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Office 2003, Outlook 2003 and Win Vista

Dec 4, 2010 1:27AM PST

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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Correction to post...
Dec 4, 2010 1:37AM PST

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".

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Re: Word
Dec 4, 2010 3:32AM PST

If detect and repair doesn't help, get your CD and reinstall Word. That should fix it.

Kees

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Re: Word
Dec 4, 2010 3:59AM PST

I was hoping I didn't have to do that but what the heck!

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Re: reinstalling Word
Dec 4, 2010 4:04AM PST

That takes 10 or 15 minutes. Hardly a nuisance.

Kees

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Upgrade to Outlook 2010?
Dec 4, 2010 4:06AM PST

I was thinking about upgrading MS Outlook to the 2010 version. Since I already have MS Office 2003 installed and Outlook 2003 is automatically installed with that version, I was wondering if I could get Outlook 2010 and install that over the 2003 version? Anyone know if I can do the with no problems?

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Re: upgrade
Dec 4, 2010 8:03PM PST

Should be possible.

Kees

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Problem solved...
Dec 7, 2010 9:08AM PST

The problem was a software installation for a Label Printer. Everthing is working fine as it was before. Thanks for all the input.