Updated: February 12, 2013
Summary: Provides information about the standard system requirements for Office 2013 and the additional requirements of some Office 2013 applications.
Applies to: Office 2013 | Office 365 ProPlus
Audience: IT Professionals
This article outlines the system requirements for all versions of Office 2013, whether on-premises, Microsoft cloud hosted, or a hybrid of the two. If you are upgrading from earlier versions of Microsoft Office to Microsoft 2010, refer to the article System Requirements for Office 2010.
You may have to upgrade your hardware or operating system, or both, before you can use Office 2013. This article will help you determine whether you do have to do that.
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| Office 2013 is supported for both 32-bit (recommended) and 64-bit client applications. For more information, see
64-bit editions of Office 2013. You may also want to read
Choose the 32- or 64-bit version of Microsoft Office, which will help you decide which version of Office to install. We recommend that you install Silverlight together with Office 2013 to improve the online experience. |
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| MSI and Click-to-Run installations of Office 2013 require that Task Scheduler be enabled on the client computers. If you have set up Group Policy to disable Task Scheduler, or if a single client computer has Task Scheduler disabled, attempts to install Office 2013 will fail. |
- Office 2013 for personal computers – standard system requirements
- Office 2013 applications – specific requirements
Office 2013 for personal computers – standard system requirements
Refer
to the following table for a snapshot of the overall system
requirements for Office 2013. The following suites are included:
When you choose a product suite or individual program to deploy, evaluate the computers before you deploy any software to make sure that they meet the minimum operating system requirements.
- Office Home and Student 2013
- Office Professional Plus 2013
- Office Standard 2013
- Office Home and Business 2013
- Office 365
- Office 365 ProPlus
- Office 365 Home Premium
- Office 365 University
When you choose a product suite or individual program to deploy, evaluate the computers before you deploy any software to make sure that they meet the minimum operating system requirements.
Standard system requirements for Office 2013
| Component | Office 2013 requirements | ||
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| Computer and processor | 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set | ||
| Memory (RAM) | 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit); 2 gigabytes (GB) RAM (64-bit) | ||
| Hard Disk | 3.0 gigabytes (GB) available | ||
| Display | Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX10 graphics card and a 1024 x 576 or higher resolution monitor | ||
| Operating System | Office 2013 runs on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
Microsoft Windows operating systems. When you run Office 2013 32-bit on a
64-bit version of a Windows operating system, the program runs in the
32-bit layer of the Windows operating system. For more information, see
64-bit editions of Office 2013. Here are supported Windows operating systems on which you can run Office 2013 32-bit and 64-bit programs. Office 2013 32-bit products are supported on the following Windows operating systems:
**Windows Server 2012 is available only in 64-bit architecture
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| Browser | Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10; Mozilla Firefox 10.x or a later version; Apple Safari 5; or Google Chrome 17.x. | ||
| .NET version | 3.5, 4.0, or 4.5 | ||
| Multi-touch | A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that new touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8. | ||
| Additional requirements and considerations | Some functionality may vary, based on the system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity. |
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| System requirements are rounded up to the nearest 0.5 GB, to be conservative. For example, if we measure an application’s required hard disk space to be 1.99 GB, we recommend 2.5 GB of disk space. Our hard disk system requirements are intentionally larger than the actual disk space usage of the software. |
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