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Does anyone know of an easy way to Uninstall Office 2010 but not Access 2010?

I have a need to uninstall all of Microsoft Office 2010, but leave Access 2010 installed.  If this could be done in the background as well, that would be great.  Any help would be Greatly appreciated.

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Thanks Jim,
I actually just got off the phone with Microsoft and they basically said the same thing.  The guy is going to email me within the hour with the exact verbiage.  I'll post it on here as soon as I get it, but the gist of it was that it couldn't be done like that.  It needs to be completely uninstalled and then reinstalled with just Access.
Here's what Microsoft says:

1.       Office 2010 MSI cannot be uninstalled individually by the design of the product. To accomplish having Access 2010 left behind we would have to uninstall all of Office 2010 and then Install a custom version of Office 2010 that just has Access installed. That can be accomplished in the Office Customization Tool. If you would like I do have a tool called Offscrub for Office 2010 that is designed to remove the Office 2010 with an easy to run VBS script. If you would like it please reach out to me and I will get it to you as fast as I can.
2.       Office 365 2016 DOES include Access 2016 automatically in the base package. From what is understood, you would like to have Office 365 installed but exclude Access 2016. Below I have created a basic XML file that excludes Access 2016. This is just a basic version of it and you may customize it to fit your needs better.

<Configuration>
    <Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Current">
        <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
            <Language ID="en-us" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
        </Product>
    </Add>
    <Updates Channel="Deferred" Enabled="TRUE" />
    <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
    <Logging Level="Standard" />
    <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />
    <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="TRUE" />
    <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1" />
    <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="TRUE" />
</Configuration>
Confirming it can't be done is good enough for me...

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