Dedoimedo published a tutorial about customizing Microsoft Office installations.

How to customize Microsoft Office installations

Welcome to the future, where newer is always better. Or is it? Here's a tutorial showing how to run customized installations of newer version of the Microsoft Office suite using the Office Deployment Tool, covering XML configuration file and application exclusions, download and setup, and more. Because GUI is so 2000. Take a look.

How to customize Microsoft Office installations - Tutorial