
In the event I need not have worried, the upgrade delivered my new Outlook 2013 inbox complete with all my old emails. Perhaps it was a corollary of Murphy's Law, if you make a backup, then nothing ever goes wrong! I was so concerned that I took the unusual step, for me, of making an extra copy of my old outlook 2010 files. pst database, leading to compatibility problems, and tricky techniques to import and export the contacts. Furthermore, over the years my antennae have picked up factoids such as changes in the b-Tree structure of the. The outlook.pst file holds all my crucial email correspondence, it would be desperate to lose all that invaluable information.


My specific worry was losing Outlook data. Yet my nagging concern was that upgrading to Office 2013 would require me to learn new techniques.Ĭirca Windows 95 Microsoft made a big play of backward compatibility but ever since there has been a steady uncoupling of previous features, stuff that worked in XP is not available in Vista, and famously, the Start Button is not available in Windows 8.0 I have installed every edition of Microsoft Word from Word 2 to Word 2010, all without reading any instructions other than the on-screen prompts. Overcoming Guy's Office 2013 Install Fears

Alternatively, for organizations requiring a static, unchanging product, consider moving to Office LTSC 2021. Please start upgrading to Microsoft 365 Apps, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Below is a list of Office products that currently support connection to Microsoft 365 (and Office 365): After this date, support for Office 2013 will end and security updates will no longer be available, per the Fixed Lifecycle Policy. This may increase your organization's exposure to security risks or impact compliance obligations.Īdditionally, customers connecting to Microsoft 365 via an Office 2013 client may experience performance or reliability issues. Office 2013 will reach the end of support on April 11, 2023. Please go here to search for your product's lifecycle.
