[Hard] How to customize Office 16 installation?

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Microsoft had released the latest Microsoft Office edition: Office 16 on 22 September 2015! But the offline installation had changed. It no longer gives user to choose what component to install. This method of installation is called Click-To-Run, or C2R. Since the release of Office 10, Microsoft already use this kind of installation method to 'ease' user setup procedures, while also causing user frustration. Installing everything into computer is very space consuming too.

EDIT : Microsoft had released a non-C2R version of Office 16 installer. You can download non-C2R version here. (Torrent)

Things Required 
- Office 2016 Deployment Tool [Important]

- Office 2013 Click-To-Run Removal Tool [Use this before you install Office 16]
- Time: ~2 hours (Depends on how many app you want and your Internet connection speed.)
- A working Office 2016 serial key (To activate the Office 16)

A. Remove older version of Office

1. Launch the O15C2RRemove.diagcab to start the uninstalling.

If found anything, click Next to remove the older Office files. You should see it starts to Uninstall. Restart your computer when done.

B. Start Office 2016 Deployment Tool

1. Download the OfficeDeploymentTool.exe. 

2. Double click the tool, read and accept the Licence Term. Click Continue and select a location to extract the files.

C. Configure before running Office 2016 Deployment Tool

1. After you extract the tool, you will find 2 files in the folder, which is configuration.xml and setup.exe.

2. Right click the configuration.xml file and select Edit. Take a look at the content.

3. This is my preset to install ONLY Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Copy and replace the whole text with this. Don't save first, you are NOT ready to go with these settings.

<Configuration>

<Add SourcePath="E:\Office\" OfficeClientEdition="64" >

<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">

<Language ID="en-us" />

<ExcludeApp ID="Access" />

<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />

<ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />

<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />

<ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />

<ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />

<ExcludeApp ID="Project" />

<ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />

<ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner" />

<ExcludeApp ID="Visio" />

</Product>

</Add>

</Configuration>

4. Now, notice the BOLD words, you can change them. Below are the explanation for them.

(i) Add SourcePath="E:\Office\"

This set the location for the Office 2016 Deployment Tool office files download location, NOT installation location (You can't choose this no matter how.)

Recommended: Set it to your Download folder or external hard disk.

(ii) OfficeClientEdition="64"

Choose the Office version. 32 for 32 bit Office version and 64 for 64 bit Office version.

Recommended: Check your system type and choose the same version.

(iii) Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail"

This define the Office type you want to download.

Recommended: Leave it the same as my preset.

Available Options: ProPlusRetail, ProfessionalRetail, HomeStudentRetail, HomeBusinessRetail, O365ProPlusRetail, O365HomePremRetail, O365BusinessRetail, O365SmallBusPremRetail, VisioProRetail, ProjectProRetail, SPDRetail

(iv) Language ID="en-us"

This define the Office language. There are a lot of language ID but en-us, zh-cn and ja-jp are the common ones.

Recommended: Choose en-us if you need English only, zh-cn for Chinese and ja-jp if you are Japanese! More languages available in Available Options.

Available Options: Go to this website. The language ID you want is in the LCID String column. If no option available for you, use the ID in the Language code column instead.

(v) ExcludeApp ID="Access" ... ExcludeApp ID="Visio"

This EXCLUDE the app you don't want to install. If you want to exclude more, you can insert ExcludeApp ID="YOUR APP CODE" and replace YOUR APP CODE with the app you don't want to install.

Recommended: Refer to the Available Options to choose the app you don't need. If you want Word, Excel and PowerPoint only, leave it alone.

Available Options: (Self-Explanatory) Access, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, Lync, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, SharePointDesigner, Visio, Word

5. After checking that all your settings are correct, you can save now.

D. Download the apps you need

1. Inside the folder where you store the extracted files, hold Shift key and right-click on blank spaces. Click on Open command window here

2. Type this command into command prompt : setup.exe /download configuration.xml and press Enter.

3. If you are following the instruction correctly, you should see an Office folder at the download location you had set previously. It will download all the required files from Microsoft.

4. To check if the download had finished, click on the command prompt. If it is done you should see second line of the directory.

E. Install Office 16

Finally, use the command prompt and type in this command : setup.exe /configure configuration.xml and press Enter.

It should take some time and eventually your Office 16 apps will appear in your desktop!

Credit

This tutorial was referred from this Facebook post and this askvg.com tutorial.