How to revert from office 2007 to office 2003 on XP

[RobGou]

Here's what I did and the problem I had

I had Office 2003 pro installed and installed Office 2007 beta, during the
installation, it removed 2003 pro.

Trial period is over, tried to remove 2007 beta, had several permission
error (even if I have XP home edition and only 1 user created) but went into
regedit and added permission and after about 1 hour, I was able to remove it

Installed 2003 pro, tried to start MS Outlook, but getting "Cannot start
Microsoft Offic OUtlook, MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or wrong version. This could
have been caused by installing other messaging software. Please reinstall
Outlook".

Removed office 2003 pro, use the office cleaner, re installed, no go,
removed office 2003 pro, renamed all the MAPI32.DLL files that I could find,
re installed, still no go. Anyone has any suggestion?

thanks for the help

 

[RobGou]

Here's what I did and it worked ...

checked to make sure that mapi32.dll was there in system32 folder and in the
\program files\commun files\system\msmapi\1033 folder

then renamed msmapi32.dll in that ...\msmapi\1033 folder to msmapi.dll.old

started Outlook 2003 and it did a repair and fix and I was able to run
Outlook 2003 again.

 

[Davis]

Hello,

I am in the process of migrating from Windows 98se thru Windows XP with
Upgrade to Windows Vista. Do you recommend Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007?

Davis
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[anmil1]

Open Windows Explorer
Locate and open the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Msmapi32\1033
Right click Msmapi32.dll file and click Rename.
Type Msmapi.old and then press ENTER to rename the file
Start Outlook 2003 and it should open.

If you can't find the file in Windows Explorer look for it in search and
follow the above instructions to rename the file.

Note; When you start Outlook 2003 again the program should repair itself.