Support for Office 2010 is ending soon

After 10 years, support for Office 2010 is ending October 13, 2020. This means Microsoft will no longer provide technical support or software and security updates. Continue to get supported by moving to Office 365 or other current versions of Office.

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What does end of support mean?

End of support, which is sometimes referred to as “end of life,” means Microsoft will no longer provide technical support or software and security updates for Office 2010 on October 13, 2020.

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What has changed since Office 2010?

The apps you know got smarter

Bringing ideas to life is easier with Office 365. Premium versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint help with built-in intelligence and let you coauthor, dictate into documents, and get real-time data.

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Accomplish more, together

Easily share and collaborate with others by making edits and offering feedback in real time. Work together with others for free using Office for the web.

Always have access to your information

Access and save your files securely from anywhere on all your favorite devices with 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.

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Protect what matters most

Safeguard your digital assets with OneDrive security such as ransomware detection, password-protected sharing links, and file recovery. With Outlook.com get advanced virus and phishing protection.

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No, support for Office 2010 will be discontinued, but the software will continue to function. After October 13, 2020, if your computer is running Office 2010, it will no longer receive security updates. Therefore, it's important that you move to our latest productivity software such as Office 365, which can provide the latest security updates to help keep you and your data safer. In addition, Microsoft customer service will no longer be available to provide Office 2010 technical support. Learn more.

Office 2010 includes applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook but we have not introduced any features in almost 10 years. Office 365 includes premium versions of these applications plus other services that are enabled over the internet, including online storage with OneDrive, added security and coauthoring capabilities. With Office 365 you get the full Office experience on PCs, Macs, tablets (including iPad® and Android™ tablet), and mobile devices.1 Office 365 is always up to date with the latest features and available as a monthly or annual subscription. Learn more about enterprise, education and consumer subscriptions.

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You don’t need to be connected to the internet to use Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, because the applications are fully installed on your computer.
 
However, internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Office 365 subscription plans. For Office 365 plans, internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options. Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the OneDrive desktop app.
 
You should also connect to the internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades. If you don’t connect to the internet at least every 31 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, which means that you can view or print your documents but cannot edit the documents or create new ones. To reactivate your Office applications, reconnect to the internet.

Yes. Documents that you have created belong fully to you. You can choose to store them online on OneDrive or locally on your PC or Mac.
 
If you cancel your subscription or it expires, you can still access and download all your files by signing into OneDrive directly using the Microsoft account you used to set up Office 365. You do lose the additional storage that comes with your subscription, so you must save your files elsewhere or buy more OneDrive storage if your OneDrive account exceeds the free storage quota.

No, while Office 365 offers the best collaboration experience, others can view and edit your files for free using Office for the web.

If you purchase an auto-renew subscription, your subscription starts when you complete your purchase. You can purchase auto-renew subscriptions from Office365.com, MicrosoftStore.com, iTunes®, and some other retailers. If you purchase a pre-paid subscription, your subscription starts when you activate your subscription and land on your My Account page. You can purchase pre-paid subscriptions from a retailer or reseller, or a Microsoft support agent.

If you have an active Office 365 Home subscription, you can share it with up to six members of your household. Each household member you share your subscription with can use any of your available installs on their PCs, Macs, iPads, Android tablets, Windows tablets, iPhones® or Android phones1, get an additional 1 TB of OneDrive storage, and manage their own installs from www.office.com/myaccount.

 
To add someone to your subscription, visit www.office.com/myaccount and follow the onscreen instructions to add a user. Each person you add will receive an email with the steps they need to follow. Once they have accepted and completed the steps, their information, including the installs they are using, will appear on your My Account page. You can stop sharing your subscription with someone or remove a device they are using at www.office.com/myaccount.

The cloud is a friendly way of describing web-based computing services that are hosted outside of your home or organization. When you use cloud-based services, your IT infrastructure resides off your property (off-premises) and is maintained by a third party (hosted), instead of residing on a server at your home or business (on-premises) that you maintain. With Office 365, for example, information storage, computation, and software are located and managed remotely on servers owned by Microsoft. Many services you use every day are a part of the cloud—everything from web-based email to mobile banking and online photo storage. Because this infrastructure is located online or “in the cloud,” you can access it virtually anywhere, from a PC, tablet, mobile device, or other device with an internet connection.

End of support for other products

Know when to upgrade. To find end of support dates for other Microsoft products, click here.

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Microsoft Office 365 subscription is the latest version of Office. Previous versions include Office 2013, Office 2010, Office 2007 and Office 2003.

 
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1 Availability of mobile apps varies by country/region. Find out what's available in your country/region.