MS Office Home & Student & Outlook 2003 Compatibility

[Andrew]

I recently installed MS Office Home & Student 2007 on a computer that already
had Outlook 2003 on it. MS Home & Student 2007 doesn't include Outlook in the
package which was fine with me because I already had oultook 2003. Well
installation was no problem and Outlook and the MS Office Home & Student
components are working fine. However, evertyime I startup Outlook and
everytime I receive a new e-mail then the installation wizard pops up and
says to wait a minute while MS Office Home and Student are configured. It is
crazy annoying because it takes a while for it to configure and I get quite a
few e-mails so it happens quite often. How do I make it stop doing this.
Thanks.

 

[mezzodiva]

Hi, Andrew,

Are you using Word as your e-mail editor? If so, what happens if you turn
that off?

 

[Andrew]

I'm not sure. How do I tell what is being used as my e-mail editor and if it
is Word how do I turn that off and what other options besides word would I
have to use as my e-mail editor?

 

[mezzodiva]

The other option is to use Outlook's native e-mail capability (the way it
would work if you didn't even have Word installed).

Check in Tools | Optione | Mail Format to see if the two Word checkboxes are
checked under "Message Format". Uncheck them and see if that resolves the
issue.