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"Hello. I want to permanently delete some very private Word, Excel documents on a Mac. However, every time I delete those documents, and empty the trash bin again and again, I still can recover them after I run a data recovery program to scan the Mac hard drive. Is there any way to permanently delete the Microsoft Office documents on a Mac?" – Milman

permanently delete Microsoft office documents on Mac

Is it possible to permanently delete Microsoft documents (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint) from a Mac, beyond the scope of data recovery? The answer is YES. In this article, we will show you an easy & secure solution to permanently delete Word, Excel PowerPoint documents from a Mac computer. Before we show you the steps to permanently delete Mac Word files, Excel documents or other Microsoft Office files, we will introduce a easy-to-use data erasure tool – DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac.

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is a powerful data erasure application for Mac. It can securely and permanently delete/erase data from Mac hard drive or storage media device. The safe data erasure method can 100% erase selected data on a Mac permanently. If you want to permanently delete Microsoft Office files on a Mac, DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is a good choice. It is safe data erase, will not affect the system or the service life or the Mac computer.

Easily and permanently delete Microsoft Office Documents on Mac

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac offers flexible tools to help you permanently delete Microsoft Office files on a Mac. This powerful data erasure tool can 100% prevent the erased Microsoft Office documents from being recovered by data recovery software. It means once the Microsoft Office documents are deleted/erased by DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac, they will be lost forever. You or anyone else can’t recover the deleted Microsoft Office documents on the Mac even with the powerful data recovery software.

Now, you can try the three tools to help you permanently delete Microsoft Office documents on a Mac with DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac.

Tool 1: permanently delete Microsoft Office documents on a Mac.

This tool "Erase Files/Folders" can help you permanently delete existing Word/Excel/PowerPoint or other Microsoft Office documents on the Mac computer. Just add or drop the targeted Microsoft Office documents to the erasure list, then click on "Erase Now" button. This tool will help you permanently delete the selected Microsoft Office documents from the Mac.

permanently delete Microsoft office documents on Mac

Tool 2: erase all Microsoft Office documents from a Mac hard drive.

This tool can help you wipe an entire hard drive. Once you select a hard drive and wipe it with this tool, all the data including all the Microsoft Office documents on the hard drive will be permanently lost. For example, if you store your Microsoft Office documents on an external hard drive, you can ease the external hard drive to permanently erase all the data on the external hard drive.

permanently delete Microsoft office documents on Mac

Tool 3: permanently erase already deleted/lost Microsoft Office documents on a Mac.

"Wipe Free Space" will help you wipe the free disk space of the Mac hard drive. All the deleted or lost data is stored on the free disk space. This tool will help you wipe the free disk space to permanently erase all deleted/lost data on the Mac, including permanently erasing the already deleted/lost Microsoft Office documents on the Mac hard drive.

permanently delete Microsoft office documents on Mac

Please note that there is no way to recover the permanently deleted Microsoft Office documents after you use DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac to delete/erase your Microsoft Office documents. So, please back up important Microsoft Office documents to another hard drive, before you erase the original Microsoft Office documents on your Mac.

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Written & Updated by Shirly Chen

Shirly Chen has been writing data recovery, data erasure articles for DoYourData over 4 years. She has been working as a professional website content writer & editor for quite a long time. She also writes articles about disk clone, Mac optimization, disk backup, etc.

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