Before installing Office 2011 for Mac, find hard drive errors by using your Mac’s Disk Utility program. The Disk Utility can detect errors in system file permissions and verify the file structure. Using the Apple Disk Utility may sound rather technical, but it’s actually quite easy.

If you have a good disk maintenance and repair utility (such as Alsoft DiskWarrior, TechTools Pro, Drive Genius, or a similar program), be sure to use it on your startup volume and other drives before installing a big product such as Microsoft Office. At a minimum, make sure your startup disk verifies as OK with Apple’s Disk Utility program.

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Here’s how to check your hard drive with Disk Utility:

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1. In Finder, choose Applications→Utilities→Disk Utility Application.

2. In the panel on the left side, select your startup disk.

   Your startup disk is the one at the top of the list of volumes. Select either the first or second item in the list.

3. On the First Aid tab, click the Verify Disk button.

   Progress update messages and a progress bar appear. The bigger your hard drive is and the more files you have, the longer Disk Utility will take.

4. When the process is complete, quit the Disk Utility application.

The message you hope to see when Disk Utility is finished is green and says, “The volume [name] appears to be OK.” Most likely you will get this go-ahead, and you can proceed directly to installing Office and skip the next steps.

If the Disk Utility indicates that your disk needs to be repaired, the Repair Disk button will remain grayed out, and you need to take additional actions.

You can find additional instructions by doing the following:

1. In Disk Utility, choose Help→Disk Utility Help.

   The Disk Utility Help window displays.

2. Choose Repairing a Disk.

   Follow instructions for repairing your disk(s).

Sometimes Disk Utility can’t repair a disk. If that happens to you, don’t despair. Instead, try using another disk repair utility, such as Alsoft DiskWarrior, TechTools Pro, Drive Genius, or similar programs. They can find and repair more problems than Disk Utility can.

Don’t install Office until Disk Utility or another reliable maintenance and repair utility tells you that your startup disk appears to be okay. If your startup disk isn’t okay, Office may not run properly.

Q: 'Can I save the Microsoft Office installation to an external hard drive and run the application from it? I have a laptop with a solid state drive of 30GB memory. Microsoft Office has installed on the system, taking considerable disk space. I am wondering if it could be uninstalled from the laptop and installed on an external hard drive.'

Assuming that there are two situations in which users would request an Office copy, move or transfer to a portable drive, one is when to choose an external drive for download and install, and the other one is to change the location of an existing installation from a PC to an external drive.

Are both scenarios working in the same way? Not necessarily.

A: 'When you install software it will create registry items within the Windows folders, which are on the main drive, usually the C drive. So, if you want to be able to run Office on different computers via the external hard drive, it may fail due to the lack of essential registry contents, unless using a professional PC transfer software for help.'

'What's more, Microsoft would have to provide a portable version, which we don't think they have.'

How to Transfer Microsoft Office to an External Hard Drive or a USB Drive

So, if you wish to save disk space by installing the large-size Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and Office 365, to somewhere else other than the local drive, and be able to run an application from an external drive, make it happen in the other way.

• Use the normal way to completely download and install the desired Office version on your computer.
• Transfer the whole installation from the PC storage to the wanted place via EaseUS Todo PCTrans.
• Uninstall the Office from your computer in the control panel > programs > uninstall a program.
• In the end, open and run the Office application whenever you need by connecting the external drive to your computer.

Here is how to start the Office transfer from a PC to an external hard drive/USB drive:

First, download and install EaseUS Todo PCTrans. (Click the download button on your PC, where the Microsoft Office is installed. EaseUS transfer software is very light and small. You can quickly install it in a few seconds.)

Then, move your MS Office to the external storage device:

Step 1. Connect the external device and select the transfer mode.

• Connect your external storage device (external hard drive, USB, SD card, and more) to your PC.
• Launch EaseUS Todo PCTrans and go to 'App Migration' > 'Start'.

Step 2. Select Microsoft Office and set the storage path.

• Select the drive where you have installed Microsoft Office on and select Microsoft Office.
• Click 'Browse' and choose to transfer the application to your external storage device.
• Click 'Transfer' to start transferring Microsoft Office to an external storage medium.

Step 3. Wait for the transfer process to finish.

• Wait patiently for the process to complete.
• Click 'OK' when it has done.

Additional help for you to manage the Microsoft installation location:

Anyway, don't take the Office transfer too easy to copy the download files to a portable drive. It doesn't work because you cannot move the registry components.

EaseUS Todo PCTrans can do more in transferring applications, files and folders, and even user accounts between multiple computers using the network connection and an image file. Click for more tutorials if you're interested in other possible ways to place the Office to anywhere you want.