Help re. MS Office 365

Maidhci

I am currently running MS Office Home and Business 2013, purchased along with a laptop in 2015. It appears that there may be a problem accessing Gmail via Outlook 2013 at some stage soon - recent email from Google advising of this fact. Therefore, I am considering moving to a MS Office 365 Personal subscription, rather than purchasing Outlook 2019 outright - current cost €149, whether this is a good idea or not, I really don't know - any ideas? I am wondering, in the event that I purchase MS Office 365 Personal subscription, current cost €69.00/annum, is it a simple installation, where current files are overwritten or will I need to uninstall the current MS Home and Business beforehand? Are there any other issue to consider, such as file compatibility, particularly Excel and Word files etc. etc. Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058237054/help-re-ms-office-365

a problem accessing Gmail via Outlook 2013 at some stage soon - recent email from Google advising of this fact

Any more details on this? A quick web search doesn't throw anything up, and I'd be surprised if Google were doing anything like that

Maidhci

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118774018#Comment_118774018

This is the relevant part of the email text:

On May 30, you may lose access to apps that are using less secure sign-in technology

To help keep your account secure, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. Instead, you’ll need to sign in using or other more secure technologies, like OAuth 2

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Ah yes, I did know about that change, I'd already switched away from it. You don't actually need to upgrade Outlook, you can use "App Passwords": https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833. These are single-use passwords that can be used for less-secure apps.

BTW, you should remove the "Sign in with Google" link from your last post - the link contains your full email address

smuggler.ie

Both links

Just in case you dont know how

Maidhci

Thanks - I did not think it was possible to sign in with Google when using earlier versions of Outlook, I will have a look at the article you linked and hopefully will be able to work out something. Thank you for highlighting that I had inadvertently and stupidly posted a link to my account - I copied part of the email test to notepad, thought I had removed the links and then posted to the Boards posting. I think it is removed now. Thanks again for your help.