Outlook 2003 and Word 2007

[Matt]

I have an Office 2007 package with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Accounting, and
Publisher as well as a seperate copy of Access 2007. My issue is that I do
not have Outlook 2007, and 2003 will not let me use Word 2007 as my text
editor. Is there any way around this without buying Outlook 2007?

 

[Mary]

Versions must match to use Word. You can keep using OL 2003. Just use the
builtin editor. It's less of a resource hog and works fine.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have an Office 2007 package with Word, Excel, Powerpoint,
Accounting, and Publisher as well as a seperate copy of Access 2007.

Would that be the Home and Student suite?

My issue is that I do not have Outlook 2007, and 2003 will not let me
use Word 2007 as my text editor. Is there any way around this
without buying Outlook 2007?

I've seen one report where installing Home and Student 2007 over the top of
Office 2003 Professional allowed Outlook 2003 to use Word 2007 as the
editor. Usually, however, mixed version suites don't integrate.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

If that "report" was mine, I didn't say I could use Word 2007. I said it
wasn't an issue. I can't use Word, of course. The installation of Home and
Student simply recognizes that fact, resets Outlook 2003 to use its own
editor, and disables the option to use Word as an Editor in Tools >
Options...

 

[Brian Tillman]

If that "report" was mine, I didn't say I could use Word 2007.

I must have misread it.

I said
it wasn't an issue. I can't use Word, of course. The installation of
Home and Student simply recognizes that fact, resets Outlook 2003 to
use its own editor, and disables the option to use Word as an Editor
in Tools > Options...

Well, you said that mail merges work, so that implies to me that the Word
integration remains viable and you said that yourself. Now, perhaps what
you were saying is that if you start a mail merge from within Word, that you
can access the Outlook Address Book, but you also said that a merge from
within Outlook also worked and I thought that required Word to start. It
seems I don't understand what you were saying.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Mail merges do work. That was my point. It's the first time since Outlook 98
that I've seen some Outlook/Word integration persist even with a version
mismatch.

 

[jaideepkandari251]

I have an Office 2007 package with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Accounting, and
Publisher as well as a seperate copy of Access 2007. My issue is that I do
not have Outlook 2007, and 2003 will not let me use Word 2007 as my text
editor. Is there any way around this without buying Outlook 2007?
--
-Matt

"The only thing worse than an employee that just quits and leaves, is an
employee that quits and doesn''t leave."