Microsoft Word - With only Word installed, how do I prevent update downloads of Excel ?

From Home and Student 2010 I installed only Word using "custom."  I don't want Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote and so on.  How can I prevent update downloads of everything but Word?  Thanks...

Well you can first off turn off automatic updates. 
then you can manually check for updates and only select the ones you want.


This is all located under control panel.  I have mine set to check for the updates but to ask me which ones i want to install.
I did not find an option for the different applications in the office suite so you will have to do this manually.

Don

I think you are caught between a rock and a hard place.  MS is not very smart about how it determines which updates you need.  It seems to want to select all updates for the components of your version of Office regardless of which components you actually have installed.  In my case, I use Office 2010 so I have all of its components installed but I also have Access 2003 installed for testing purposes and MS always wants to download Office 2003 updates.  My solution is to allow automatic downloads but to prompt to install.  That way, I can go through the list and turn off the updates for the components I don't have.

Thanks, Don, for answering.  On my desktop PC I have Word 2007, also installed without the other stuff in Office.  I long ago turned off automatic updates and yet I still get update offers for Excel, Powerpoint etc.  When a list of newly available updates appears, I uncheck Excel, PP and so on, yet shortly thereafter there they are in "Update History."  Have you ever looked at "Update History" and then "Installed updates," which offers uninstalling?  I uninstall those I didn't want and get them again anyway.  Stubbornness, thy name is Microsoft.  Silverlight is along the same lines-- I long ago uninstalled it, yet updates still pop up.  I removed it from the Registry, brave girl that I am, yet the updates still come; I uncheck it, and it doesn't install, but it's always there offered as an "important update."  Next I'll uninstall Word, which is listed in Control Panel, Programs and Features, and start over.  I don't know how large Word is, but the update that came for Office the other day was 281 MB. 

Well Mary,

You are a brave soul for messing with Regedit.. :)  I am not so brave. I did read several pages of information from microsoft and from other forums, no one seemed to have a difinative answer to your question.

I did find this information about a server not being able to push updates to network computers when they have Office Source disabled.   here is the link and the steps

1. Determine the status of the Office Source Engine service. To do this, follow these steps:
2. Click Start, click Run, type services.msc, and then click OK.
3. In the list of services, double-click Office Source Engine.
4. View the option that appears in the Startup type list.
5. If the startup type is set to Disabled, change the startup type to Manual. To do this, click Manual in the Startup type list, and then click OK.
6. Try to install the Office Update packages again.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903774