Although Office 2016 is quite useful tool you might want to remove it if you’re not pleased with it. If you’re a Mac user and you want to remove Office 2016, today we’re going to show you how to do it. This article covers how faculty and staff can download and install Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac or PC on their personal desktop or laptop computers at home.
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Hi there, You have a 2016 Home & Student license which is known as a 'perpetual' license. There is no deactivation process for perpetual licenses (that's a facet of Subscription licensing).
If you have purchased a new Mac and you want to transfer the license, you should be able to go ahead and activate Office on your new Mac by simple signing in with your Microsoft account. Perpetual licenses have a tolerance where they allow you to activate a single license on up to 3 different computers. This tolerance is in place exactly for the machine upgrade case.
Once you have used up all 3 slots, you'll need to call Customer Support Services and request a manual activation. NOTE: Uninstalling/removing Office from the previous computer(s) won't 'free' the slot. Hope this helps, Paul Bowden Office for Mac Engineering Paul Bowden Office for Mac Engineering Redmond, WA.
Few months ago, we told you about Microsoft‘s Office 2016 for Mac release. It has been a major update regarding Office for Mac which brought many changes and features to the package components. You can read all about it in following article: If you’re curious about how you can install Office 2016 for Mac, follow this guide: Following article reviews the new features and shortcomings of Office 2016 for Mac: Today, we’re going to discuss how to uninstall Office 2016 for Mac without leaving traces. Actually, the uninstall of Office components is very simple in Mac and you have to just go Applications folder and move Office apps to trash folder. But if you uninstall this way, though the apps get uninstalled, but their data remains intact on the system. So in case if you later want to reinstall Office 2016 for Mac, then you may face issues because of traces leaved by previous installation. Hence, you should install Office 2016 for Mac completely, which is described below.
Before proceeding with the steps mentioned below, make sure that applications namely Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote and Outlook are closed and not running even in background. How To Completely Uninstall Microsoft Office 2016 For Mac 1.
From the dock, open Finder and go to Applications folder. Now highlight Office applications with following names:. Microsoft Word.app.
Microsoft OneNote.app. Microsoft Outlook.app. Microsoft PowerPoint.app. Microsoft Excel.app Do a right click on these apps one by one, and select Move to trash. Open Finder and from the options menu, click Go Go to folder.
Then you’ll see an input box asking the location for Go to the folder. Put /Library and click Go. In the Library folder, enter Application Support folder.
Inside this folder, located Microsoft folder and right click on it, select Move to trash. Similarly, trash Microsoft folder under Library Fonts. Moving on, in the Library folder open LaunchDeamons folder and drag com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist to trash or right click Move to trash.
In this manner, go to Preferences folder and drag following files to trash folder:. com.microsoft.Excel.plist. com.microsoft.office.plist. com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist. com.microsoft.outlook.databasedaemon.plist. com.microsoft.outlook.officereminders.plist.
com.microsoft.Outlook.plist. com.microsoft.PowerPoint.plist. com.microsoft.Word.plist. TIP: If you want to re-install Office for Mac later, remove the Microsoft User Data folder created after installation. Then rename back the Microsoft User Data.old folder to Microsoft User Data.
If you don’t wish to install Office for Mac again, you can simply trash the Microsoft User Data folder. Finally, in the dock, right click Trash folder and select Empty trash. Also right click on the Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac application icons, and select Options Remove from Dock. You may now reboot your Apple machine in order to complete uninstall. After restarting your system, Microsoft Office 2016 will be removed from your Mac, without leaving any traces.
Hope you find the guide helpful! See this fix, if on your Mac.