I recently purchased a Dell XPS 8900 with Windows 10 installed. The package I bought included a 30-day trial of Microsoft Office. At the same time, I purchased a copy of Microsoft Office 365 Personal (annual subscription).
As part of the setup process, I downloaded and installed Microsoft Office 365 Personal, which includes Access 2016, Excel 2016, OneNote 2016, Outlook 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Publisher 2016, and Word 2016.
Silly me, I expected that installing an official, paid-for version of Office would uninstall anything that came with the 30-day trial version of Office, but there are pieces left over and I'm not sure what I can safely do with them (safe as in, it won't mess up the installation of the Office products I purchased):
There's a "Get Office" icon in the Start menu and a "Get Office" entry in the Apps & Features section of the System control panel.
Is it safe to simply uninstall this?
There seem to be two copies of OneNote installed. The first, named OneNote 2016, appears to be the one I purchased. Its icon in the Start menu has a light blue background like the other "official" Office components. The icon in the Start menu for the other copy is named simply OneNote and has a purple background. There's also an icon with the same purple background in the Notification Tray. When I hover over that icon, it says "New quick note". This second copy of OneNote, the one with the purple background, is listed in the Apps & Features list but not in the Programs & Features control panel.
Is it safe to uninstall the second instance of OneNote (the one with the purple-background icon)? If so, how do I manage it? When I click on the entry for OneNote in the Apps & Features section (which indicates a size of 272KB, which doesn't sound like any sort of real app), the Uninstall option is grayed out. And there's no entry for OneNote in the Programs & Features control panel (the only Office-related entry in that list is "Microsoft Office 365 - en-us").
To summarize my questions:
1. Can I uninstall the "Get Office" app in Apps & Features?
2. Can I uninstall that second copy of OneNote, and, if so, how?
As usual, Microsoft has managed to confuse me and clutter my desktop. Any help would be appreciated.
Larry