When you run the Office Setup program after Microsoft
Office has been installed, you are automatically put into Maintenance mode. One
of the Maintenance mode options is
Repair Office. If you use this option, the
Reinstall or Repair Office
Installation dialog box appears with the following two options:
| • | Reinstall Office. |
| • | Detect and repair errors in my Office
Installation. |
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There is a subtle difference between these two options and
you will want to make sure you choose the appropriate option based on your
situation. In either case, the Windows Installer
/f command line switch is being called. The difference is in the
parameters that are being attached to the
/f switch.
Note You can also perform a Repair procedure from any of the Office
programs by clicking
Detect and Repair on the
Help menu. This procedure is the same procedure that is performed when
you click the
Detect and repair errors in my Office
installation command in Maintenance mode.
The following
table outlines the
/f default combinations that are called when you perform either a
Repair or Reinstall:
/f combination passed
Mode to the Windows Installer
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Detect and Repair called /focums
from the Help menu
Detect and Repair errors /focum
in my Office Installation
called from Maintenance Mode
Reinstall Office called from /fecums
Maintenance Mode
If you click
Detect and repair errors in my Office
installation, the
Restore My Start Menu Shortcuts
check box becomes available, but is not selected. If you select this check box,
then the
/f switch combination becomes
/focums instead of the default
/focum.
The following table lists all of the parameters that
are available for use with the /f Windows Installer switch.
Option Description
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p Reinstall only if file is missing, or verify the
file is present.
o Reinstall if file is missing, or an earlier version
is present.
e Reinstall if file is missing, or an equal or earlier
version is present.
d Reinstall if file is missing, or a different version
is present.
c Reinstall if file is missing or corrupt. This option
only repairs files that have msidbFileAttributesChecksum
in the Attributes column of the File table.
a Force all files to be reinstalled, regardless of checksum
or version.
u Rewrite all required registry entries from the registry
table that go to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_USERS
registry keys.
m Rewrite all required registry entries from the registry
table that go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry key. Rewrite all information
from the Class table, Verb table, PublishComponent table,
ProgID table, MIME table, Icon table, Extension table,
and AppID table regardless of computer or user assignment.
Reinstall all qualified components.
s Reinstall all shortcuts and re-cache all icons,
overwriting any existing shortcuts and icons.
v Use to run from the source package and re-cache the local
package.
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To Run a Repair/Reinstall Procedure from the Command Line
You can also manually perform a Repair or Reinstall procedure
using a custom combination of
/f parameters. For example, if you only want to repair or reinstall
the Office shortcuts on the
Programs menu, follow these steps:
| 1. | Click Start, and then click Run. |
| 2. | In the Open box, type a command line similar to the one below: path\setup.exe /fs Msifile.msi where path is the folder where the
Setup.exe file is located and Msifile.msi is the
*.msi file you are using. |
| 3. | Click OK. |
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For more information, see the
Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit at:
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