How to uninstall MS Office tryout?

So I just bought an iMac. Cool. After 25 years of using PCs.
Now.. how do I remove the pre-instaleld MS Office tryout? It has an option "remove office", but when I click that it says there is no office installed. So what do I do? Just drag that application to the bin? Other?

Mr.Lobotomy wrote:
Yep. Drag it to the Trash. That's how most Mac OS apps are uninstalled.
Correct. If you never installed it there is no uninstall, so just drag what's there to the trashbin.
Had you installed it, then the uninstall would have done something.

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[Cannot Uninstall Office 2007 Beta from XP or Vista|http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1838/cannot_uninstall_office_2007_beta_xp_vista]
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When it won't allow me. I get the same popup window message. "You can't open the app...beacause PowerPC apps are no longer supported."
Can anyone help or offer advice please.
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vickynsimon wrote:
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kind regards
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[click on image to enlarge]
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Hi,
I'm deploying an uninstallation package to uninstall Office 2013 using the ingenious Microsoft Fix it (located here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2739501/en-us)
called O15CTRRemove.
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