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Microsoft Remove Office Read Me
March 2004
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CONTENTS
- System requirements
- Installing and starting Remove Office
- Known issues
- Moving files to a Rescued Office folder
- Running the Remove Office application more than once
System requirements
To run Remove Office, you must have Mac OS X version 10.2.8 or
later installed on your computer.
Installing and starting Remove Office
Important Remove Office removes files installed by Microsoft Office 98,
Office 2001, Office X, Office v. X Test Drive, Office 2004, and Office 2004
Test Drive, including Microsoft shared libraries, such as Microsoft OLE, that
might be required by other programs. If a program does not start after you use
Remove Office, try reinstalling the program to fix the problem.
To
install and start Remove Office
- Drag the Remove Office program to your hard disk. Remove
Office is located in the Additional Tools folder in the Remove Office folder on
the CD-ROM or on the network you installed Office from.
- Start Remove Office by double-clicking the program on your
hard disk, on the Office CD-ROM, or on the Getting Started screen of the Office
Setup Assistant.
Note When you run the Remove Office program, files are not removed
until you click the Remove button on the Remove Microsoft Office screen. To
remove the Test Drive, on the Results screen, click the Microsoft Office 2004
(including Test Drive) check box to select the Test Drive, and then click
Continue. In the Choose which components to remove screen, click the Remove the
Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive folder check box to remove the Test Drive, and
then click Continue.
Known issues
Moving files to a Rescued Office folder
Remove Office can rescue files that you created in Office
programs - such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint
documents and templates - by moving them to a Rescued Items folder that it
creates on your desktop. However, if your Microsoft Office folders contain
other types of documents that you want to save, you should move them elsewhere
before starting Remove Office. If you forget to do this, you can find the files
in the Trash.
Running the Remove Office application more than once
If Office v. X was installed by a user without administrator
privileges, and later another user with administrator privileges runs the
Remove Office application from the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to remove
Office v. X, the following message appears:
You do not have
permission to remove Office. Log in to the same Mac OS User account that you
used to install Office and then try again.
And then the Remove
Office application displays the message, "Remove Office has successfully
removed the Office components you specified," which is not true. To remove
Office v. X, you must delete the Microsoft Office X folder from your hard disk,
or log on as a user without administrator privileges and then run the Remove
Office application.