Using Outlook 2007 with Word/Excel 2003

[Guest]

We have an IMAP mail server and currently our default PST in Outlook 2003 is
the non-Unicode . This has a limit of 2 Gb.
Outlook 2007 by default uses Unicode which takes the PST limit up to 30 Gb.
Normally we have the Outlook client download headers and everything from the
mail server, but for those who are at the 2 Gb limit, this means that
everything slows to a crawl when they open a message as it and attachments
have to be downloaded from the server.
We don't want to move yet to full Office 2007 because of the training
associated with the new interface etc.
I've read in this discussion group that you can't use Word 2007 with Outlook
2003, but has anyone successfully run Outlook 2007 with the remainder of the
Office 2003 suite(s) or at the minimum Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
John Batterham

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've read in this discussion group that you can't use Word 2007 with
Outlook 2003, but has anyone successfully run Outlook 2007 with the
remainder of the Office 2003 suite(s) or at the minimum Word 2003 and
Excel 2003.

It won't work. Word and Outlook must be the same versions.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I wouldn't be so sure. If Outlook 2007 is installed without Word 2007, it will still have the mini-Word .dll that it needs for the editor. I think this mixed configuration will work fine for creating and sending messages. What won't work is mail merge from Outlook and other deep Word integration features.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[davewill]

I am in a situation due to another piece of software that integrates with
Excel that I have to stay at Office 2003 when everyone that doesn't need this
extra software has been upgraded to Office 2007. They have put us on the
webaccess version of Outlook as a fix. I hate it and want the full version.
If anyone finds out that this is possible please let me know.
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Thanks,

davewill