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Compatibility in Office 2013
Updated: March 19, 2013
Summary: Contains articles that will help you evaluate Office 2013 compatibility in your organization.
Applies to: Office 2013 | Office 365 ProPlus
Audience: IT Professionals
The following table includes links to new Office 2013 compatibility tools and resources.
Office 2013 Compatibility resources on TechNet and MSDN
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Provides information about the articles, downloads, scripts, and videos that help IT Professionals assess Office 2013 compatibility. |
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Lists the changed and removed features since Office 2010 was released. |
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Learn how to assess Office compatibility in your organization by using Telemetry Dashboard and the modern Office compatibility process. |
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Provides information about Office Telemetry, the new compatibility monitoring framework that works with Office 2013, Office 2007, and Office 2003. |
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Monitor Office compatibility and deployments by using Telemetry Dashboard |
Explains how to view the stability of Office documents and solutions and the status of your Office deployments by using Telemetry Dashboard. |
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See what's available to help you deploy and configure Telemetry Dashboard in your organization. |
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Download a visual representation of the Telemetry Dashboard components and how they work. This poster includes a description of all components, a list of what Office files are monitored, how data collection works, and more. 
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Provides information about the file formats that are supported in Word 2013, Excel 2013, and PowerPoint 2013. |
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Provides information about XML file formats and their extensions that are used by Word 2013, Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013, and Visio 2013. |
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Describes Group Policy settings and Office Customization Tool (OCT) settings that address OpenDocument Format and Open XML Formats in Office 2013. |
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Visit our blog for the latest news on Telemetry Dashboard and Office 2013 compatibility. |
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Get more information about issues displayed in the Telemetry Log about possible compatibility issues in Excel 2013, Word 2013, and Outlook 2013. |
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Troubleshooting Office files and custom solutions with the Office Telemetry Log |
Use the Telemetry Log to determine compatibility issues with Microsoft Office 2013 and solutions built for earlier versions of Microsoft Office. |
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Office 2013 and Office 365 ProPlus - Planning, Deployment, and Compatibility forum |
If you have questions about how to use Telemetry Dashboard or its components, you can submit your questions in this TechNet forum. |
The following video recordings about compatibility in Office 2013 are available to view online or to download.
Videos about compatibility in Office 2013
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This video provides a short demonstration of how to navigate within Telemetry Dashboard in Office 2013. These tips help you start the dashboard, hide and show data, and quickly go back to a previous worksheet |
The following table contains links to newly published content, getting started content, and content feedback information.
Other Office resources for IT pros
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Newly published content |
See the following article for a list of new or recently updated Office Resource Kit articles. |
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Getting started |
TechNet documentation includes the following articles about the new features in Office and Office 365 ProPlus. |
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Provide feedback |
To provide feedback about the documentation for Office 2013Office 365 ProPlus, choose the Feedback link at the bottom of the page. This delivers your feedback directly to the documentation team.
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Change History
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March 19, 2013 |
Added the article, "Group Policy and OCT settings for OpenDocument and Office Open XML formats." |
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July 16, 2012 |
Initial publication |
