Running 10.11.6 and have MS office 2004 and 2011 on my hard drive. Automator has kept its Office 2004 "link" to automator as seen by the following. How do I get Automator unlinked from 2004 and linked to 2011.
Thanks for the help
The workflows are located in: /Library/Automator
(In Finder ⬆⌘G and enter: /Library/Automator)
Find the workflow you do not want and delete it ( or better, move it to another location)
I am trying to get the actions in the Automator application to default to Office 2011. In the following screenshot you can see the Office 2004 apps are unavailable. How do I get Automator to show me the 2011 Office apps?
thanks
Looks like MS Office didn't install the Automator Actions for 2011 since you kept `04 and `11 on your system.
You could try downloading MS Office 2011 for Mac from MS: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/office and then look in the install package with Pacifist: https://www.charlessoft.com/ and look for the Automator Actions in the install package (look for files with the extension .action) and the copy them to /Library/Automator (after you move the `04 actions to another location).
Office 2004 for Mac is incompatible with OS X 10.11.6 because it was compiled for the PowerPC architecture. You should uninstall Office 2004, and 2011 according to Microsoft uninstall guidelines. Then, reinstall Office 2011 for Mac, and apply all updates. Then, you should have Office 2011 for Mac Automator actions available.
If the 2004 uninstaller is compiled, and not a script, then it won't work on El Capitan. You will have to uninstall manually.
# locate the Microsoft Office 2004 installer package name
$ pkgutil --pkgs | grep -i microsoft
# now list the file paths found in the microsoft Office 2004 package and write to text file
$ pkgutil --files com.microsoft.... > ~/Desktop/mso2004.txt
Automator and MS Office
