2013 Profession: Microsoft Office

Office 2013 was the last version to offer a retail "perpetual" license for Publisher and Access before Microsoft aggressively pushed consumers toward Microsoft 365 subscriptions. For many system administrators, it was also the last "stable, no-nonsense" release before Office became a constantly updating service. Need help migrating from Office 2013 to Microsoft 365? Contact your IT provider—but be aware that Outlook 2013 will stop connecting to Microsoft's email servers in the near future.

Released to manufacturing in October 2012 and made generally available in early 2013, Microsoft Office 2013 Professional represented a pivotal shift for Microsoft. Codenamed Office 15 , this version was the first designed squarely for the touchscreen era, the rise of cloud storage, and the growing need for real-time collaboration. Microsoft Office 2013 Profession

A major productivity leap: Excel could now recognize patterns in your data entry and automatically fill the remaining cells without formulas or macros. Office 2013 was the last version to offer

You have an isolated, air-gapped PC, or you need to open legacy Publisher/Access files and refuse to pay a subscription. For daily work, even the free web versions of Office are more secure and feature-rich. Contact your IT provider—but be aware that Outlook

Word introduced a streamlined "Read Mode" with flippable pages and typography optimization. It also remembered exactly where you left off in a document—even across devices.