How to Add/Remove a Single Office for Mac Program or Component

ID: Q124809

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SUMMARY

Once Microsoft Office has been installed, you can use the Setup program to reinstall your original Office configuration or to add or remove (install or uninstall) a single program or part of a program.

For more information about a similar procedure for Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q179216 OFF98: How to Use the Microsoft Office Installer Program
For more information about a similar procedure for Microsoft Office for Windows, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q120802 Office: How to Add/Remove a Single Office Program or Component


MORE INFORMATION

Note that you should restart your Macintosh while holding down the SHIFT key to disable extensions before running Setup with either of the following methods.

To Reinstall Office

If one of the Microsoft Office files becomes damaged after you have installed Office, follow these steps to reinstall Office:

  1. In the Finder, rename the damaged files.


  2. Run Microsoft Office Setup again from the Microsoft Office Install Disk 1 or from the network server directory from which you originally installed the program.

    The Setup program detects that Microsoft Office has already been installed, and starts the Microsoft Office Setup installation maintenance program.


  3. When the Microsoft Office Setup dialog box appears, click Reinstall.

    This procedure repeats your last installation. Setup detects the files that exist and replaces only the missing files. (Setup does not detect renamed files and replaces them.)

    Once the reinstallation is complete, the Microsoft Office Setup program will restart your Macintosh.


To Add a Single Program

To add a program, follow these steps:

  1. Run Microsoft Office Setup again from the Microsoft Office Install Disk 1 or from the network server directory from which you originally installed the program.


  2. When the Microsoft Office Setup dialog box appears, click the Add/Remove button.


  3. In the Components Not Yet Installed list, select the check box for the program that you want to add, and then click the Continue button.

    NOTE: If you only want to add part of a program, click the triangle next to the program name to display a list of the program options. Select the items that you want to add.


  4. Click the Continue button.

    The Microsoft Office Setup program will prompt you for the disks that it needs in order to add the files for the selected programs.


Once Setup is complete for the selected program, Setup will restart your Macintosh.

To Remove a Single Program

To remove a program, follow these steps:

  1. Run Microsoft Office Setup again from the Microsoft Office Install Disk 1, or from the network server directory from which you originally installed the program.

    The Setup program detects that Microsoft Office has already been installed, and starts the Microsoft Office Setup installation maintenance program.


  2. When the Microsoft Office Setup dialog box appears, click Add/Remove.

    A dialog box appears with a Components Not Yet Installed list, and an Installed Components list.


  3. In the Installed Components list, click to select the check box for the program that you want to remove, and then click Continue.

    NOTE: If you only want to remove part of a program, click the triangle next to the program name to display a list of the program options. Click to clear any items that you do NOT want to remove.


The Microsoft Office Setup program removes the files for the programs that you selected, and then restarts your Macintosh.

Additional query words: 4.21 


Keywords          : kbsetup offmac 
Version           : MACINTOSH:4.2,4.21
Platform          : MACINTOSH 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: June 21, 1999