
Click the File tab, click Options, and then click the Add-Ins category.In Excel, choose Tools>Templates and Add-ins. Under Manage add-ins, in the Turned on column, uncheck the box for the add-in you want to turn off.Ĭlick the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner of the Add-In you wish to remove.In Outlook, click File > Manage Add-ins.Turn an add-in off for Outlook for Windows Then click the COM add-in’s name that you want to delete in the Add-ins available box, and then click Remove.In the Manage box, click COM Add-ins, and then click Go.Open Excel, go to File >Options>Add-Ins.If you'd rather only run monthly replace 0 14 * * 3 with 0 14 1 * *, but there's no real reason to. It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts. To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist"Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist"Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. If so these commands will need running every 90 days. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist" Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist"

This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.
