts folders.

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Microsoft MVP
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[MDR]

I did just that. It crashes upon launch.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I did just that. It crashes upon launch.

The 2008 uninstaller??
The one located in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Additional
Tools/Remove Office/Remove Office.app??

What version of MacOS X are you running??

Corentin

 

[John Whiterforest]

Im was testing office 2008 on leopard, but the unistaller wont work. I did what you people said here, but not for me. So how can I uninstall this. Im using Leopard 10.5.1.
The unistaller just crashes.

 

[John McGhie]

Take out the Office 2008 folder from Applications, and the "Microsoft"
folder from the System preferences folder.

Just for grins, smack the /Users/~/Library/Application
Support/Microsoft/Office/ folder.

That should do it!

Im was testing office 2008 on leopard, but the unistaller wont work. I did
what you people said here, but not for me. So how can I uninstall this. Im
using Leopard 10.5.1.
The unistaller just crashes.

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[ttuyl]

you must hav an illegal copy then

lol

 

[Crebbinj]

I have the same error, if you look at the crash log it shows that the
remover is trying to access ../frameworks/ blah blah blah
This means that it has to either be run from within the Office folder
in its original place, or you need to move it into a subfolder on your
desktop and use terminal to copy the Framework directory to the
desktop... then it might run!

I ran my remover from the office folders and it *seems* to have run
fine.

For the record I am getting rid of this bloated piece of software (for
now!) as I need to run EndNote which has zero compatibility.

 

[Micro-Crap repairman]

I had the same problem. After installing Office 2008 and trying it out, I realized it was junk. I read on this forum that you were supposed to drag the Remove Office application to your desktop to run it, so I did, and it repeatedly crashed. I ran it from it's original location, and voila- no more 2008! It's no surprise that Microsoft decided to provide a remove application- it will be very useful to all!

 

[Diane Ross]

After installing Office 2008 and trying it out, I realized it was junk. I read
on this forum that you were supposed to drag the Remove Office application to
your desktop to run it,

Don't drag it to your desktop.

 

[Jason]

I just want to uninstall Entourage and Microsoft Messenger, how am I going to do this?

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

I just want to uninstall Entourage and Microsoft Messenger, how am I going to
do this?

You can drag them to the trash, but why bother. Just don¹t start them.
Besides if they are gone, future updates to your other apps my not work
properly.

 

[druid]

I am removing Office 2008 and reinstalling Office 2004. Previously, I let the new version remove the old. Will I have any issues in going back to it?

I have to say that I'm very disappointed with the new suite. It's a memory hog, even when I shut down most of the fonts and features.

 

[John McGhie]

You should run the Remove Office Tool for 2008 to take it out. The 2004
tool can't remove 2008.

The only issue is with Entourage.

Office 2004 can't read the Office 2008 database, so if you have been using
Entourage for mail, you need to export the email you need to keep to mBox
files and re-import them to 2004.

Alternatively, you can upload them all to your IMAP server if you have one,
or to your .mac account, then re-download them to 2004.

Note that you do not need to uninstall 2008. 2004 and 2008 will run just
fine side-by-side, PROVIDED that you do not run more than one version of
Entourage. If you make a mistake, you will get a really impressive lockup


Hope this helps

I am removing Office 2008 and reinstalling Office 2004. Previously, I let the
new version remove the old. Will I have any issues in going back to it?

I have to say that I'm very disappointed with the new suite. It's a memory
hog, even when I shut down most of the fonts and features.

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[Barkley Bees]

What did it do to your fonts folder?
How do you uninstall this junk? No templates, confusing, slow. I want to rid myself of this thing.

PS. I did not like how it disrupted my Fonts folders.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Office 2004 can't read the Office 2008 database, so if you have been using
Entourage for mail, you need to export the email you need to keep to mBox
files and re-import them to 2004.

I think using File | Export to Export the entire thing to an .rge will
let 2004 re-import the .rge and keep more stuff intact.

 

[John McGhie]

Good question! I would be fascinated to see the answer

Office 2008 installs a single folder at the System level, containing 127 new
fonts designed to work better with the new typesetting features available in
OS 10.5.

It then moves clashing older versions of those fonts to a fonts.disabled
folder in each User ID, to avoid the crashes that can be caused by
incompatible fonts.

What did it do to your fonts folder?
How do you uninstall this junk? No templates, confusing, slow. I want to rid
myself of this thing.

PS. I did not like how it disrupted my Fonts folders.

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Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50

 

[Don Gephart]

I do not want to use my day or entourage, so i moved them to the trash as you all said. But My Day still opens up to tell me about my appointments that synced when i installed it. I don't want to use My Day, i would rather use iCal :angry:

 

[iGreg]

McGhie describes the fonts mess exactly. I am still sorting it out little by little.

 

[iGreg]

BTW, the simple way for Microsoft to avoid this mess is if Office installed NO fonts at all and needed only the basic Apple system fonts to function correctly. Naturally, users could always add additional fonts that they wanted to use. Rather than Microsoft throwing over a hundred fonts into our folders in a confusing manner involving multiple folders.