Re-install Office for Mac 2011 Before you re-install • • Restart your computer using, then restart normally. • • • HOW TO REINSTALL OFFICE AND UPDATE TO SP1 • Download and run to remove Office 2011 (this will remove older versions of Office too) Optional: drag the Microsoft Office 2011 folder in Applications to trash and delete.

Important note for Office 365 subscriptions: After September 22, 2016, Office 2011 for Mac is no longer available for installation with an Office 365 subscription. This doesn't affect one-time purchases of Office for Mac 2011 such as, Office Home and Student, Office Home and Business, or Office Professional. The MS Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 edition includes all the essential MS Office software and applications like MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. Users can certainly take advantage of this Microsoft Office Application Suite edition for Mac since the package offers the best features that.

The script does not remove preferences nor your Identity. • If you want to remove all preferences, delete all the com.microsoft.plist files and the Microsoft folder in your User's Library/Preferences.

• If you want to remove your normal file, it's located in the User's Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office folder • Install Office following • Delete duplicate fonts installed by Office 2011. See for help: • Update to 14.1.0 (SP1). • Run Microsoft Autoupdater to update to most current update. Restarting between each update is IMPORTANT. • after updating to 14.1.0 SP1 All Microsoft applications including the hidden ones along with all your browsers need to be quit before running the updater. For best results I always suggest quitting all apps. Update If you have downloaded the updater from • Download updater.

• Log out of your User under the Apple in the Menu bar. • Hold down the Shift key when logging in.

This disables all login items including the hidden ones. • Select the updater and install. • RESTART If you want to use the Microsoft Autoupdater (MAU), follow these steps: • Open any Office application and select 'Check for Updates' under Help in the Menu bar. Once MAU is launched, select 'Keep in Dock' • Log out/in as described above. • Select the MAU in the Dock and download the updater. • After it downloads, quit the MAU then install.

• RESTART VERIFY FREE SPACE To check how much free space is available on your startup disk: Use Activity Monitor located in Applications/Utilities. Select the Disk Usage tab.

Compare the Space Free to the Total size. SAFE BOOT MODE Hold down the Shift key when booting your computer. You can let go of the Shift key when you see Safe Boot and a progress bar. When booting into safe boot mode it forces your computer to run various maintenance tasks. UPDATE BASE SYSTEM FILES Download and run the latest combo. Running the combo updater overwrites potentially problem-causing files. Combo updaters will install on the same version as they're applying--no need to roll back or do a clean install.

The Combo updates contain all incremental updates and will update files that could have become corrupted. REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS: Open Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities), select your hard disk volume in the left pane, click the First Aid tab, then click Repair Disk Permissions.

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