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Downgrade from Office 365 to Office 2013 or 2016

Anonymous
2019-06-14T06:08:14+00:00

Recently we have upgrade to office 365-64 bit, however due to some software is not applicable to Office 365 how can i downgrade to Office 2016 or Office 2013?

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-06-14T09:01:10+00:00

    Hi KK,

    There are no built-in solution to downgrade Office directly. You will need uninstall your Office first: Uninstall Office from a PC.

    After you uninstalling Office, you can install the target version of Office 2013 or 2016 with ODT:

    Overview of the Office Deployment Tool

    1. Download the tool and open it. It will let you choose a location (for example C:\ODT2016) in your machine to extract it. 

    2. Open the location you chosed in step 1, open one of the configure file with notepad and change the content to the following script and save it(for example, the name is Office365Configuration):

    <Configuration>

      <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Broad" Version="16.0.8201.2193">

        <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">

          <Language ID="en-us" />

        </Product>

      </Add>

    <Updates Enabled="True" Channel="Broad" />

    </Configuration>

    Change the version number to the target version you want. you can get it from the following articles:

    Update history for Office 2013

    Retail versions of Office 2016 C2R and Office 2019(According to this article, the latest version of Office 365 ProPlus uses the same version number with Office 2016)

    1. Open Command Prompt from start menu
    2. input the following command:

    cd C:\ODT2019

    setup.exe /download Office365Configuration.xml (This is the file name in step 2)

    After this command, Office start to download, you could wait until the C:\ODT2016 show up in next line and input the next command:

    setup.exe /configure Office365Configuration.xml

    Then Office will start to install.

    Regards,

    Alex

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-06-14T09:04:46+00:00

    Hi KK, 

    To change office from 64-bit to 32-bit, you also need to uninstall first and reinstall. You can install it from portal: portal.office.com and the default will be 32-bit.

    Regards,

    Alex

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-06-15T10:43:21+00:00

    Hi KK,

    Welcome to reply if you need further assistance.

    Regards,

    Alex

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-06-14T07:38:20+00:00

    At the moment is office 365-64bit, how can i change back to 32 bit?

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-06-14T07:32:02+00:00

    By uninstalling 365 and installing the other office version you own. Mind you there is no real difference between 365 business and the versions you mention, with regard compatibility.

    Perhaps you need to use 365 32bit and not 64bit?

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