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How do I disable a service?

I downloaded and installed the Office 2011 14.3.0 update for Mac, yesterday. Opening a MS Office application (Word, Excel) now spawns an active process (Office365Service) that does not shut down when the application is shut down. Before the update, that process was not present. So far, I have only been able to shut it down from Activity Monitor. Is there a way to disable this process from starting or to have it shut down when the application is shut down?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 31, 2013 7:12 AM

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Nov 2, 2016 10:31 PM in response to Chemin Sylvia Bernard

Hello Chemin (and the many others who are plagued with this issue).


This issue is constant (every 10 minutes), and intrusive (because it interrupts what you are presently working on, and demands a response before you can continue with your work).


I tried the recommended "fix", that was provided to you by Microsoft, with the result that each one of my MS Office applications crashed (and continued to do so, after repeated re-starts). This necessitated the removal of all MS Office applications, and then downloading and reinstalling 'fresh versions'.


Of course, I now have working MS Office apps, but also the return of the constant office365service.app gemlin. Surely, someone - either Microsoft or Apple - must have an easy solution to this issue. If they don't, then this doesn't say much about their attitude towards we poor suffering customers.


The bottom line: Why are we expected to have something blatantly and obstinately forced upon us, when we have never asked for it, do not want it, and are not subscribed to a service such as this?


Come on Apple and Microsoft, we do at least deserve an answer and, at least a solution.

Nov 9, 2016 7:20 AM in response to whogastim

Finally stumbled across a solution that works. The merpad office360 files are generated by the Microsoft Error Reporting routine, and it can be turned off by simply unchecking a field. Here's a link to the step-by-step. It's so simple, weird that I didn't run across it sooner. Been fritzing with trying to kill those files since forever.


http://www.jonseff.net/2014/07/22/tip-stop-office-for-mac-from-adding-junk-to-yo ur-trash/

How do I disable a service?

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