Clean Old Files Microsoft Office Mac

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Clean Old Files Microsoft Office Mac 2020
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The best way to get a clean system would be to remove the old version completely, then install the new version. However, this is not an option for you any more, due to already having trashed (some of) the old files. The files installed with every Office version are recorded in /var/db/receipts, in files starting with com.microsoft.office. There's a lot of those files, as Office comes in parts (Excel, Word, Proofing Tools, etc.) and also one for each update installed. Delete all recent word and excel files on a mac I am trying to find out how to delete ALL recent files on Word and Excel. I can only see how to delete individual files but I want the whole history cleared. Open your Applications folder and locate the “Microsoft Office 2011 folder. Click and drag it to the trash. While you’re at it, you can also remove the Office icons from your Dock (if you have any pinned there). The simplest way to do this is to click and drag them out of the Dock.

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Sometimes after uninstalling older versions of Microsoft Office some registry keys are left behind. This causes Spiceworks to think that those older versions of Office are still installed, even though the actual program files are all removed. You can follow the steps here to clean up those old registry keys so Spiceworks can get a proper inventory of the software on the machine.

NOTE: Please make a backup of Registry before making any changes to it. You can severely damage a machine if an incorrect edit is made.

4 Steps total

Step 1: Open up RegEdit

Open up RegEdit by going to Start>Run and typing 'regedit' and pressing Enter or OK. You can also enter the 'regedit' command into a Command Prompt to open up the editor.

Step 2: Locate the Office Registry Key

Microsoft stores all of the installation information for Office Products in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice. Underneath this key you will see various version numbers, each corresponding to different versions of Office. They are as follows:

-9.0 is Office 2000
-10.0 is Office XP
-11.0 is Office 2003
-12.0 is Office 2007
-14.0 is Office 2010

Office 2011 life cycle. At that point MS will no longer provide updates to fix any problems, especially security bugs.Bottom line, it is probably time for you to pay for a new version of Office (sorry).should be able to copy the files from the installation disk to a USB drive or to OneDrive. But Office 2011 is reaching the end of its support cycle by MS next month, Oct 2017.

Step 3: Locate the Corresponding Registration Key

Underneath each of the version number keys you should see a 'Registration' key. Depending on how many Office products you have installed (Visio, Project, etc. all will be stored underneath one of those version keys) on the machine there will be multiple hashed keys present underneath the Registration key. Each of these hashed keys should have a value underneath it called 'ProductName'. You can use this value to correctly determine which hashed key is related to the product you want to remove.

Step 4: Delete the Hashed Key

Once you have located the correct hashed registry key, delete it. As mentioned above, though, make sure you have a good backup before doing this!

Once you have performed the steps above run a scan on the device by either running a full network scan or a rescan underneath the Tools section of the device. Once the scan is complete you should see that the long deleted Office products are now gone from your Spiceworks Inventory. If the scan is still showing that the software is present, you might need to disable Incremental Scanning in Settings>Network Scan.

I hope this helps!