Move those items to a folder outside of the Microsoft Office 2008 folder.Ģ. Look for templates, clipart and any user docs that you might want to keep and use in 2016. In Applications, go into the Microsoft Office 2008 folder. Since space is your main consideration, I'll tell you the way to free up most space, but there will be preference files still hanging around (they're very small files).ġ.
You can safely remove Office 2008 without affecting anything in 2016. The step-by-step article explaining how to get rid of every last little detail has been removed from Microsoft's web site.