How to remove acrobat addin from office 2016 for MAC

[Xianwei Zhang]

Hi, I have a adobe acrobat dc pro version installed on my macbook.

And I also have a office 2016 for Mac.

The acobat addin on the word for Mac version ribbon bar is unnessceary and I want to remove it.
However, the word for Mac is not the same with the word for win so I can't find ways to remove the addin.

[try67]

Do you have an Options command under the File menu in Word?

[Xianwei Zhang]

in office for mac version, there is no "options" command.

[fredm79436896 · Accepted solution]

Very annoying that this add-in just integrates Word without asking permission for.

To remove it :

Go to Preferences and click Ribbon and Toolbar.

Select the command "Add-in" or "Complements" in the Developer tab and click the add arrow.

Close Preferences.

Click on you new option icon in the upper part of the ribbon.

Deactivate "linkCreation.dotm"

[tanmay_0704]

That worked ! Thank you.

[S. S]

Hi @tanmay_0704,

Hope you are doing well. 

Thanks for sharing what worked for you.

Please feel free to leave an upvote to the answer for the algorithms to show it on top for future users searching for a solution to a similar problem.

Regards,
Souvik.

[Xianwei Zhang]

Thanks for fredm's answer.

But I found that deactivate it will not solve the problem completely.

Once the mac restarts, the tab will reappear.

The "complete" way is delete the linkCreation.dotm.

search it in the finder and delete it.

[EJFielding]

Thanks for the hint on how to disable the Adobe PDF AddIn for Word. I am using a loaner computer where they copied over all my user information (~/Library) but not the Adobe Acrobat software. I was able to search for the "linkCreation.dotm" file and found it in

[EJFielding]

The Word AddIn files are now hidden under ~/Library/Group Support/{long random string}.Office/User Content. I had to delete both the linkCreation.dotm and the SaveAsAdobePDF.ppam file to avoid getting errors when I start Word.

[EJFielding]

I should add that I am using Office 2019 on Mojave. Your mileage (and file locations) may vary.

[RS12334]

This worked for me. Thank you.

[UTA-Douglas]

I found three files in /Library/. You need admin rights to find them. 

$ sudo find /Library -name "SaveAsAdobePDF.ppam"

$ sudo find /Library -name "SaveAsAdobePDF.xlam"

$ sudo find /Library -name "linkCreation.dotm"

You can use these commands to find the copies in ~/Library

$ find ~/Library -name "SaveAsAdobePDF.ppam"

$ find ~/Library -name "SaveAsAdobePDF.xlam"

$ find ~/Library -name "linkCreation.dotm"

One I deleted linkCreation.dotm ~/Library, I was able to lauch Word again. 

Even after that, I still found another copy in Startup.localized with the name "~$nkCreation.dotm" so I had to repeat with a wildcard to find them. 

$ ~/Library -name "*nkCreation.dotm"

[jordan.jacob]

Thank you for saving me from this annoyance. I migrated from a 2011 MacBook Pro to a 2016 MacBook Pro and wanted to clean up all the garbage except for Dropbox. First time opening Word and ran into these issues until I followed your instructions! 🤗

[Luis24896219vpfo]

Thanks god I found your comment. 

You saved me .

[Nick33552305d14v]

This worked for me. Thank you!

[Adam5E23]

Having this issue with PowerPoint. I've gone in and removed the files in the ~/Library/Group Containers/{long random string}.Office/User Content/ folder. I've ran the find command (w/ sudo) to locate any other copies of the files, both full file names and using wildcards. I can't locate any other copies of these files on my machine but i still get the message when loading up PowerPoint. Only PowerPoint. 

any one else had this issue and/or knows how to resolve it? I'm one step away from uninstalling PowerPoint and reinstalling, but I shouldn't have to do that just for removing some Adobe products from my laptop..

[Sdcvk5C65]

go to Tools menu in powerpoint and choose PowerPoint Add-ins and Uncheck / Remove the Adobe add-in.

[Adam5E23]

I had tried that already. None were listed. 

I had to end up uninstalling and then reinstalling Office entirely. Just  uninstalling and reinstalling PowerPoint alone didn't solve the issue. 

[defaultu52d2yz4487n]

I am having the same problem here. I actually needed to uninstall office and reinstall it. Only malware has the same kind of behaviour. 

[adubyaa]

While in Excel for Mac, select Tools from the Menu bar > select Excel Add-ins...

When the Add-ins window appears, uncheck any checkboxes next to the add-ins you want to deactivate such as Saveasadobepdf. Click OK to save the change; the Adobe tab will no longer be displayed on the ribbon as long as you've deactivated all Adobe add-ins.

Hi, I have a adobe acrobat dc pro version installed on my macbook.

And I also have a office 2016 for Mac.

The acobat addin on the word for Mac version ribbon bar is unnessceary and I want to remove it.
However, the word for Mac is not the same with the word for win so I can't find ways to remove the addin.

By @Xianwei Zhang