seavixen has provided yet another way to successfully uninstall Office Starter. To quote from the lnk to the Microsoft article in my earlier post,

We recommend that you follow the provided methods in this article in order. However, if you have previously tried one of the methods to remove Office and it has failed, you can jump to another method quickly from this list
I'd start with control panel and if that doesn't work for some reason move on to the Microsoft Fixit option, etc.