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This wikiHow will teach you how to uninstall Word on a Mac by dragging and dropping the application from Finder to your Trash. If you have the app icon as a shortcut in your Dock, you'll want to remove that icon from the Dock.
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2Move Microsoft Word in the Applications folder to Trash. You can hold Cmd as you click if you want to select more than one item.
- To do this, right-click the item in Finder and select Move to Trash from the menu.
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3Press ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+G. This keyboard shortcut will open a "Go to" prompt so you can navigate to the Library folder, which is generally a hidden folder to prevent people from accidentally deleting important files.
- Since you're uninstalling Word and any associated file with it, you can delete files from the Library without running into errors.
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4Enter "~/Library" and click Go. A window will open in the hidden Library folder for your Word preferences and information.
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5Double-click the Containers folder. Additional files will appear.
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6Delete the file called "com.microsoft.Word." You can do this by dragging the file to the Trash.
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7Empty the Trash. Press and hold the Option key while you click the Trash can to prompt a menu, then select Empty Trash.[1] Microsoft Word is now removed from your Mac.
- If you have an icon for Word on your Dock, drag the icon to the Trash to delete it.
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1. Open Finder.
2. Move Microsoft Word in the Applications folder to Trash.
3. Press Cmd + Shift + G.
4. Enter ~/Library and click Go.
5. Navigate to the "Containers" folder and move the following to Trash.
6. Navigate back a folder and move files to the trash that refer to Word in the Application Support, Caches, Preferences, Launch Daemons, and Privileged Helper Tools folders.
7. Empty the Trash.
