Outlook 2002 with Office 97

[Mark]

I purchased Outlook 2002 to upgrade from Outlook 2000. The
listing of requirements and recommendations on the book
list "Collaboration features compatible with Office 97 or
later." After I installed Outlook (which was difficult)I
tried to do a mail merge and I get a message like; To
complete this function your version of Word must match
your version of Outlook. Is this true? If so I would not
have upgraded my Outlook. I don't want to upgrade my
Office application. In the options listing the "use Word
as your email editor" is grayed out so I can't check it. I
am running Windows 98SE. Can anyone help me get Outlook to
run with Word 97?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Yes, this is true. Features that involve other Office programs, such as WordMail and mail merge, generally require matching versions. If you have Word 97, then only Outlook 98 should be able to use WordMail with that version of Word.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm