HT201250 How do I copy over my Microsoft Office, aren't there other folders in the Library? Or is a new one created?

Question

I don't have a functional disk drive on my laptop, but I have the program backed up in Time Machine.
I know there were some folders created elsewhere (library, I think) & I just want to make sure that I am not going to mess it up if I just select Microsoft Office from my Time Machine backup.

Answer 1

They're pretty much all over the place. I can only list for Office 2011.
These are all folders. Just grab them and everything within.
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/
~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/
These are preferences files in your user account not in a subfolder. You may not have all of these.
com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist
com.microsoft.desktop.updater.plist
com.microsoft.DocumentConnection.plist
com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist
com.microsoft.Excel.plist
com.microsoft.helpviewer.plist
com.microsoft.myday.plist
com.microsoft.office.plist
com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist
com.microsoft.OfficeNotifications.plist
com.microsoft.outlook.database_daemon.plist
com.microsoft.outlook.database_utility.plist
com.microsoft.outlook.office_reminders.plist
com.microsoft.Outlook.plist
com.microsoft.Outlook.SyncServicesPreferences.plist
com.microsoft.Powerpoint.plist
com.microsoft.removeoffice.plist
com.microsoft.setupassistant.plist
com.microsoft.visual_basic.plist
com.microsoft.Word.plist
But I do have to ask. Since Office is all you want back from Time Machine, why not just reinstall from the original Office disk? It would be WAY easier. Especially since I can't guarantee this list is everything. The only thing you'd have to retrieve from TM then would be the stuff in the Documents folder.