Correction to post. The second sentence SHOULD READ: Recently when I started MS Outlook 2003 and hit "new email" a message came up regarding "MS Office Word" is no longer present or faulted, etc." I mistakenly typed "MS Outlook" rather than "MS Office Word".
I have been running MS Office 2003 with Outlook 2003 on my Win Vista system for years with no problem. Recently when I started Outlook 2003 and hit "new email" a message came up regarding "MS Outlook is no longer present or faulted, etc." I ran the "detect and repair" several times but the issue still persists. In Outlook I had MS Office 2003 set as my email editor but since the error every time I check that box and start a new email the error comes up. Upon checking to see if MS Office 2003 is still set as the email editor, the box becomes unchecked.
Since Detect and Repair doesn't fix the problem, if I use the MS Office CD, would it let me install ONLY MS Office (and may Outlook) without messing up the other programs included in the suite which are running just fine?
P.S. I can still use MS Outlook but NOT with MS Office 2003 set as the email editor and I've done it this way for years. A complete reinstall would be my last resort.

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