How To Remove Microsoft Word (2008/2011) on Mac

By Tasnia Salinas, on January 12, 2021, in Mac Uninstaller

What Is Microsoft Word?Microsoft Word (or simply Word) is a word processor developed by Microsoft, also is the most widely used word processing program on the market. Microsoft Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx filename extension, which is also supported by Pages, an Apple's native word processor app.

Why uninstalling Microsoft Word on Mac? Before Word 2010 (Word 14) for macOS, the program was unable to correctly handle ligatures defined in TrueType fonts. Also comparing with Pages app, Microsoft Word is not fully optimized for macOS, which leads many quits on this word utility. Either you have trouble with Microsoft Word and want to have a quick fix, or you simply don't need Microsoft Word any more, follow our dedicated tutorial to learn how to completely uninstall Microsoft Word on Mac.

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Table of Content:

• Part 1: Uninstall Microsoft Word on Mac with Office Uninstaller
• Part 2: How To Clean Uninstall Microsoft Word on Mac [Time-Saving Method]

The latest Office edition is its 365 suite, which includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint for Mac, etc. It's a pity that Microsoft doesn't have an official Word Uninstaller program so we recommend you to follow our specific tutorial to clean uninstall Microsoft Word on your Mac.

• Step 1: Quit Microsoft Word and kill all running threads in Terminal > Open Finder > Applications > Office 365 >  Move Microsoft Word to Trash:

• Step 2: Locate Microsoft Word generated document caches, user profiles, customized Word themes, templates and other third-party Microsoft Word Add-on tools, open Finder > Go > Go To Folder > Enter ~/Library/Application/Support/Microsoft Word/

• Step 3: Clean up the following Microsoft Word reluctant leftover:
com.microsoft.errorreporting
com.microsoft.Word
com.microsoft.netlib.shipassertprocess
com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2
com.microsoft.RMS-XPCService
com.microsoft.Word
com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2

• Step 4: Clean up all these application leftover files that're related to Microsoft Word to Trash > Empty Trash and restart your Mac to finish the uninstalling of Microsoft Word on your Mac.

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