AFP548

Office 2008 Installer, InstaDMG compatible

I have not finished testing if this will work, but an idea I found out to simplify installing Office 2008 I figured to share for others to take advantage of. First, if you drag and drop the Office 2008 installer to your desktop, you can then modify the installer. Right-clicking on the installer package to view the contents you will see that Microsoft added a few new installer panes with use of plug-ins. (see Contents/Plugins/) If you remove the contents of the plugin folder, you will not be prompted for the setup wizard or key verification. This will allow you to perform the install of Office 2008. The initial results when trying to run any MS Office application trigger the First Time setup wizard. However, you get into (an almost) circular loop as you cannot actually Launch any MS application. Each relaunch only re-triggers the First Time setup wizard. This is expected behavior as a serial number is not current installed. I will post my research on where the unique Office 2008 files are placed. Ideally, one could create a second Installer just to install the serial number(s) as a follow up package. If any one tries this, please comment on your results.
Exit mobile version