Finally, save this Office 2021 configuration file. For this example, I’ve removed lines for Word, PowerPoint and Excel so that these apps can be installed. Then remove the ExcludeApp ID lines for the apps you want to install from Office 2021 package. Add the SourcePath location as the DVD drive to which ISO file you mounted in previous step. Now open the Office 2021 configuration file using Notepad.

Note down the DVD drive letter to which ISO file is mounted.ĥ. In case if you have physical DVD drive you got from the retailer, you can directly plug-in this as an installation media to your system DVD drive. Then right click on the Office 2021 ISO file and select Mount. Now place the Office 2021 configuration XML file on the Desktop along with the Office Deployment Tool setup.exe file.Ĥ. For convenience, this guide is shown with reference to Desktop.ģ. Note: You can select any location instead of Desktop, if you want.

How to install Office 2021 specific apps you want When you’ve above three elements, you can follow below steps to install Office 2021 specific apps you want. Office Deployment Tool you can download from official Microsoft website here.Office 2021 configuration XML file you can download from here.Office 2021/365 ISO file or DVD drive.

To customize Office 2021/365 installation, we will need following elements: By default, all apps are installed and you’ve no choice to keep only the apps you want. In this guide, you will read how to install Office 2021 specific apps you want.įollowing screenshot shows the default installation scenario for a typical Office 2021 installation. This installer does not allow us to natively select specific apps we want to install. In the newer versions of Office, such as in Office 2021 or 365, we have Click-to-Run technology based installer. This is because those versions where shipped with MSI technology that allowed to choose custom apps we want to install. With earlier versions of Office, we were able to select the specific apps we want to install. Hence in some cases, you want to install only the specific apps you’ll use. It might be possible that you may not use all of the apps that came with the standard Microsoft Office package.

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