Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is Microsoft’s word processing application used to create, edit, review, and share documents on your Mac.
What is Microsoft Word?
Microsoft Word is the document editor included with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office for Mac. People use it to write reports, letters, resumes, forms, and other text-based documents, often with formatting, comments, track changes, templates, and cloud saving through Microsoft services such as OneDrive or SharePoint.
Safety overview
Status: Safe
Word is a legitimate Microsoft application. The main risk is accidental loss of documents, templates, AutoRecovery data, or local settings if related files are removed without checking what they contain.
Recommendation: Keep if you use Microsoft Office or open .doc/.docx documents. Remove only if you no longer need Word and have confirmed any important local documents, templates, and recovery files are backed up.
Common paths
/Applications/Microsoft Word.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.Word
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office~/Library/Application Support/com.microsoft.Word
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office
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