Since Act! is not owned by Microsoft, their decisions on upgrading software remain independent of each other.  Historically, Act! will not release any patches or updates until Office has been published.  Also, Act! doesn’t retrofit earlier versions of Act! to be compliant with the latest version of Office.

So, what happens if you get one new PC out of ten with Office 2013 while running Act! 2011 ?  If you call Act!, then you have to upgrade ALL ten PCs to make that one PC compliant with Act! and Office 2013.

That’s no longer the case since you found this page.  We have a couple solutions that work-around this and save you $200+/PC in upgrade costs.  There can be other compelling reasons to upgrade Act!; however, Office compatibility may not have to be one of them.

Here is our Act! and Office Compatibility Chart:

Office / Act! Act! 2008 Act! 2009 Act! 2010 Act! 2011 Act! 2012 Act! 2013 Act! v16 Act! v17
Office 2003 OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK
Office 2007 OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK
Office 2010 Word & Excel | add Outlook Word & Excel | add Outlook Word & Excel | add Outlook OK OK OK OK OK
Office 2013 Outlook Only Outlook Only Outlook Only Word & Excel | add Outlook Word & Excel | add Outlook Requires Service Pack 1 OK OK

For any version to work natively or with our patches, 32 bit Office must be installed.