1 # Things You Must Understand Before Using:
3 https://github.com/goodbest/OfficeThinner/issues/7
6 Save your disk space with Office 2016 for Mac.
8 Nearly 2.9GB HDD/SDD space can be saved.
10 ![compare](fig_compare.jpg)
13 - This script is only for `Office 2016 for Mac`, tested on
14 - version `15.16 (151105)`
15 - version `15.17 (151206)`
16 - version `15.18 (160109)`
17 - version `15.25 (160817) x64`
18 - Use at your own risk.
19 - Read the code before you run.
20 - Make sure all the 5 Office Apps are in the same version.
24 sudo bash -c "curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/goodbest/OfficeThinner/master/OfficeThinner.sh | bash"
26 - As Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac is installed with `root` on `/Applications`, you have to run this script with `sudo`.
27 - The backup files are located at `~/Desktop/OfficeThinner`, you can do whatever you like with them if everything is fine.
28 - Everytime after you install Microsoft Office Updates, you may have to re-run this script.
31 Some large-sized duplicate files exist in `Word.app`, `Excel.app`, `PowerPoint.app`, `Outlook.app` and `OneNote.app` in Office 2016 for Mac.
33 It's wasting your precious HDD/SSD space as these files are just 5 duplicate copies in these apps.
35 This script moves the following duplicate files from Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote into a backup directory on your desktop (you may later delete them safely), and then soft link neccesary paths back to the real files in Word.app alone.
37 - /Contents/Resources/Fonts (<=15.16)
38 - /Contents/Resources/DFonts (>=15.17)
39 - /Contents/SharedSupport/Proofing Tools
40 - ~~/Contents/Frameworks/MicrosoftOffice.framework/Versions/A/Resources~~