In all versions of Office - and stand-alone versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - the database stores contacts and Scrapbook clips. You can use the Microsoft Database Utility to rebuild the Office database, create a new identity, or set the default identity. For instructions about how to create an alias, see Mac OS Help.Īn installation of Office includes the Microsoft Database Utility, which is located in the /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office folder. Otherwise, Office will be unable to find your user data. However, if you do this, you must put an alias to the folder in the folder's original location. You can move the folder for an identity, or the whole Microsoft User Data folder, to a different location, such as another hard disk attached to your computer or to a network. The Microsoft User Data folder contains an Office 2011 Identities folder that stores the Office database for each identity in its own folder. The first time that you use Office, a folder named Microsoft User Data is created in the Documents folder provided by the Mac OS.
