Office Customization Tool

Remove previous installations

Specifies previous versions of Office applications to keep or remove. This option only applies when Office is first installed on a user's computer.

By default, Setup removes all previous versions of Office applications. To keep an installed Office application, complete the following steps:

  1. Select Remove the following earlier versions of Microsoft Office programs.
  2. Select the Office application that you do not want to remove, and then click Details.
  3. Under Choose which earlier versions you want Setup to remove, clear the check box, and then click OK.


 Note    Microsoft Outlook 2010 cannot coexist with previous versions of Outlook. If you choose to keep previous versions, do not install Outlook 2010.