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Yesterday I installed iWorks 08 on my MacBook and decided I didn’t need Office 2008 for Mac so I removed it. Keynote opens up PowerPoint presentations. Pages opens up Word documents. Numbers opens up Excel documents. I used Entourage, but I switch from that to Mac Mail and I think it does everything I need. iCal does the whole calendar thing and of course you have the Address Book. So I ask myself why I installed it to begin with. The only answer I can come up with is, I’m really not sure. Let’s remove it. It is super easy.

The “Remove Office” utility is located in the Applications folder.

Or you can follow the path below:

When you double click the “Remove Office” icon, this utility will search for installations off Office on your Mac. When the search is finished it will tell you how many versions it found right underneath the blue status bar in the middle. Click continue.

On the next screen, the versions found by the previous search will be listed. You can check the boxes associated with the installations you would like to remove. After checking the box or boxes, click continue.

Office is actually just moved to the trash by the uninstaller utility…I know I know, Microsoft is useless and can’t just remove it. Seriously though, thats what we get for installing Microsoft on a Mac.

So right+click on your trash bin, or open a Finder window by clicking on the Finder smiley face on the dock, then click the Finder menu in the upper left and select empty trash.

This may take a second, as there is lots to empty after removing Office.