Article ID: 179861
Article Last Modified on 6/12/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh
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.
MORE INFORMATION
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:
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: - 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.
- Click OK in the dialog box that indicates that you successfully removed Office.
- 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.
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.
File Name Folder
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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.
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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