Take the 2-minute tour ×  My Windows 7 system came with "trial"
versions of Office (2007) installed. I removed them (with
add/remove programs). However, whenever I run Windows Update it
still shows updates needed for those Office products. Why? What
do I do to stop this?  share|improve this question add comment
migrated from serverfault.com Jan 13 '11 at 1:04   3 Answers  My
guess is, you need to get MS Office (any version), and install
it. [I'm assuming you're using OpenOffice. Or something else? If
you're already using MSOffice, which version of MSOffice?]  You
can ignore the errors by "hiding the updates".  You can do this
by right-clicking the update, and then clicking "Hide Update".
share|improve this answer As you guessed, I'm using OpenOffice;
OO is more than adequate for my needs, so I don't want to get
MS-Office, so installing it is an undesirable (and expensive,
IMO) solution. I had already considered hiding the updates, but
figured that future Office updates would just have to be hidden
also, and