Upgrading from Microsoft Office 2007 to Office 2016

Wikikenkey

I am going to upgrade from Microsoft Office 2007 to 2016 this weekend and would be grateful if you could give me any tips / do's and don'ts.

For instance, will all my emails in Outlook 2007 be retained once I upgrade?
Should I uninstall Office 2007 before installing 2016?

Is there anything I should make sure I do beforehand apart from backing up crucial files.

Thanks for any help.

Neil_Jones

You should be backing up anyway.

Make sure you have the server settings and the PST files for your Outlook backed up before you upgrade. While most PST files are backwards compatible anyway, better safe than sorry.

Publisher, if you still use it, is NOT backwards compatible, so once you save something in Publisher 2016 no previous version of Publisher will be able to read it.

The upgrade will typically remove your Office 2007 - you may be able to have them side by side but as they work in near enough the same way - the ribbon's still there, the colours are different but that's cosmetic and the entire operation runs under your MS account. Apart from that it's still the programs you know and love.

dipsomaniac

when i installed 2016 this week office 2003 was left installed on pc. May also be good time to switch to webmail over outlook

pogofish

I found the transition pretty seamless but I did keep an old install of 2007 on one of my laptops.

However, when I went to install 2016, keeping the previous version meant I was limited to only installing the 32-bit of 2016, which is a bit slower/more clunky at some things compared to the 64-bit

grumpycrab

dipsomaniac wrote: »

May also be good time to switch to webmail over outlook

Why's that?

dipsomaniac

just a suggestion as webmail a lot easier to use and manage imo

kram

Definitely back up your emails to pst & I would also backup your pc with something like veeam endpoint backup free or clonezilla if you have an ext hard drive handy.

Only use the 32 bit version as ms don't recommend using 64 bit as there have been lot's of issues with it.

Hope it all goes ok.

Wikikenkey

Thanks all. Upgrade went smoothly. All emails in the right place in Outlook.