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The Office Setup program accepts a number of optional
command-line properties that you can use to control how the Setup program
operates. This article lists the properties and describes the functionality of
each property.

For more information about these properties and their
possible settings, see the “References” section of this article.

For
a list of command-line switches, please see the following Knowledge Base
article:

WARNING: The properties in this article have not all been tested with
Office 2000 and may not work with Office 2000. Also, some properties may be
specific to a particular operating system. For example, a property may work for
Microsoft Windows 2000 but not for Microsoft Windows 98.

All properties listed in this article are documented in one
of the following locations, with more information about the available settings:

• The Setupref.xls file from the Microsoft Office 2000
  Resource Kit
• The FileList.xls file from the Microsoft Office 2000
  Resource Kit
• Online Help, Msi.chm, from the Windows Installer 1.1
  Software Development Kit (SDK)
• The Readme.doc file from the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource
  Kit.

Setupref.xls and Filelist.xls

You can also download the Offinfo.exe file from the ORK tools
site at the following Web address: When you run Offinfo.exe on your computer, Setupref.xls and
Filelist.xls are extracted. This is a Microsoft Excel workbook with a complete
list of Setup command-line switches and properties.

Windows Installer 1.1 SDK Help

Windows Installer 1.1 SDK help can be downloaded from the
following Microsoft Web site: When you install the Windows Installer 1.1 SDK, the Windows
Installer 1.1 Help file, Msi.chm, is also installed on your computer.

Readme.doc for the ORK

The Readme.doc file for the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit
can be downloaded from the following ORK Web site:

Article ID: 270920 – Last Review: July 30, 2012 – Revision: 3.0