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You're an Office 365 subscriber and haven't yet upgraded to Microsoft Office 2016. If you're still running Microsoft Office 2013 and want to keep it that way, here's how you can avoid upgrading.
This option will be used on any Windows machine running Office. To open the registry, press the keyboard shortcut Windows key + R , enter regedit in the Run menu, press Enter , and confirm with Yes .
Now navigate to the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ office \ 15.0 \ common \ officeupdate
Here, open Edit> New… > DWORD (32-bit) value , name it enableautomaticupgrade , and set Value data to 0 .
Alternatively, download an easy fix from Microsoft that will implement this registry change and restart your computer for it to take effect.
This option is available to Office 365 ProPlus &Business customers. On a domain-joined machine, you can use Group Policy templates to prevent Microsoft Office 2013 from upgrading to Office 2016.
Within the Group Policy Editor, navigate to Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Microsoft Office 2013 (Machine)> Updates . Open Enable automatic update , set it to Disabled , and click Apply .
In case you cannot find this entry, the Office 2013 Administrative Template can be downloaded from Microsoft.
Be sure to restart your computer when you're done.
Before you can move from Microsoft Office 2016 to 2013, you need to remove the entire program from your machine. You can do it from Control Panel. Unlocking the Potential of Windows:Demystified by Control Panel. Unlocking the Potential of Windows:Demystified by Control Panel. We unravel the complexity of this power tool. Read more . For a clean uninstall, we recommend using the Microsoft Fix it tool. Is the Microsoft Fix It service really good? [MakeUseOf tests] Is the Microsoft Fix It service really good? [MakeUseOf Tests] Having computer problems? Microsoft's Fix It service tries to fix it for you. If you've browsed Microsoft's help pages, you've probably seen a variety of "Fix It" programs that you can run to quickly fix a… Read More .
To download the Microsoft Office 2016 uninstaller, click this Fix it link (direct download from Microsoft). Then open the file, click Next to allow the tool to scan your system, select Apply this patch , and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the removal of Microsoft Office 2016.
Microsoft has also provided a guide on how to manually uninstall Microsoft Office 2016 or Office 365.
The process to download Microsoft Office 2013 depends on your Office 365 subscription.
Browsing through Microsoft forums trying to find a way to downgrade to Microsoft Office 2013, you might get the impression that you're out of luck. Customer service representatives will direct you to the Microsoft Answer Desk.
Why?
Because they avoid mentioning that you can, for a limited time, still download Microsoft Office 2013 from your Office 365 account. We'll show you how.
Sign in to my Office account, click the red Install button, and go to Language and installation options .
On the next page, select Additional installation options in the background. On the final page, choose your Language and Version , then click the red Install button to download the installer.
To install Microsoft Office 2013, run the installer and follow the instructions on the screen. Yes, it was that easy! You're welcome.
Please note that we do not know how long this option will be available for. Unfortunately, what you are downloading is an "online installer", which means that the installation files are downloaded once the installer is activated. The install from disk The option, which previously allowed users to download a standalone installer (ie ISO file), appears to have been removed.
After removing Microsoft Office 2016 from your machine, you can use one of the following URLs, provided by Microsoft, to download your version of Office 2013.
If you want to download Microsoft Office 2013 in another language, please refer to this table and edit the corresponding link with the language code of your choice. The following example shows what this looks like for the Spanish version of Microsoft Office 2013 Business 64-bit.
https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=O365BusinessRetail&platform=X64&language=es-es&version=O15GA&source=O15OLSO365
Alternatively, you can use the Office Deployment Tool, as long as your product ID is supported.
Remember that you will receive updates for the Office 2013 version of Office 365 ProPlus until September 2016. After September 2016, updates for Office 2013 will be discontinued.
Upgrading can be quick and easy. But if you discover that the new version no longer supports a critical routine or something went wrong, it can be a disaster. Even if you've just upgraded a little too early and have to sit through some minor bugs, dealing with the fallout is a pain.
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