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by boxfiddler

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I have recently installed Office 2007 sans Outlook 07 on my secondary hard drive. I have Office 2003 on the primary. I need both suites, unfortunately for another couple of semesters at which point I can remove 2003.

My problem is that whenever I have been working in one of the 07 programs, Outlook 03 acts up when I open it to collect my mail. I have had to use the "repair" function for Outlook 03 twice today, since the install and use of 07 programs.

I suspect that some registry entries are funky, but don't know for sure. If this is likely, any advice on which ones to fiddle with will be appreciated. If my suspicions are goofy, any thoughts and ideas regarding the problem will also be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

Edited to add: OS is WinXP SP2

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by oh smeg

Currently because of Backward Compatibility issues Office 2007 isn't ready for general use as the output needs to be saved into a different format than the native one or it is not always possible to read it on the older versions of Office or any other Office product.

This is part of the new Security where Office 2007 attempts to control everything on the computer and causes any prior versions of Office to become non responsive when opened. If you need 2007 Office you should setup a Dual Boot Option and have a different Office Product for each install that way it seems to work properly. Though you still have the backward compatibility issue.

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by boxfiddler Hot topic

for the info. O.07 certainly does want control. I'm having no problems with anything but Outlook 03. The rest of the 03 Office Suite behaves itself. Though I have had to use the file options to force Windows to open things in 03 rather than 07. I'll keep hunting for the solution to the Outlook problem.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

uninstalling Word 07 solved the Outlook problems.

by john ericson

That makes sense as I believe that Outlook is using Word somehow when you are composing a new e-mail, perhaps through COM?

On my Office 2003 installation I can see that the Winword.exe process is running when Outlook 2003 (outlook.exe) is running.

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