Office: Custom Network Installation

• Microsoft Office for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.2, 4.3
• Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, versions 4.2, 4.2.1

SUMMARY

The ability to perform custom administrative installations is currently not a feature of Microsoft Office or any of the Office applications; however, it is possible to perform custom workstation installations.

MORE INFORMATION

When you perform an administrative installation of Microsoft Office, all components (Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office Manager, and Microsoft Access) are automatically installed to the server. There is no way to prevent a component from installing.

If you run Setup from the server, however, you can specify which components to install and where they should be run from (local hard disk drive or network server). To run Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, or Microsoft Office Manager from the network server, do the following when you run Setup from the network server:

   1. In the Setup dialog box that displays the different installation
      options, click the Complete/Custom button.

   2. In the list of Office components, select the component that you want
      to run from the network server, such as Microsoft Word, and click the
      Change Directory button.

   3. Click the Use Source button.

NOTE: the information in this article applies to Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Powerpoint, only as a part of Microsoft Office, not as stand-alone, individual products.

For more information about using this procedure in Microsoft Office version 7.0, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q136078
   TITLE     : OFF7: "Invalid Folder" Error with Custom Install From
               Network