The benefit of this installer is that it lets you use the downloaded Office programs before the whole Office suite is installed in your computer. Its an online installer which downloads Office files at the time of installation. On the other hand, the new C2R installer is an absolute different type of program which actually streams Office setup files from Microsoft servers. The MSI installer allowed users to select or deselect desired Office programs at the time of installation so that the Office setup wizard installs only selected programs. In older Office versions such as Office 2003, 2007, etc, Microsoft used to provide traditional MSI (Windows Installer) to Office users to install Office suite in their computers.

Since the release of Office 2010 version, Microsoft has started using a new virtualization technology to distribute Office setup and installation files to users and the technology is called “ Click-to-Run” or “ C2R Installer“.

NOTE: This tutorial will work for Office 2013 and later versions such as Office 2016 and Office 2019.

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