Clean Old Files Microsoft Office Mac

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Sometimes after uninstalling older versions of Microsoft Office some registry keys are left behind. This causes Spiceworks to think that those older versions of Office are still installed, even though the actual program files are all removed. You can follow the steps here to clean up those old registry keys so Spiceworks can get a proper inventory of the software on the machine.

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NOTE: Please make a backup of Registry before making any changes to it. You can severely damage a machine if an incorrect edit is made.

4 Steps total

Step 1: Open up RegEdit

Open up RegEdit by going to Start>Run and typing 'regedit' and pressing Enter or OK. You can also enter the 'regedit' command into a Command Prompt to open up the editor.

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Step 2: Locate the Office Registry Key

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Microsoft stores all of the installation information for Office Products in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice. Underneath this key you will see various version numbers, each corresponding to different versions of Office. They are as follows:

-9.0 is Office 2000
-10.0 is Office XP
-11.0 is Office 2003
-12.0 is Office 2007
-14.0 is Office 2010

Step 3: Locate the Corresponding Registration Key

Underneath each of the version number keys you should see a 'Registration' key. Depending on how many Office products you have installed (Visio, Project, etc. all will be stored underneath one of those version keys) on the machine there will be multiple hashed keys present underneath the Registration key. Each of these hashed keys should have a value underneath it called 'ProductName'. You can use this value to correctly determine which hashed key is related to the product you want to remove.

Step 4: Delete the Hashed Key

Once you have located the correct hashed registry key, delete it. As mentioned above, though, make sure you have a good backup before doing this!

Once you have performed the steps above run a scan on the device by either running a full network scan or a rescan underneath the Tools section of the device. Once the scan is complete you should see that the long deleted Office products are now gone from your Spiceworks Inventory. If the scan is still showing that the software is present, you might need to disable Incremental Scanning in Settings>Network Scan.

I hope this helps!

Published: Nov 15, 2011 · Last Updated: Jul 11, 2012

22 Comments

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  • Cayenne
    Marciab Nov 15, 2011 at 04:50pm

    Great How to.... Thanks for sharing

  • Ghost Chili
    Kellanved Nov 15, 2011 at 04:55pm

    Thank you so much! Finally someone narrowed down which keys to delete! I could only recommend a general registry cleaner to others having this issue.

  • Ghost Chili
    JustRob Nov 15, 2011 at 06:02pm

    Nice. Good to know exactly what to look for, when even the M$ 'fix it' doesn't get it all.

  • Datil
    Brian Steingraber Nov 15, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Office 2010 is really bad about removing these keys so this is a all too common task for me!

  • Habanero
    John6020 Nov 16, 2011 at 06:14am

    Brilliant - thanks for the information.

  • Serrano
    tech_freak Dec 15, 2011 at 02:03pm

    Good One.

  • Serrano
    pnadon Jan 24, 2012 at 05:06pm

    Thank you!!

  • Mace
    hsc5775 Apr 20, 2012 at 04:03am

    great work
    thx for share

  • Serrano
    Craig Manske Apr 24, 2012 at 07:54am

    On a 64bit machine it is under HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftOffice.

  • Datil
    Paolo0111 May 17, 2012 at 05:26am

    Thank you very much, James B!

  • Datil
    spike7 Aug 27, 2012 at 10:49pm

    Nice.. thank you!

  • Mace
    Gabrielle.L Sep 20, 2012 at 01:31pm

    Thank you for this! I've started doing Office upgrades on our workstation, and it was driving me crazy that my Spiceworks inventory showed multiple versions installed on a machine when there clearly was not.

  • Jalapeno
    Dvir IT Nov 4, 2012 at 03:56pm

    It didn't do it for me a first. Until now...
    Solved!

    1. Disable Incremental Scanning in Settings>Network Scan. – Super Important!!!
    2. Use Microsoft fixit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9669698
    3. Scan Device.
    Thanx a lot!
    Dvir

  • Pure Capsaicin
    Justin.Davison Nov 14, 2012 at 05:04pm

    Nice one, just saw this and it is a good guide for a common issue people have.

  • Datil
    Angus S-F Feb 28, 2013 at 04:38pm

    Nirsoft has a free tool to retrieve the Office keys from your domain: Produkey. It has a command-line option to '...enumerate all computers in the specified domain, and load the product key information from them.'

    Get it here:
    ProduKey - Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office/SQL Server
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

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