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The Setup program accepts optional command line parameters. These can be useful to system administrators, and to other programs calling the Setup program.

/SP-

Disables the This will install… Do you wish to continue? prompt at the beginning of Setup.

/SILENT, /VERYSILENT

Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent. When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not displayed but the installation progress window is. When a setup is very silent this installation progress window is not displayed. Everything else is normal so for example error messages during installation are displayed and the startup prompt is. Note that for Windows 7, UAC prompts may still be shown depending on the system setup and privileges of the account.

/SUPPRESSMSGBOXES

Instructs Setup to suppress message boxes. Only has an effect when combined with ‘/SILENT’ and ‘/VERYSILENT’.

The default response in situations where there’s a choice is:

• Yes in a ‘Keep newer file?’ situation.
• No in a ‘File exists, confirm overwrite.’ situation.
• Abort in Abort/Retry situations.
• Cancel in Retry/Cancel situations.
• Yes (=continue) in a DiskSpaceWarning/DirExists/DirDoesntExist/NoUninstallWarning/ExitSetupMessage/ConfirmUninstall situation.
• Yes (=restart) in a FinishedRestartMessage/UninstalledAndNeedsRestart situation.

5 message boxes are not suppressible:

• The About Setup message box.
• The Exit Setup? message box.
• The FileNotInDir2 message box displayed when Setup requires a new disk to be inserted and the disk was not found.
• Any (error) message box displayed before Setup (or Uninstall) could read the command line parameters.
• Any message box displayed by [Code] support function MsgBox.

/DIR=”x:\dirname”

Overrides the default directory name displayed on the Select Destination Location wizard page. A fully qualified pathname must be specified. May include an “expand:” prefix which instructs Setup to expand any constants in the name. For example: ‘/DIR=expand:{pf}\My Program’ where {pf} is a pre-defined constant within the setup application which corresponds to the PROGRAMFILES environment variable.

/GROUP=”folder name”

Overrides the default folder name displayed on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. May include an “expand:” prefix, see ‘/DIR=’.

Pre-Pidded Install

This product does not currently support pre-pidded installations and all unique license credentials must be entered within the add-in via the PowerPoint User Interface.