Check Programs and Features in Control Panel for earlier versions of Office on your PC. If you find an earlier version, click Uninstall.

Note: Before you uninstall an earlier version of Office, you may want to find the product key and installation media that came with it in case you’d like to reinstall it at a later point.

If there are problems uninstalling the earlier version of Office, use the appropriate Fix it in this article article to remove Office from the PC.