Office200 vs Office2002 vs Office2003 - should we upgrade?

[ship]

Hi

We are thinking of upgrading from Office2000 to either Office2002 or
Office2003.

From the Access-specific threads I have contacted there seems to be no

significant advantage to upgrading Access2000.

From what I can gather versions 2002 and 2003 certainly seem no more

reliable, nor any faster running.


But what about msOutlook2002/3 versus msOutlook2000?

We use Outlook together with Access to mailshot our database
(dabasesize c.30K) but it seem incredibly slow and buggy when creating
the outgoing emails.
Error messages keep being thrown etc requiring frequent
user-interventions.

Also, I use Outlook on 2 different machines in 2 different locations
and have to copy all my emails (i.e. the "mailbox.pst" file) between
the two machines.

The trouble is one of my machines is Office2002 and the rest of the
office is Office2000. And the email organising RULES keep getting
corrupted when I copy the pst file over.

We are a small company (of c. 10) and are now totally dependant on the
Access database. So upgrading to msOffice 2002 (cheaper) or msOffice
2003 (latest version...) would be a big risk for us...


==> Any advice?


Ship
Shiperton Henethe


P.S. ALSO I now receive about 500 spam emails PER DAY, and even my
Outlook2002 machine seems to grind to a hault and run VERY VERY slowly
when it has to download more than about 200 emails at once. Rumour has
it that Outlook2003 is better in this regard.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Office 2003 includes vast improvements in Outlook, including a built-in junk mail filter, and will be supported longer than Office 2002.

You should start a new thread detailing any Outlook-related error messages you're seeing. There may be solutions.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[DL]

It has been stated the OL is the 'killer app' in Office2003
Be aware that an OL2003 pst (In unicode format is not accessible by earlier
versions of OL)

Access DB 30kb? a typo? is it split - front end/backend
my small db is 26mb

With regard spam, personally all my mail is routed through my own domain,
the provider supplies v.efficient spam filters. At one time someones pc, who
had my email add was being used as a remote, I received some 2k emails/day
my domain mail filters blocked all but a handfull