Add or Remove Features from Office

Tagged: Windows

Office is freaking huge. You can remove or add many different components without difficulty. This recipe explains how to add the photo editor.

For some reason Microsoft doesn’t bundle a good photo editor with windows. The office package contains a photo editor which is poor but better than nothing.

This shows the user the basic mechanism for adding or removing features from an office installation.

This works for win2k and XP.

1. Start -> Control Panel
2. Add/Remove Programs
3. Click on Microsoft Office
4. Click Change
5. Click Add/Remove Features
6. Click the “+” before Office Tools
7. Click on the box before Microsoft Photo Editor
8. Select Run from My Computer
9. Click Update
10. Office will update itself. You may need to insert your CDs.

This same technique can be used for removing useless features like the office shortcut bar.