Outlook Bus Contact Mgr 2003 and Vista Ultimate

[Ed Boyd (seaboyd]

I currently have Outlook 2007 loaded on to Vista Ultimate. Can I uninstall
Outlook 2007 and install Outlook 2003 with Bus Contact Manager? Why would I
want to do that? ...because I'm not in the mood to shell out another $149
just to get the contact manager 2007. If there was a way to upgrade to
Outlook 2007 w/BCM for say $75 more, I'd do it. The sys requirements for the
2003 software says Win XP Svs PK 1 or better. That may be so but then I may
find out that I can't get any of the old 2007 data to import to 2003 or some
surprise like that? If I can use the 2003 Outlook and pull in a backed up
*.pst file....great. Thanks for your help!

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

Yes, that should work fine. Outlook 2007 and 2003 both use the newer
Unicode .PST file format, so there will be no need to import anything. I
include this for reference only:

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/downgradefromoutlook2003.htm
Outlook 2003: Reverting back to /Being compatible with a previous version of
Microsoft Office Outlook

Again, the words in this article on .PST file formats will NOT apply because
both 2003 and 2007 file formats are identical.

Hal
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