Outlook 2000 running with Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2003

[Guest]

Hi,

I have been asked why I can't upgrade Word, Excel & PowerPoint to 2003, and
leave Outlook at the current 2000 version. I'm sure it can be done, but I am
very concerned that it will cause real config problems, and headaches for our
packaging team (we run Citrix Metaframe on Windows Server 2000, so all apps
are packaged).

The reason I have been asked is that a very old addin for Outlook causes
severe performance degradation in Outlook 2003. Instead of scrapping the
add-in, I have been asked to look into dropping the new Outlook (one option
of many).

I hope someone can offer some pros/cons for leaving Outlook at 2000, while
the rest of the suite is upgraded to 2003.

Cheers,
Meg.

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

One VERY big problem with upgrading Word to 2003 while leaving Outlook at
2000 is that Word 2003 cannot be used as the Outlook email editor for
Outlook 2000. Any chance there's a newer version of the add-in?

Hal
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[Guest]

Hi Hal,

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately the add-in can not be updated to an
Office 2003 compliant version for another 5 months. It's certainly a
difficult situation!

Meg.