Today, technology is part of the daily lives of many people, as it is present in daily life, we can see it in the workplace, in the school environment, in the personal environment, etc. Technology in general plays a very important role in our daily lives, to provide us with many things that were previously thought impossible.
Today, one of the companies that has been able to exploit the field of applications and software to meet the needs of users is Microsoft, along with its Microsoft Office Application. The Microsoft Office application provides us with extremely useful programs such as, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, which are the quintessential options recommended by many experts for all kinds of work, writing, presentations, etc.
How to view the version from the Office App?
Knowing which version of Office we have installed on our computers is really relevant, because despite the great success of Microsoft Office, it has many compatibility issues between its different versions. Therefore, it is ideal to know which version we have to avoid possible failures when passing files.
Launch the Office app
The first thing we need to do to find out which version of Microsoft Office we have on our computer is to first start the Office application on our computer.
We can do this a through a shortcut on our desktop or by searching in the search bar of our ‘Microsoft Office’ file browser so that the program appears and you can click to start it.
Select ‘file’
Once we have opened the Microsoft Office program either from the file browser or from our computer desktop. We will go to the option called ‘file’ at the top left of the screen and click on it. This will take us to another special tab called ‘file’.
Go to ‘Account’
Once we click on the ‘file’ option in the upper corner of the screen, it will show us another tab where we can see several options, we will click on the one that says ‘account’
How to view the Word, Excel and PowerPoint version?
Knowing which versions we use of major Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint is very important because of all the incompatibility issues than Microsoft Office he suffers. For incompatibility can harm us in many ways, because we could not know which files will be supported with our versions of Microsoft Office and many files and documents could not be viewed on our computers.
Open a file
In order to know which version of Word, Excel or PowerPoint we have installed on our computer, the first thing we must do is open a file of that program on our computer, either from the desktop or from our file finder.
Go to ‘Archive’
Once we are in our Word, Excel or PowerPoint document, we look at the option that appears in the upper left corner of the screen, called ‘File’ in the menu above. We will click on ‘File’, which will change us to a tab with several options on the left side.
Choose ‘Office Account’
Once we are in the new tab that appears at click on the ‘File’ option we will see that on the left side of the screen there is a column with several options. We will click on the option that says ‘account’ or ‘Office account’, which will take us to the ‘Account’ tab.
Click on ‘About’
Once we have access to the account tab, we can see that on the right side of the screen, there is an option box called ‘about’. This option can be ‘About Word’ or ‘About Excel’ etc., it will depend on the program where we perform these steps.
Now, we will click on the ‘About’ option, which will open a pop-up window showing the terms and conditions of the application, as well as will tell us the version that we are using from that program.
How do I view the version without starting the Office app?
Being able to know which version of Microsoft Office is open without having to open any application of this is something possible, and quite simple if you follow the correct procedure. The first thing we need to do is locate ourselves in our file browser.
Open the file browser
The first step we need to take to find out what version of our Microsoft Office is available is to go to File Explorer. We can access the file browser from the Windows icon in the lower left corner of our screen.
Search for ‘WINWORD.EXE’
Once you have accessed the file browser, enter the Winword.exe command in the file browser search engine. This should show us a Word file named Winword.
View release date from ‘properties’
Once we have located the Word document with the name Winword when looking for it in our file browser, we will proceed to right click on it, a new window will open with several options.
Among the options shown to us, we will click on the one that says ‘Properties’, this will open a new window showing all the data in the file, as well as the version of Office that we have on our computer. This is the way to power know which version of Microsoft Office you have our computer without having to open any of the Microsoft Office applications or programs.
