Installing microsoft office but not installing every single office program is very difficult, much more so than it should be
I don't _want_ onenote, microsoft, stop trying to force it on us
you have to use the office deployment tool which is designed for setting up many computers at once and you have to go into its configuration file and instead of telling it "install this this and this" you have to tell it "okay /don't/ install this, don't install that, don't install this" for every single one of the apps and you have to look up what all of the programs are and I don't even know what lync is nor did we know it existed so if you forgot that too bad you have lync now, whatever it is
this is what the configuration file looks like to install Word, Excel, and Powerpoint and nothing else. Note that you have to know not what you want to install but everything you don't want to install, and that you also have to tell it not to pin icons for each one on your taskbar because of course it clutters your taskbar by default
