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Chapter 2 30 Chapter 2 Installing and updating Office 2013 Note The product key you enter determines which edition will be installed. For the three retail editions (Home & Student, Home & Business, and Professional), the installation files are identical. The Office setup website adjusts its setup behavior to match the product whose key you enter. The Click-to-Run method uses virtualization in a way that allows you to begin using Office programs almost immediately as they are streamed to your computer. During this process, you need to remain connected to the Internet to download the Office installation files, but upon completion Office is fully installed and you can use it offline. Click-to-Run offers other advantages over traditional online program delivery: you get the most up-to-date version of Office, and you don’t need to download or install patches immediately following installation. This technology isn’t new. Some editions of Office 2010 (especially Starter edition) pioneered the technology, but did so with sometimes less-than-graceful results. (If you remember having to wrestle with a phantom Q drive, you know what we’re talking about.) The Click-to-Run installer in Office 2013 is remarkably more polished than its predecessors. Note A Click-to-Run Office installation is subtly different from one that is installed using the Windows Installer. Both types of installations can run Office programs after the download is complete without requiring an Internet connection. The Click-to-Run installation keeps a program called IntegratedOffice.exe running continuously; it periodically uses your Internet connection to check for updates, download them, and install them auto- matically. By contrast, a conventional Windows Installer–based version of Office uses Microsoft Update to deliver security updates and service packs. For Click-to-Run installations, the Microsoft Office service must run at all times. When an individual Office program is running, you’ll see its executable file in Task Man- ager—Winword.exe for Microsoft Word, for example. But if you check the location of that file, you’ll find it in a different place depending on the mode of installation. For a conventional installation of 32-bit Office 2013 from a Windows Installer file, the program files will be located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15. The
Setting up Office 31 corresponding files for a Click-to-Run installation on a 64-bit Windows 8 machine will be in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15. None of these details should matter in day-to-day use. In fact we recommend strongly against poking around in these locations, much less trying to tinker with these files manually. But the details are worth knowing about if you’re puzzled when program files aren’t where you expect them. (If you really must know the ins and outs of the technology, see w7io.com/10286.) We discuss the mechanics of installing Office from an Office 365 dashboard in more detail in Chapter 8, “Using Office 2013 with an Office 365 subscription.“ For now, you should be aware of the following characteristics of the Click-to-Run installation method: ●● Click-to-Run allows you to choose between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2013. The default is 32-bit. Before installation, Click-to-Run checks for current Office installations (including previous versions). If you have a 64-bit version of Office installed, you will be blocked from running the 32-bit installer, and vice-versa. You must install a Click-to-Run version that matches the “bitness” of currently installed Office versions or uninstall those versions before you can proceed. ●● Click-to-Run does not allow you to pick and choose which Office programs to install as part of setup. Your installation includes all of the programs that are part of your Office 365 plan. You can hide or remove shortcuts and Start screen tiles, but you cannot remove individual Office programs. ●● Click-to-Run does not upgrade existing Office programs but instead exists alongside them. You can remove the older Office versions before or after installing the Click-to- Run version of Office 2013. ●● Microsoft says you cannot have a Click-to-Run version and a Windows Installer version of Office 2013 on the same PC. You may encounter an error message if you try to create this configuration. To install using Click-to-Run, you must be a member of the Administrators group. After you click OK in the User Account Control dialog box (providing your Administrator credentials if necessary), the Microsoft Office Click-to-Run program begins. You must accept the license Chapter 2
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