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Menu commands and their corresponding toolbar buttons
Shortcut keys
Most options in the Options dialog box
Note:
Most of the Office 2013 Preview policy settings are also available in the OCT (OPA settings).
To configure initial default settings in a Setup customization .msp file, administrators can use
the OCT. However, users can change most of the settings after the installation. Use Group
Policy if you want to enforce specific configurations. Group Policy settings have precedence
over OCT settings.
Required local installation source
In Office 2013 Preview, Setup creates a local installation source on the user's computer as part of the
default installation process. Setup installs all Office 2013 Preview products in a two-step process. First,
Setup copies compressed installation source files to the user's computer. Second, Setup calls Windows
Installer to perform the actual installation from the local installation source. After the installation is
complete, the local installation source remains available for any Setup operations that require access to
an original source. Minimum disk space requirements include the local installation source.
Note:
In Office 2003, large organizations typically installed the product from an administrative
installation point. Installing Office from a local installation source was optional. However, In the
Office 2013 Preview,and in Office 2010 and Office 2007, the administrative installation option
no longer exists. The local installation source is a required part of the design.
The local installation source makes the distribution of software updates process more efficient and
reliable. Neither the network installation point nor the user's local installation source is ever updated
directly. Users' installations remain synchronized when they apply the client version of software
updates.
Additional benefits of having a complete installation source always available on the local computer
include the following:
You can deploy the local installation source to users before they install Office. This minimizes the
effect on the network and makes sure that all users install the product and begin to use Office 2013
Preview applications at the same time.
Users can perform maintenance tasks, such as applying software updates, without being prompted
for their Office CD or a network source.
Traveling users, or users who have slow or intermittent network connections, can run Setup without
access to the network if they have a local installation source that was installed in advance.
These benefits come at minimal cost. Although the local installation source does use some hard disk
space, creating the local installation source and installing Office takes approximately the same time as
installing Office by itself.