We just purchased a new laptop running Vista Business which came with a trial
version of Office 2007. Not ready to purchase 2007 yet, I uninstalled 2007
and installed Office 2003 instead. However, it will not load Outlook. It is
giving me an error stating that a data file does not exist and that I must
create it by going to Control Panel and Mail Setup. When attempting to add a
data file, I get the usual screen asking to select a type of storage, but
there are no options available. (It usually offers "Office Outlook Personal
Folders File" and "Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File").

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any suggestions to fix the problem?

have you set up the account in mail in control panel? You have to pick
exchange, pop3, etc first.

"rainrabbit" wrote:

> We just purchased a new laptop running Vista Business which came with a trial
> version of Office 2007. Not ready to purchase 2007 yet, I uninstalled 2007
> and installed Office 2003 instead. However, it will not load Outlook. It is
> giving me an error stating that a data file does not exist and that I must
> create it by going to Control Panel and Mail Setup. When attempting to add a
> data file, I get the usual screen asking to select a type of storage, but
> there are no options available. (It usually offers "Office Outlook Personal
> Folders File" and "Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File").
>
> Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any suggestions to fix the problem?

yes. I've set up a pop3 account. Still no options available when attempting
to add a data file. Even when clicking on the "new outlook data file"
button, there are no options to select for the "type of storage" dialog box.

"dlw" wrote:

> have you set up the account in mail in control panel? You have to pick
> exchange, pop3, etc first.
>
> "rainrabbit" wrote:
>
> > We just purchased a new laptop running Vista Business which came with a trial
> > version of Office 2007. Not ready to purchase 2007 yet, I uninstalled 2007
> > and installed Office 2003 instead. However, it will not load Outlook. It is
> > giving me an error stating that a data file does not exist and that I must
> > create it by going to Control Panel and Mail Setup. When attempting to add a
> > data file, I get the usual screen asking to select a type of storage, but
> > there are no options available. (It usually offers "Office Outlook Personal
> > Folders File" and "Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File").
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any suggestions to fix the problem?