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Reinstall Office 2013

Reinstall Office 2013 after an Office 2016 upgrade

APPLIES TO: Office 2016 , Office 365 , Office 2013

If you have an Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscription, you now have the option to install Office 2016 or Office 2013 on your PC. You should only install Office 2013 if you’re having specific compatibility issues with your Office 2016 upgrade. If you connect to an Exchange 2007 mailbox, you might want to stay on Office 2013 or even uninstall Office 2016 and reinstall Office 2013. If you have Office 2013 standalone apps that are incompatible with Office 2016, you may want to stay on Office 2016 and take advantage of the Special offer for customers with Office 2016 and Office 2013 standalone applications.

If you create a document using an Office 2016 application and you send it to someone who’s using Office 2013, the recipient can still open and edit the document in the corresponding Office application. The same is true for documents going from Office 2013 to Office 2016.

How to reinstall Office 2013 with an Office 365 subscription package

How to reinstall a one-time purchase of Office 2013 product

How to reinstall Office 2013 with an Office 365 subscription package

Uninstall Office 2016 from your computer.

Sign in to My Account page and deactivate the Office 2016 iinstallation.

Just go to My Account page, and choose Install.

Screen shot of the My Account page with the "Install" button selected.
Choose your Language and install options.


Choose Additional install options.

Select Additional install options
In the drop-down list under the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office section, choose Office 2013 (32-bit) or Office 2013 (64-bit), and then choose Install.

Choose Office 2013 from the dropdown
Click Run or the equivalent depending on the browser you’re using.

Just few more steps to complete the Office installation
TIP: If you didn’t remove Office 2016 before attempting to reinstall Office 2013, you’ll get an error that detects a newer version of Office is installed on your device. You’ll need to uninstall Office 2016 before you can continue to install office 2013.

The installation will occur in the background. How long it takes depends on your internet connection. 

When you see "You're good to go", choose the "All done" button.

After you reinstall Office 2013, you’ll eventually receive notifications to upgrade to Office 2016.

Get the new Office
You can dismiss the notification, and it will disappear until the next time you launch an Office 2013 application. You can also permanently disable the notification by using a registry key. You can download an easy fix tool that will set the registry key for you.

NOTE: Go to Can't find Office applications in Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7? if you encounter a problem after installing or reinstalling Office 2013.

How to reinstall a one-time purchase of Office 2013

If you bought and installed Office 2016 as a one-time purchase to replace Office 2013 Home & Student or Office 2013 Home & Business, you can uninstall Office 2016 and reinstall your copy of Office 2013.