What Are the Minimum System Requirements Needed on My Computer for Office?

It depends on your specific computer and operating system. The minimum system requirements for each product are located in the software product descriptions. To check your computer’s current specifications, go to My Computer (or look for the Computer icon on your desktop or from the Start menu) and right-click on it, and select Properties from that menu.

For instance, we are going to show here two distinct MS Office version to present the difference between them. 

MS Office 2010 System Requirements

These are minimum system requirements for installing Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student

• Processor - 500MHz or higher
• Memory - 256MB (minimum), 512MB (recommended)
• HDD - 3GB available space
• OS - Windows XP SP3 or higher

Microsoft Office 2019 Professional System Requirements

These are minimum system requirements for installing Microsoft Office 2019 Professional

• Computer and processor: 1.6 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, 2-core.

• Memory: 4 GB RAM; 2 GB RAM (32-bit)

• Hard disk: 4.0 GB of available disk space

• Display: 1280 x 768 screen resolution

• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).

• Operating system: Windows 10, Windows Server 2019