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Back to the original question about Office 2013 to 2016. I have a subscription to Office 365, at the time Office 2013 version, and upgraded to 2016 version with no additional cost. I installed and operate Office from my local PC, not the cloud. If you have an Office 365 account, you can go into your account, at office.com, and deactivate your current install. When you reinstall, it will automatically be the newer version.

I don’t know if this helps or I misunderstood the question of going from 2013 to 2016.

Merry Christmas to all.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

Paul T, I think you hit on something with that thought. The file “markers” on the OS drive were, at one minute, at 02/10 and after the restore, back at 01/31. When the PC was rebooted, the date went back to 02/10, but all of the file history markers were non-existent for that 01/31 to 02/10 time period. Like deleting a file, but it’s still physically on the drive.
I went into the File History drive via Windows Explorer and drilled down into the backed-up files and all of the “missing” files for that time period were still on the backup drive. They were all there, date & time stamped with time of backup info. They just weren’t being recognized by the OS drive registry, data table, or whatever keeps track of the files backed up each time file history runs.
So, bottom line is, they are there but the OS drive just can’t see them.

Thanks, Paul T, for the input.
Now to test the theory by trying to restore 1 file just for the heck of it.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

File history was working fine before the restore procedure on the OS drive. After restoring the OS drive, file history was still operating but all of the history between the restore date and the current date were missing. The file history, and drives, are still operating fine. Can not figure out why the history between those dates disappeared. The file history drive should not have been affected by the OS drive restore process. Any thoughts?

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

I have a couple of programs for which I created data folders, then added the folder to a created library, and File History takes care of the rest.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-