Microsoft Office Mac Reinstall Troubleshooting

Steps that might help reinstall

Reinstalling MS Office on Mac

  1. Clear login identity
  2. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/uninstall-office-for-mac-eefa1199-5b58-43af-8a3d-b73dc1a8cae3
  3. clear keychain of all MS/Office/Windows stuff


Uninstalling Microsoft Office

  1. Go to "Finder" > "Applications", find the Microsoft Office applications to remove and right click.
    1. Select "Move to Trash".
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  2. Go to the Trash and empty it.

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  3. Open up the terminal program on your mac.  You can search and find the "terminal" by clicking on the magnifying glass on the top right of your screen.
  4. Then copy and paste, then run these commands in Terminal to completely remove all Microsoft Office files:
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.* 
rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.* 
  
rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.* 
  
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.* 
rm -rf ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.*