Windows 10: Uninstalled Office 2016, but Office files still exist in the Program Files>WindowsApps folder

I am installing a newer version of Office on my Windows 11 PC. I ran the uninstall app and also used the MS Recovery Assistant tool to remove Office 2016. I ran the tool after running the uninstall app and the tool still found leftover Office files and removed them. However, looking at the Program Files>WindowsApps folder I am still seeing Office folders such as this: Microsoft.Office.Desktop.Access_16051.17425.20176.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe. The same folders exist for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook, and Microsoft.Office.Desktop. Combined there is a Gig of data in these folde

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Office 2016 programs are not grouped under Microsoft Office 2016

Hi,

To address your concern, you can compress the view of your Microsoft Office programs inside a single folder in the Start Menu. To do this, follow the steps below:

• Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs.
• Right-click on a blank space, click New > Folder.
• Rename the New Folder as Microsoft Office 2016 (or any name that you want).
• Highlight all the Microsoft Office 2016 programs.
• On your keyboard, press Ctrl + X (make sure that all programs are highlighted).
• Double-click Microsoft Office 2016 folder (the folder that you've created).
• On your keyboard, press Ctrl + V.
• Wait until all the programs are moved to the new folder.
• Check the Start Menu if the settings are saved.

Let us know the outcome after you perform steps above for us to assist you further.

 

Uninstalling MS Office 2016

While doing a manual uninstall of MS Office 2016, one of the steps talks about a folder "MSOCache" being in the root folder of my hard drive. I did not see such a folder on my hard drive. Should the folder be there if OFFICE were still installed/buried
somewhere in the Program folders on Drive C:\ ? And what is the purpose/contents of MSOCache ?

 

Office 2016 programs are not grouped under Microsoft Office 2016

> All the programs in office are listed alphabetically instead of Microsoft Office

> 2016 plus only being shown and the drop down from that listing all the

> programs such as outlook, word, access , etc

Yea, I think that happened for me, too, but I just created a new Start menu folder and dragged the shortcuts to it.