> I'm thinking you can just manually delete the program. Find word in
> your application menu and delete it.
Not applicatin menu, the Applications folder. Also, go in Library folder
of your Home folder, then into Preferences, and delete everything Office
容lated there (there'll be a couple of com.microsoft.* files and a
Microsoft folder, at least).
MT
What uninstaller did you use? If it's the one on your Office 98 install CD,
that is most likely the problem. To uninstall and reinstall, follow this
procedure:
-- Download the Office Remover from
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/down
load/office98/remove_officetools.xml&secid=20&ssid=6&flgnosysreq=False>.
-- With all Office applications closed, run the Remover. That searches your
hard disk, and particularly your System folder, to make sure everything is
removed.
-- Rebuild the desktop.
-- Reinstall Office 98 from the CD.
-- Start each Office 98 application once to cause it to initialize itself.
-- Download and install the following updaters from Mactopia.com
(<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#Office98>) in this
order:
Combined Updater for Office 98
Microsoft Office 98/Mac OS 9/Excel Y2K Updater
Microsoft Word 98 / PowerPoint 98 Updater
Microsoft Word 98 for Mac Security Update: Macro Vulnerability
PowerPoint/Excel Macro Updater
Microsoft Office 98 SSL Security Updater
There are other optional updaters which you can read about here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/default.asp?navindex=s10#Office98>
-- Rebuild the desktop.
Hope this helps.
--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP
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On 1/3/04 4:14 AM, in article
5f775304.0401...@posting.google.com, "Joan Erlewine"
Well, in that case, I'm at a loss. I have never heard of a situation where
a proper uninstaller would not uninstall. Unless someone else has a better
idea, this is one of those rare occasions where I would recommend calling MS
support, even though it costs money (if you've used up your freebies). They
would also know if the fact that you're using an educational version of
Office makes a difference or not.
On the other hand, if you want to try manually removing Office X, you will
find a complete guide to doing so here:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323675&Product=maco
ffx>. If you follow the instructions exactly, you should be okay.
Sorry to be of so little help.
--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP
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On 1/4/04 2:29 PM, in article
6c08ad05.04010...@posting.google.com, "Joan Erlewine"
First Repair Disk Permissions (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility). It may
be that your permissions are fubared, preventing you from deleting anything
in the Application folder.
What do you mean by "the uninstaller"? You should use "Remove Office" app
found in the Value Pack on the Office v. X CD. use the Value Pack installer
to install Remove Office on your hard disk (it appears on your desktop
usually) if you don't have it there yet.
You said earlier:
> I have the Office:mac v.X Student
> and Teacher edition, and the version I'm trying to uninstall wasn't
> from this particular CD. Is this what is causing the problem, and is
> there any way I can uninstall the corrupted Office from my Mac?
Whoa. What does this mean? You now have Student and Teacher CD but you never
installed it? Instead you have some other version (a pirated version
perhaps?) installed? Or you're still using the free Test Drive? The Remove
Office on the CD should remove the Test Drive. I don't see why it wouldn't
remove a pirated version too.
Fix permissions, and try again. Just let it remove the items pre-checked by
default. Don't add fonts. This should work.
If, for some reason it doesn't then, yes, delete the Microsoft Office X
folder, the ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/ folder, and every file
beginning "microsoft.com..." in ~/Library/Preferences/. ("~" is your OS X
user folder.) That should take care of everything, including invisible
files. Empty the trash. Install Student & Teacher. I think that's v10.1.4,
yes? Apply the 10.1.5 updater. You should be OK now.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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jo...@danerlewine.com (Joan Erlewine) wrote in message news:<6c08ad05.04010...@posting.google.com>...
No, it's not weird (well, *I* think it's weird, but it is the way Macs
work...)
The items are remaining in the trash because they are still in use by
running programs.
You need to re-start your system and THEN empty the trash to get rid of
them. This problem got worse under Unix, because applications are comprised
of multiple parts, not all of which exit when you quit the main application.
Cheers
This responds to article <6c08ad05.04010...@posting.google.com>,
from "Joan Erlewine" <jo...@danerlewine.com> on 7/1/04 9:00 AM: