You will be prompted to enter your administrator password because the installation cannot continue without it. Once you confirm that you want to download and install Office, the rest will take place behind the scenes. Please note that because of Gatekeeper settings in OS X, you may have to right click the installer app and choose open in order to get it to launch. This is an Automator app which will simply download and run the office2011.sh for you. Once the script finishes, it will run "Microsoft AutoUpdate.app" to make sure that there are not additional updates necessary.
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Once you start the script, it will download everything that you need directly from Microsoft's servers and install all of them for you. You do not need your installation DVDs or to have downloaded the latest updates. The best part of the script is that it does not require you to have any of the necessary parts.
So I wrote a shell script because that's what I do to solve these sorts of problems.
I own Microsoft Office 2011 and wanted to make the process of installing it easier, since I own several Macs and have this habit of reinstalling OS X frequently.