For example, if you have Office Professional Plus 2013 installed, you can't uninstall everything except Excel.
Only full product removals are supported. For example, language packs, language interface packs, or proofing tools. Language resources for those versions are also kept. For example, if you specify VisPro, both Visio Professional 2016 and Visio Professional 2013 will be kept. All versions found on the computer will be kept.
For example, the Setup.xml file for Office Professional Plus 2010 is found in the ProPlus.WW folder. WW folder of the installation files for your previous version of Office. The product ID is the Setup ID that is found in the Setup.xml file in the. The following are examples of supported IDs for Project and Visio: To keep a particular Office product, you add an IgnoreProduct line to your configuration.xml file and you specify its product ID. But, in a few cases, such as for application compatibility testing, you might need to keep a previous version installed for a limited time while you transition to the new version. We recommend that you uninstall any previous versions of Office, including Visio and Project, before installing the newer version.
Keep some Office products and uninstall all other Office products
This will use the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the internet as a backup source from which to install the language files. To avoid this situation, we recommend that you include AllowCdnFallback="True" in your configuration.xml file. If any of the languages needed to install aren't available in that folder, the installation will continue but without those languages being installed. If you’re installing Microsoft 365 Apps from a location on your local network, such as a shared folder, make sure you’ve downloaded all the possible language files to that folder. For example, if Office Professional Plus 2013 in French and Visio Standard 2013 in German are installed, you will get both French and German, along with any other language IDs you have specified, when you install Microsoft 365 Apps.
For more information, see Windows 7 end of support and Microsoft 365 Apps. Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020.
We recommend that you always download and use the most current version of the Office Deployment Tool.
RemoveMSI doesn’t uninstall prior versions of Office, including Visio and Project, that use Click-to-Run as the installation technology.