OneNote 2007 and Office/Outlook 2003

[damo]

Hi,

I want to work with OneNote 2007 and Office/Outlook 2003. Is there an
official position on whether this is recommended? Or works?

I guess I would uprade Office to 2007 but then how is compatibility
with Office 2003 which all my collegues/clients are on?

Thanks in advance,.

Damo

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

I want to work with OneNote 2007 and Office/Outlook 2003. Is there an

official position on whether this is recommended? Or works?

There are several people in here who use OneNote together with Outlook
2003. Maybe one of them can give some feedback on how well this works?

I guess I would uprade Office to 2007 but then how is compatibility
with Office 2003 which all my collegues/clients are on?

The only program that is critical for working together with OneNote is
Outlook. So you only would have to upgrade that one, and could stay with
the rest of the suite at the 2003 level.
The rest of 2007 suite has new file formats, but you can set it so that
it never uses them. However, the UI is completely different in those
programs, so that could become an issue. I suggest you find out online
more about Office 2007 (you can start with my website e.g.) and then
decide what to do.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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[Grant Robertson]

I want to work with OneNote 2007 and Office/Outlook 2003. Is there an
official position on whether this is recommended? Or works?

I use ON 07 but everything else is 03. It works fine. I have had a few
times after updates where there was a battle going on as to who's updates
would overwrite who's. But it has settled out. I don't use the heavy
integration between OneNote and Outlook so I couldn't tell you if there
are any major bugs there. I have tried some of the things and they seem
to work. They just don't interest me.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Patrick Schmid [MVP] shared these words of wisdom:

There are several people in here who use OneNote together with
Outlook 2003. Maybe one of them can give some feedback on how well
this works?

ON 2007 itself does not have problem if Outlook 2003 is used.
And Outlook 2003 is not showing any problems if ON 2007 is used.

BUT (there always is a but) working with the ON features and Outlook
features in ON does *not* work if there is a version mis-match.

So I would support your suggestion to update Outlook to 2007 and leave
alone the rest of Office.

Rainald