Microsoft KB Archive/179861

= OFF98: How to Remove Microsoft Office 98 from Your Computer =

Article ID: 179861

Article Last Modified on 6/12/2007

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 * Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q179861



For a Microsoft Office 2001 version of this article, see 269856.



SUMMARY
This article discusses the three different ways to remove Office 98 Macintosh Edition from your computer. Methods 1 and 2 are automatic, and Method 3 is manual.

Method 1 removes all of the components that are installed by a Microsoft product. This includes any preferences that you may have set for these products. This does not include any of the documents that you have created.

Method 2 uses the Microsoft Office Installer to remove the main Office 98 program files from your computer. The Microsoft Office Installer does not remove any of your document files, custom templates, System folder items, or Value Pack components. The files that remain on the hard disk drive are listed, so that you can remove them if you want to.

Method 3 should be used only if the installation of Office 98 is damaged to the point that neither Method 1 nor Method 2 removes any files.



Method 1: Use the Remove Office 98 Tool
You can use version 2.0 of the Remove Office 98 Tool to completely remove Office 98 from your computer.

To obtain the Remove Office 98 Tool, use your Web browser to browse to the following Microsoft Web site. Scroll through the available downloads to locate the Remove Office 98 Tool:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx

NOTE: You may have a file named Remove Office 98 on your Office 98 CD. However, due to a problem with the original version of the Remove Office 98 Utility, Microsoft recommends that you use the latest version from the Microsoft Web site.

For additional information about potential problems that may occur when you use the original version of the Remove Office 98 program, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

182936 OFF98: Remove Office 98 Utility Issue

To remove Office 98 from your computer, follow these steps:  Browse to the Microsoft Web site for the Remove Office tool, and follow the directions for downloading the file. Double-click Remove Office 98. In the Install Location list, click the name of the hard disk on which Office 98 is installed.

NOTE: If you select a network volume from the Install Location list, you receive the following error message:

The selected disk named  is a network server volume. The Installer cannot install onto network server volumes. Please select another disk.

The Remove Office 98 program cannot be used to remove Office 98 from a network server volume.

 Click Remove. You must decide whether to delete preference files and library files that may be shared with other programs. Click Keep to keep the files, or click Discard to delete the shared preference files. Click Discard when you are prompted to move the Office 98 folder to the Trash. If you click Keep, the Office 98 folder and its contents are not removed from the computer.</li> Click OK in the dialog box that indicates that you successfully removed Office.</li> Click Quit to close the Remove Office 98 tool.

All of the Office 98 program files are moved to the Trash. If you want, open the Trash to view the contents of the Trash to see whether any of your document files have been moved there.

Click Empty Trash on the Special menu to reclaim the hard disk space that is used by Office 98.</li></ol>

Method 2: Remove Office Manually
To remove Office manually from the computer, move the following files to the Trash.

NOTE: If you plan to reinstall Office, do the following before you move the Microsoft Office 98 folder to the Trash: Move to the desktop any of your personal files or files that you modified, including the Normal template.

<pre class="fixed_text">  File Name                        Folder

Microsoft Office 98             Hard Drive Internet Config Extension       System Folder:Extensions Microsoft Component Library     System Folder:Extensions Microsoft Hyperlink Library     System Folder:Extensions Microsoft OLE Automation        System Folder:Extensions Microsoft OLE Library           System Folder:Extensions Microsoft RPC Runtime Library   System Folder:Extensions Microsoft Structured Storage    System Folder:Extensions MS C++ Library (PPC)            System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder MS Configuration Lib (PPC)      System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder MS Container Lib (PPC)          System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder MS Favorites Library (PPC)      System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder MS Internet Library (PPC)       System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder MS Parser Library (PPC)         System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder MS Preferences Library (PPC)    System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder MS Variant Lib (PPC)            System Folder:Extensions:MS Library Folder StandardOLE Types (PPC)         System Folder:Extensions:Type Libraries Standard OLE Types 2            System Folder:Extensions:Type Libraries vba en olb (PowerMac)           System Folder:Extensions:Type Libraries Configuration Manager           System Folder:Control Panels Microsoft Office Manager        System Folder:Control Panels Arial                           System Folder:Fonts Arial Black                     System Folder:Fonts Impact                          System Folder:Fonts Monotype Sorts                  System Folder:Fonts MT Extra                        System Folder:Fonts Symbol                          System Folder:Fonts Times New Roman                 System Folder:Fonts Wingdings                       System Folder:Fonts Advanced Networking             System Folder:MS Preference Panels Cookies                         System Folder:MS Preference Panels File Helpers                    System Folder:MS Preference Panels General E-mail                  System Folder:MS Preference Panels Home and Search                 System Folder:MS Preference Panels Password Dialogs                System Folder:MS Preference Panels Protocol Helpers                System Folder:MS Preference Panels Proxies                         System Folder:MS Preference Panels Ratings                         System Folder:MS Preference Panels Security                        System Folder:MS Preference Panels User Passwords                  System Folder:MS Preference Panels Custom Dictionary               System Folder:Preferences Embedding Preferences           System Folder:Preferences Excel Settings (8)              System Folder:Preferences Internet Preferences            System Folder:Preferences Microsoft Office Settings (8)   System Folder:Preferences MS Office ACL (8)               System Folder:Preferences Office Registration Cache       System Folder:Preferences PowerPoint Settings (8)         System Folder:Preferences PPC Registration Database       System Folder:Preferences Word Font Menu Cache (8)        System Folder:Preferences Word Settings (8)               System Folder:Preferences NOTE: If you delete the following files, you may cause problems in some non-Office programs. For example, deleting these files may cause Microsoft Internet Explorer to display garbled text. <pre class="fixed_text">  Arabic Encodings                 System Folder:Text Encodings Central European Encodings      System Folder:Text Encodings Chinese Encodings               System Folder:Text Encodings Chinese Encodings Supplement    System Folder:Text Encodings Cyrillic Encodings              System Folder:Text Encodings Greek Encodings                 System Folder:Text Encodings Hebrew Encodings                System Folder:Text Encodings Indic Encodings                 System Folder:Text Encodings Japanese Encodings              System Folder:Text Encodings Korean Encodings                System Folder:Text Encodings Symbol Encodings                System Folder:Text Encodings Thai Encodings                  System Folder:Text Encodings Turkish Encodings               System Folder:Text Encodings Unicode Encodings               System Folder:Text Encodings Western Language Encodings      System Folder:Text Encodings

Method 3: Manually Remove Office 98
To locate all of the files that Office 98 installed, please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles.

179629 OFF98: How to Remove Selected Office Components (Part 1 of 2)

179630 OFF98: How to Remove Selected Office Components (Part 2 of 2)

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