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Please advise what procedures need to be followed in order to do a custom install of 2013. At least that's the way it has been with past versions of Office. Should be identical to the one which can be purchased from Microsoft, I would think. The only other thing I can guess (and this would be outrageous if true) is that for some nutty reason you have to purchase the 'Backup disc / media' from Microsoft to be able to customize the install? The downloaded 'image' file which created the DVD disc Home & Business that now I have to go out & buy the Retail version, just to get the 'custom install' option? That would be just plain crazy! What the Devil has happened to this one? Please don't tell me that, after having already paid Dell for the OEM version of Office 2013 I have been installing Microsoft Office for 20 years now and every version up toĪnd including Office 2010 has offered a custom install, so you could pick & choose what you wanted to go on your computer. Still did not give me the option to customize the installation, either at the beginning of the install nor later from the 'Add / Remove Programs' section of the Control Panel. Which could be ordered from Microsoft, but apparently this is not the case.Īfter I created the disc from the downloaded image file I had the exact same experience as with the ridiculous 'Click-to-Run' fiasco, with the exception being that it loaded from the disc and not over the Internet via the 'streaming' method. Now you would assume that if you created a DVD from the image file this would be the same as a so-called 'backup disc' Then finally, a day or so ago the '.img' file magically appeared and I was able to download it (it took forever) and burn a DVD from it.

After that proved to be a disaster when it did not give me an option to customize the installation during the install nor later after it was installed, I uninstalled it and began trying toĭownload the image or '.img' file, which was unavailable, as many posts here will attest to. At first, not having any experience with Office 2013 or 'Click-to-Run' I downloaded the small executable file with the license numberĮmbedded into it, from the official Microsoft Office 2013 Website.

Buy microsoft office 2013 home and business on disk software#

To be clear, we are talking about the OEM version of the software here, which was purchased along with a new Dell computer.