Outlook 2003 and Office 2007 (home & Student)

[Guest]

I intend to get Office 2007 (Home & Student version), and woul like to know
if I can continue using Outlook 2003 with it as the 2007 Home and Student
version does not come with Outlook?
Will word 2007 be compatible as the text editor to Outlook 2007?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Yes, and yes, although the second yes is moot.

 

[Guest]

So then how do you get Outlook 2003 to use Word 2007 as its editor?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You don't - Outlook and Word versions must always match to use Office Automation like mail merge and "send to."

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After furious head scratching, tra757200 asked:

| So then how do you get Outlook 2003 to use Word 2007 as its editor?
|
| "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| Yes, and yes, although the second yes is moot.
||
|| Old frenchie wrote:
||
||| I intend to get Office 2007 (Home & Student version), and woul like
||| to know if I can continue using Outlook 2003 with it as the 2007
||| Home and Student version does not come with Outlook?
||| Will word 2007 be compatible as the text editor to Outlook 2007?don

 

[Dave-BDV]

OK, I can't use Word 2007 for Wordmail in Outlook 2003, but can I continue to
use Word 2003 for Outlook Word based email, while using Word 2007 for regular
Word editing?

I installed Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
over Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) (I don’t
need / can’t afford Outlook 2007)
I would however like to continue to use Word 2003 as my email editor.
BTW, I used “custom upgrade†when installing the 2007 SW – I think upgrade
way the only choice.

When I try to compose an email now I get the following error:
Microsoft Word is set to be your e-mail editor. However, Word is
unavailable, not installed, or is not the same version as Outlook. The
Outlook e-mail editor will be used instead.

Word 2003 is still installed – both Word 2003 and 2007 work fine outside of
Outlook. In fact I can get my desired result (Word 2003 for Outlook email –
Word 2007 for everything else) by doing the following:
I do a “repair†of Office 2003 (from add/remove programs) – then reboot
although I don’t know that it matters… Then Word 2003 works in Outlook 2003.
After doing this, the first launch of Word 2007 goes through a “configuringâ€
stage – but after that it always starts normally. So at this point –
everything works the way I want it – So I know it can work. ---------- The
problem is, after a reboot, the error in Outlook 2003 (above) comes back.

So it must be that whatever Word 2007 does when it starts up, part of it
(the part that breaks Outlook 2003) does not take effect till the next
reboot.

So given I can get it working, (prior to reboot), there has got to be some
registry hack I could run to get it into this state again after a reboot –
right? HELP!

Thanks,

One other piece of information in case it helps… Running this:
Regsvr32.exe %Windir%\System32\Ole32.dll
When I have the Outlook error will fit it, but in this case, it breaks again
as soon as I start Word 2007

--
\Dave

You don't - Outlook and Word versions must always match to use Office Automation like mail merge and "send to."

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, tra757200 asked:

| So then how do you get Outlook 2003 to use Word 2007 as its editor?
|
| "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| Yes, and yes, although the second yes is moot.
||
|| Old frenchie wrote:
||
||| I intend to get Office 2007 (Home & Student version), and woul like
||| to know if I can continue using Outlook 2003 with it as the 2007
||| Home and Student version does not come with Outlook?
||| Will word 2007 be compatible as the text editor to Outlook 2007?don

 

[Dave-BDV]

I installed Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
over Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) (I don’t
need / can’t afford Outlook 2007)
I would however like to continue to use Word 2003 as my email editor.
BTW, I used “custom upgrade†when installing the 2007 SW – I think upgrade
way the only choice.

When I try to compose an email now I get the following error:
Microsoft Word is set to be your e-mail editor. However, Word is
unavailable, not installed, or is not the same version as Outlook. The
Outlook e-mail editor will be used instead.

Word 2003 is still installed – both Word 2003 and 2007 work fine outside of
Outlook. In fact I can get my desired result (Word 2003 for Outlook email –
Word 2007 for everything else) by doing the following:
I do a “repair†of Office 2003 (from add/remove programs) – then reboot
although I don’t know that it matters… Then Word 2003 works in Outlook 2003.
After doing this, the first launch of Word 2007 goes through a “configuringâ€
stage – but after that it always starts normally. So at this point –
everything works the way I want it – So I know it can work. ---------- The
problem is, after a reboot, the error in Outlook 2003 (above) comes back.

So it must be that whatever Word 2007 does when it starts up, part of it
(the part that breaks Outlook 2003) does not take effect till the next
reboot.

So given I can get it working, (prior to reboot), there has got to be some
registry hack I could run to get it into this state again after a reboot –
right? HELP!

Thanks,
\Dave

One other piece of information in case it helps… Running this:
Regsvr32.exe %Windir%\System32\Ole32.dll
When I have the Outlook error will fit it, but in this case, it breaks again
as soon as I start Word 2007

--
\Dave

You don't - Outlook and Word versions must always match to use Office Automation like mail merge and "send to."

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, tra757200 asked:

| So then how do you get Outlook 2003 to use Word 2007 as its editor?
|
| "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| Yes, and yes, although the second yes is moot.
||
|| Old frenchie wrote:
||
||| I intend to get Office 2007 (Home & Student version), and woul like
||| to know if I can continue using Outlook 2003 with it as the 2007
||| Home and Student version does not come with Outlook?
||| Will word 2007 be compatible as the text editor to Outlook 2007?don