Where do I start writing Office (Word & Excel) Addins using VS 2013 Community?

First, I hope that I have selected the appropriate location for this message. If not I apologize. I am hoping that posting to the VSTO community will also cover the Word and Excel development groups.
Second, a word of explanation: I am partially handicapped (unable to use my left hand easily), and 73 years of age and retired, and due to medical prescriptions unable to respond as quickly as I might desire.
Consequently I may be tardy in responding to any messages sent to me.
SUBJECT: I currently have Office 2007 (and as a limited income retiree - find it impossible to upgrade to a newer version of Office) and would like to prepare/write some add-ins of the macros (VBA for both
Word and Excel) that I have used and developed over the years. When I retired I lost the opportunity to use advanced versions of Visual Studio and have been limited to the "Express" versions of Visual Studio. With the recent release of Visual
Studio 2013 Community there appears to be the possibility that I might be able to convert my macros and such to an add-in. Unfortunately, I haven't a clue where or even how to start.
I very much would appreciate any information, directions, suggestions, and ideas which might help me find a way to get started in providing an add-in which would span the various versions of Word and Excel between 2007 and the current version. (I am currently
running Windows 8.1 but must admit I am not terribly impressed.)
I might note that my primary language for programming has been VB (as in VBA). I am not opposed to learning C# but rewriting everything would be a bit more inefficient than I would like to tackle at this point in time.
If there is some generous soul who would be kind enough to point me toward articles, samples/examples, and ideas on how I might be able to create these add-ins of my macros and such I would be deeply appreciative.
NOTE: I realized only after making the original post that I forgot to ask whether I need to obtain a copy of VSTO or whether the capabilities of VSTO had been incorporated into Visual Studio 2013 Community.
David Schrader
[email protected]
David (Whose retirement hasn't been as exciting as I was lead to believe it would be.)

Hello David,
Out of the box the Community edition of VS doesn't include VSTO templates. You have to install
http://aka.ms/OfficeDevToolsForVS2013 to get them appear. In general, the Community edition corresponds to the Professional one (paid one). So, you can start developing add-ins in VB.NET. See
Create Add-ins and Customizations for Office by using Visual Studio for more information.

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