Office 2003 Trial version conflict

[MikeA]

I purchased a new Compaq 8000z and it came pre-installed with a trial version of MS Office 2003 Apps. As I didn't plan on using it I installed my own version of Office XP. However when I started Outlook for the first time and tried to create a message (using Word as my email editor) - I got the message - "this form requires Word as your email editor but word is either busy or can not be found". I went to the MS Knowledge Base and found an article (319796) that appears to address a similar problem when someone might be upgrading from a prior version of Office to Office XP. But it doesn't directly address this "backward" compatibility issue - and I'm not sure if I just add/remove the Office 2003 trial program whether this issue will go away? Any thoughts?

 

[DL]

One thought; You can only run/install a single version of OL.
I'm unsure whether you can in fact actually install a second version.

I purchased a new Compaq 8000z and it came pre-installed with a trial

version of MS Office 2003 Apps. As I didn't plan on using it I installed my
own version of Office XP. However when I started Outlook for the first time
and tried to create a message (using Word as my email editor) - I got the
message - "this form requires Word as your email editor but word is either
busy or can not be found". I went to the MS Knowledge Base and found an
article (319796) that appears to address a similar problem when someone
might be upgrading from a prior version of Office to Office XP. But it
doesn't directly address this "backward" compatibility issue - and I'm not
sure if I just add/remove the Office 2003 trial program whether this issue
will go away? Any thoughts?