We’re using Office 365 to support Choose Your Own Device. On my Windows laptop I’ve installed it. There is no option to remove unneeded programs after the installation. To save some room (like on a SSD) you can configure which programs to install.

First you’ll need to get the Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-run (download page) or search for it on microsoft.com downloads.

Run the tool with /extract option. This will put the setup.exe and configuration.xml files on disk.

officedeploymenttool /extract:d:\Personal\Downloads\office

Now edit the configuration.xml to exclude applications you don’t want. Microsoft has a technet article about the options. Below is mine

<Configuration>
   <Add OfficeClientEdition="32">
      <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
         <Language ID="nl-nl"/>
         <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher"/>
         <ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath"/>
         <ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
         <ExcludeApp ID="OneNote"/>
         <ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive"/>
      </Product>
   </Add>
   <Updates Enabled="TRUE"/>
   <Display AcceptEULA="TRUE" Level"None"/>
   <Logging Path="d:\Personal\Downloads\office"/>
</Configuration>

Only two more commands and you’re done

setup /download configuration.xml
setup /configure configuration.xml

The first command will download the installation files. The second will do the installation. Both take in account only the programs you want to have. You might also want to do a (Windows) update.

No more unwanted programs = extra free space on your drive. And we all love free space!