Will my documents be saved when I upgrade to Mountain Lion OS X?

Hi. I am planning on upgrading to Mountain Lion OS X when it comes out in July. I have all the system and harware requirements. I have never done an upgrade before. Does anyone know: Will my MSword for Mac and iLife programs and everything still be on there? And will all my pictures and documents still be there? Or because of the upgrade will it be a completely new start? I am confused. Please help. Thanks

Before attempting any Major Upgrade... get yourself an External Hard Drive and create a Bootable Clone Backup of your current Hard Drive...
By far the easiest way to make a Backup, is to use something like
SuperDuper  http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
or CCC  http://www.bombich.com/
That way, should anything untowards happen during the Upgrade, you will LOSE NOTHING.

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