Can I install individual Office applications? - “Official”

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I heard some rumors that Office (2016) for Mac will support non-VBA based add-ins. Is this true and what type of add-ins (e.g. Web-based or C# based) are going to be supported in Office (2016) for Mac? Existing Office 2016 for Mac customers will be seamlessly upgraded to 64-bit versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote as part of the August product release (version 15.25). Remove Office 2016 for Mac. Anyone know how to do this. Do I need to simply drag each application to the trash and empty or is there an uninstall utility I am missing. If however Office 2016 for Mac crashes all the time and you’ve simply had enough of Microsoft products, here we show you how to completely uninstall Office 2016 for Mac. We hope these tips have helped you stop Outlook 2016 and Word 2016 from crashing on your Mac.

Business editions there is a tool that the administrator can use to create custom install. Now, with the problems trying to mix Office 365/2016 and 2013 Visio/Project (can't be done) some people have found that anyone can create a custom 365 install as long as they can find the appropriate CTR full installation file set.

Overview of Click-to-Run customization - Deployment

Customize Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) Setup to Install Selected Programs Only (2013 / 2016) askvg.

This tool is intended for Business Office Administrators.Apparently it may also be used for consumer Office bundles. (I have not tried it myself, rohn 007)

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After much trial and error, I got it to work for me.

First I had to run the Office scrub vbs file (available from Fix It here: https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-us/article/Fix-Office-365-Office-2016-or-Office-2013-install-errors-54554bb8-aa94-43c7-a685-408dd9868c0b) to remove all traces of any Office installs on my computer (I'm running Win10x64 Pro & Ent).

Reboot
1. I opened the ISO from MSDN and extracted that to D:ArchiveOffice2016 which created subdirectories off of that of Officedata
-- Note that if you don't have the iso yet, you can can ask setup to download the required files, just skip ahead to step 3 below---
2. rename D:ArchiveOffice2016setup.exe to whatever the heck you like.
3. I downloaded the Office 2016 Deployment Tool (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117) and extracted the zip to D:ArchiveOffice2016. This will place setup.exe and configuration.xml into that directory (this is why we renamed setup.exe above). I edited the XML file and put the following in it (deleting everything else that was in it):
<Configuration>
<Add SourcePath='D:ArchiveOffice2016' OfficeClientEdition='64' >
<Product>
<Language />
<ExcludeApp />
<ExcludeApp />
<ExcludeApp />
<ExcludeApp />
<ExcludeApp />
</Product>
</Add>
<Logging Name='OfficeSetup.txt' Path='%temp%' />
</Configuration>
***NOTE that I wasn't sure about the naming convention for Skype for Business/Lync so I put them both in the config file - I still don't know which one is needed but the above config successfully did NOT install Skype for Business***
4. If you don't have the ISO then run the following:
D:ArchiveOffice2016setup.exe /download configuration.xml
that will create the sub directories and download the files necessary for your desired configuration
5. Now, whether this is from the ISO or the downloaded files, run:
D:ArchiveOffice2016setup.exe /configure configuration.xml
bingo, bango, bongo, you've got a customized install.

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General descriptive guide to deploying Office. Link to various other resources like “Getting Started” and “Quick Start” guides.

Click-to-Run Customization and Deployment Deep Dive Part 1 - Office Deployment Tool for business users

Discusses Office Deployment Tool for business users

Application Installations with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2102 Update 1

Depending on the software or services you have in place, many organizations want to disable certain components of the Office suite. The common ones I hear are Access and InfoPath, sometimes the Exchange team in a company controls the version of Outlook on the desktop, an in-place communications system might make it difficult to use Lync, etc. In the traditional Office MSI packages, you could use the Office Customization Tool or a configuration file to control which apps your users received and now using thenew Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run (download page) and May 2014 or newer builds of Office, you can do this now as well.

After downloading the Office Deployment Tool, you can edit the default configuration.xml file to exclude the apps you don’t want using the “ExcludeApp ID” control as shown below. The naming conventions tend to follow the executable names closely or are slightly abbreviated in the case of names like MSACCESS vs. Access

<configuration>

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<Add SourcePath=”c:odt” OfficeClientEdition=”32”>

< Product ID=”0365ProPlusRetail”>

<Language ID=”en-us” />

<ExcludeApp ID=”Access”/>

<ExcludeApp ID=”InfoPath”/>

<ExcludeApp ID=”Groove”/>

< Product >

</Add>

<Display Level=”None” AcceptEULA=”True” />

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</Configuration>

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If you install an Office Click-to-Run build using the configuration.xml example above, it will install the entire suite minus Access, InfoPath and OneDrive for Business. You could use similar configuration files to install as few as one Office application as well. If you’re wondering if the Office Deployment Tool will work to install other Office products in addition to Office 365 ProPlus, yes it works for all Click-to-Run versions of Office. The MSI versions are only available for Volume License versions of Office Professional Plus 2013 and Office Standard 2013, every other Office 2013 version uses Click-to-Run.