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Uninstall all Office products

Uninstall all Office products

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Uninstall all Office products

- [Instructor] If you're getting ready to upgrade to a new version of Microsoft Office, you may decide that you want to uninstall the previous version before you install the new version. And that's something that we can do with Setup.exe. So, you'll notice here that I've created an XML file called RemoveMSI. Let's go ahead and open this up and take a look at what's inside. So at first glance, this RemoveMSI.xml file looks like a really basic Office installation file. But if you notice the second line from the bottom says RemoveMSI. This is an instruction that tells setup to remove any previously-existing Microsoft Office versions. So let me go ahead and close this out, and let's take a look at how this works. I'm going to go ahead and open a Command Prompt window and you can see that I'm already in the Tools folder where the Office Deployment Tool exists, and I'm going to type Setup.exe/configure, and then RemoveMSI.xml. And you can see that setup is starting, and it takes a little…

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