![]() I used to love Word in its pre-2010 incarnations: I wrote VB macros, used automated fields and generally knew my way round it well enough. ![]() Not to worry, I spend as little time in it as possible.) ![]() (And before anyone says “don’t use Word,” I need it to survive in academia. How there could still be 30k+ files “inside” an uninstalled app is anyone’s guess!Īt least, in the end, my login started working again. ![]() Note that I uninstalled Word yesterday and had cleared the trash and rebooted many times since. See above for some entertaining screenshots. In addition to uninstalling the apps (which I did via CleanMyMac), I also had to follow the official steps here and the unofficial steps here, which involved looking through the hidden directories of macOS to delete 25 or so application support/preferences/metadata folders across both my macOS user library and the system library. 10+ reboots and many “Empty trash” actions later, I reinstalled Office, logged in with my university address, and voila. I basically gave my Mac an enema to get rid of all the Office cruft. The basic version of that didn’t work: it seemed that my credentials got cached away somehow, so I needed to completely uninstall Office. A little story: I had a licensing issue (Word stopped recognizing my university login), so I had to uninstall and reinstall Microsoft Office.
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