If you’ve simply had enough of Office 2016 crashing on your Mac or just want to completely remove it, here’s how to fully uninstall Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. Office 2016 is a huge package taking up more than 6GB of disk space (compared to 2.5GB in Office 2011 for Mac) with hundreds of files, libraries and components. Office 2016 applications will either use the Microsoft Auto-Update (MAU) tool that might be on the system already with Office 2011 if it exists, or if MAU doesn’t seem to exist on the system, the applications will simply not offer any interface with which to check for updates.
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I do not know when or how it had happened, but sometime after updating Windows, I found that I was unable to open Word, Excel, PowerPoint or any Office documents. It looked like my Microsoft Office installation had become corrupt.
I tried to uninstall Office through the Control Panel > Programs and Features > Uninstall applet. But it did not work. Right-clicking, selecting Change and trying to repair Office also did not work.
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Read:How to install Office 365 on Windows PC.
Then I came across this tool from Microsoft Fix that lets you easily remove or completely uninstall Office 365 or Office 2019/2016/2013 suites and programs.
Uninstall Microsoft Office
Download the Microsoft Fix It, exit all Microsoft Office programs and run the Fix It.
It will ask if you’d like to Apply the fix or Skip the fix and continue troubleshooting. To uninstall Office, I selected Apply this fix.
The uninstaller will run for a minute or two.
After a few minutes, the troubleshooter would have completely uninstalled Microsoft Office from your computer.
If you selected the Troubleshoot option earlier, you would be notified of problems found, if any.
Clicking on View detailed information will give you some more information about the problems.
You can download this Office Uninstaller Tool from KB2739501 and run it to uninstall Office from your Windows computer. You can also use this new Troubleshooter from Microsoft that lets you completely uninstall the latest Office 2019/2016/2013 versions from Windows 10/8/7.
Have a look at Office Configuration Analyzer Tool. It will help you analyze & identify Office program problems.
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I’m ready to switch from Apple Pages to Microsoft Word and hear that Microsoft just released an entirely new and updated Office 2016. What’s the easy way to upgrade?
You’re correct that Microsoft has just released a completely new, completely redesigned version of its flagship product, Microsoft Office, for Mac systems. In fact, it’s a cross-platform release and is new for Windows systems too, along with iPad, Android and Windows tablet support and a completely different way of working with OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage system (that competes with iCloud, Apple’s cloud storage system).
The entire Microsoft Office 2016 suite for Mac includes Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Word and Outlook, though it sounds like you might only be looking for the word processor piece of that (Microsoft Word). Unlike previous years when it was priced at almost $500 for the entire suite of programs, Microsoft’s apparently rethought its pricing strategy too and you can get everything for $150 in the Home & Student download edition through, for example, Amazon.com.
We were lucky here at AskDaveTaylor in that Microsoft sent us along a license key for testing and review purposes. That’s my disclosure too, in case you’re wondering. 🙂
To get started with the download, you can log in to the Office 365 site after you’ve received your license key (either from Amazon, Microsoft.com, or from purchasing a license at the local retail store). It’ll look like this:
If you look closely, you’ll see that mine shows “PC/Mac Installs Used: 0”. This is a big deal, actually, because for the first time I can remember, Microsoft is using the same license for either platform. With this license, I get five installs, whether I want to use them on Macs, Windows systems, iPads, or my Windows Phone is up to me. Very nice improvement over the Mac license as completely separate from a Windows license.
To proceed, I’ll click “Install >”.
Look at that list of “Other Devices”. So impressive!
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But let’s stay focused on the Mac side. You can see that since I am already on a MacBook Pro, it’s default selected “Office 2016 for Mac” as the version to install.
Sounds good! A click on “Install” and it’ll download the Office Installer:
I found this download to move pretty quickly, but depending on connectivity, it might take you a few minutes to get the entire package.
Once downloaded, the installer should pop right up and start:
If you’ve used the Mac for any length of time, you’re already familiar with this process.
Let’s look at one thing, however: disk space required. That’s shown on a subsequent screen:
It’s slightly disappointing that there’s no way to pick and choose which of the Microsoft Office 2016 tools you want to install — in your case, perhaps just Word, in our case, everything but Outlook — but that’s something that can hopefully be tweaked after installation. Meanwhile, just notice the install takes up 6.78GB of space on your computer.
Before you start the install, then, make sure you have that much disk space!
A click on “Install”, a few additional clicks to accept a user license that you’re not going to read (we don’t!) and…
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Hurray! We’re done.
Well, almost.
Click “Close” and you’ll have Word 2016 launch, but with a few informational windows along the way, starting with this highlight of updated features and capabilities:
Okay, sounds good!
Click on “Get started >” to proceed and Office actually starts up:
It really is smart to use this account because it makes it absolutely a no-brainer to have cloud-based backups of your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and related.
Once you’re signed in, there’s one more step:
I picked Colorful – it’s very nice! – and, finally, a click on “Continue >” and Microsoft Word 2016 finally launches.
Office 2016 installed. Mission accomplished.
And boy is the interface a much overdue facelift and improvement, as you can see in this peek at a column I’m writing for the local newspaper in Microsoft Word 2016:
Huge props to Microsoft for a very, very well done upgrade. Office 2016 feels like a completely new and very Mac-friendly application suite that might just replace Pages, Numbers, Keynote and the rest of the Apple office suite on our Mac systems here in the office. Not to mention on our Windows systems!