How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2007 suites

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How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2007 suites

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Summary
This article provides methods that you can follow to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2007 suites.

Do you want to uninstall a different version of Microsoft Office?

To view information on how to remove or uninstall another version of Microsoft Office, click the link that matches your Office version: How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2010 suites (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/) How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2003 suites (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639197/) How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768/) How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500821/)

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We recommend that you follow the provided methods in this article in order. However, if you have previously tried one of the methods to remove Office and it has failed, you can jump to another method quickly from this list: Method 1: Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 suites from Control Panel Method 2: Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 suites with Microsoft Fix it Method 3: Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 suites with the Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter Method 4: Remove Microsoft Office 2007 suites manually

Method 1: Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 suites from Control Panel Method 2: Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 suites with Microsoft Fix it Method 3: Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 suites with the Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter Method 4: Remove Microsoft Office 2007 suites manually
Note You must be logged on to Windows with a user account that is a computer administrator to complete this method. If this is your personal computer, you are likely already logged on with an administrator account. If this is a computer that is part of a network, you might have to ask the system administrator for help. To verify that you are logged on to Windows with a user account that is a computer administrator, visit the following Microsoft knowledge base article: How to determine your user account type in Windows (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2663817/)

IMPORTANT - Information that you need to know before you remove Office 2007: To use the View or Tools menu in Windows 7 or Vista, you must press the ALT key first to display the menu bar. You will need to view hidden files and folders. To do this, follow these steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Open Windows Explorer. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options. In Windows 7 or Vista, press the ALT key to display the menu bar. Click the View tab. In the Advanced settings pane, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders. Clear Hide extensions for known file types. Click OK, and then close the windows.

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Click Start. Click All Programs, and then open the Accessories folder (skip this step in Windows XP). Click Run, and then click in the Open box. Type %appdata%\microsoft\document building blocks, and then click OK. Open the subfolder found in the Document Building Blocks folder. Note The subfolder title will be a four-digit number that represent the language of the Microsoft Office suite. Delete the building blocks.dotx file. Close all programs before you follow the rest of the steps. Click Start. Click All Programs, and then open the Accessories folder (skip this step in Windows XP). Click Run, and then click in the Open box. Type %temp%, and then click OK. On the Edit menu, click Select All. On the File menu, click Delete. Click Start. Click All Programs, and then open the Accessories folder (skip this step in Windows XP). Click Run, and then click in the Open box. Type %AllUsersprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Data, and then click OK. Delete the opa12.dat file (and ONLY this file).

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Step 5: Remove the registry subkeys of the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\*F01FEC HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\*F01FEC HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\UpgradeCodes\*F01FEC HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Win32Asemblies\*Office12* Continue with these registry subkeys: 1. Locate the following registry subkey: 32-bit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall 64-bit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall 2. On the File menu, click Export, type UninstallKey01 , and then click Save. 3. Under the Uninstall subkey that you located in step 1, click each subkey, and then determine whether the subkey has the following value assigned to it: Name: UninstallString Data: file_name path\Office Setup Controller\Setup.exe path Note In this example, file_name is a placeholder for the name of an installation program, and path is a placeholder for the file path. 4. If the subkey contains the name and the data that are described in step 3, click Delete on the Edit menu. Otherwise, go to step 5. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you locate and then delete every subkey that matches the name and the data that are described in step 3. 6. Close Registry Editor. Step 6: Restart the computer. Restart the computer. If the removal was successful, you are finished and can now reinstall Microsoft Office if you want. If the removal was not successful, go to the "References" section in this article.

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Article ID: 928218 - Last Review: January 24, 2013 - Revision: 24.0 Applies to
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 Office Ultimate 2007 Office Enterprise 2007 Office Professional 2007 Office Standard 2007 Office Home and Student 2007 Office Basic 2007

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