Custom installation of Microsoft Office 365

I have long wanted to know how to install only the Office apps I need, and the method I will describe below will help you to custom install Office 365. As it is known, when the installation of Office 365 finishes, many unnecessary Office suite programs appear on our system and take up more space on our disk, I only install Word and Excel, so I do not need the others.: Outlook, OneNote, Sway, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Project, Visio etc, etc.

So let's get started, what is needed?:

A good internet connection, and
An educational account

Ok. In Windows 10 I'm going to show you how to install Word and Excel (opens the image in a new tab to see it clearly), I don't need anything else, but if you want PowerPoint, OneNote or any other, it's easy, just follow the steps:

Download Office Deployment Tool.
Go to the download folder and open the downloaded file, accept the terms, create a new folder with the name of your choice in your preferred location and click OK.

At the end, the files necessary for the download/installation of Office 365 are located in the newly created folder.

3. Now, go to Office Customization Tool. On this page I am going to create my Office customization file, which I will use along with the setup.exe file located in the new folder from the previous step. Scroll to the bottom of the page where the following options are located and click on the Create button:

On the left, the option 'Create a new configuration' is the one I am going to choose to start the customization. On the right an option to import our configuration file, useful to modify some settings made.

4. On the next page we start to create our custom configuration. In the 'Products and versions' section I select the options you see in the image. If your system is 32bits only choose 32bits.

You can see that in Applications I leave Word and Excel activated, if you need another application just activate it.

5. In the section Languages we choose the language in which Office will be shown.

Important note: If you choose the first option 'Match operating system', two Offices may appear in your uninstall software, this is due to the languages that are in the Windows settings and that handle the keyboard, voice etc. Windows Settings>Time and language>Language

6. In the Installation section I leave the options as they are..

7. In the Update section I also leave the options as they are. I don't have MSI versions previously installed, so I don't mind leaving the options as they are.

8. In Licensing and activation, I only activate 'Accept license terms automatically', the other options are left as they are.

9. In the General section it is left unchanged, it is only for companies..

10. Finally, the 'Application preferences' section is left as it is. From here, if you want, you can make some changes to the apps before installation.

11. Each of the settings made can be seen on the right, we check that everything we did is ok and export the customized configuration.

12. Now we select the file format in which to save the customized configuration, I always choose the first option, then I accept the terms and export the file. The browser will block the download of the file, so choose Keep to download it without any problem.

You can change here the name of the configuration file, and allow the browser to download the file, it is safe.

13. Now go to the Downloads folder, locate the Configuration file in xml format and move it to the folder created in step 2.

The three configuration-Office files inside the new folder can be deleted without any problem, they are just example files.

14. Now open a command prompt window from the location of the xml file, the quickest way is to type cmd in the address bar, and enter the following command for the Office 365 installation, replace installconfig with the name you chose for the file in step 12.

setup.exe /configure installconfig.xml

And click on Enter. An Office icon will appear in the taskbar where you can see the download percentage. It's important that you don't close the command prompt window until the Office 365 installation is complete.

You can see at the end that only Word and Office are the only two programs that will be installed.

That's all. In my case only Word and Excel appear in the list of programs. The last thing you have to do is to log in with your educational account after opening the program you are going to work with, be it Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.

More information about the Office Deployment Tool at Overview of the Office Deployment Tool - Deploy Office | Microsoft Docs

Custom installation of Microsoft Office 365

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