You can uninstall or remove certain Office programs or applications individually that you do not use quite often. If you have an Office 365 subscription plan, you can access some of the best premium versions of Office applications across all your devices, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Other apps like Access rarely serve any purpose for an individual user since it manages the database management system, which is more suited for Business users.
You can completely uninstall Microsoft Office or you can uninstall individual Office apps, If you do mind removing such unwanted apps, here’s a procedure to get rid of them.
Remove individual Office 365 apps
The Office Home and Office Personal plan include applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and Access apps. To remove individual Office apps, you’ll need to follow these steps.
- Check if you have installed Office from the Microsoft Store
- Remove unwanted Apps
Recent versions of Microsoft Office do not allow users to uninstall individual apps, but Office installed from the Microsoft Store allows you to do so.
1] Check if you have installed Office from Microsoft Store
If you have downloaded and installed Office apps or components from the Microsoft Store, then it is possible to uninstall individual Office apps. A plus point here is that the uninstallation process does not affect other installed apps in any way.
For instance, you can uninstall Office Publisher without affecting other Office apps.
Read: How or Reset or Repair Individual Office apps in Windows.
2] Remove unwanted Apps
To begin, open the ‘Settings’ app. Navigate to Apps section and select ‘Apps & features’.
Next, locate for ‘Microsoft Office Desktop Apps’ entry and then click on the same to make ‘Advanced options’ link visible.
On the next page, which opens, you will see all the Office apps listed. If the entry is visible, scroll down the page to see all Office apps. Choose any app. Instantly, the action should bring up an Uninstall button. Go ahead and click the Uninstall button if you no longer need the selected app.
If you do not find ‘Microsoft Office Desktop Apps’ entry visible under ‘Apps & Features’, it’s likely that you have installed Office from outside the Store. As such, you will not be able to uninstall apps.
That’s it!
TIP: You can remove or Uninstall Microsoft Office or Office 365 using this tool from Microsoft.
