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.
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