Outlook 2003 and Office XP and Office Assistant

[mzubler]

Hi,
I installed Outlook 2003 as part of an install of Office 2003. I did not
want to override my Office XP programs so all of those programs are still
installed as well. The only thing I was forced to do was install over
Outlook XP. That was OK. But I cannot seem to get my office assistant to
change from the paper clip to something else in Outlook 2003. And I get an
error when trying to get office assistant to come up in the older programs,
Excel XP, Word XP, etc. Anyone know how I can fix this?
Thanks in advance,
Margie

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The same question was posted about 5 post back;

Only one Office Assistant version can load a time. If you close Outlook 2003
and restart Word 2000 the Office Assistant should work again (it probably
gets reconfigured first)

To get more Office Assistants you'll need to choose these during setup or
choose for a Complete Install.

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[mzubler]

So you're saying that it reverts back to the original because I'm flipping
between the two versions, XP and 2003. I can understand that. I checked
again and the error message is coming up in the 2003 versions of Excel and
Word and Access that it cannot find the Office Assistant at all. Then I
opened Outlook 2003 and the Assistant was there and then the Excel 2003
could find it also. Sounds like I have to live with this until I can move
to just the one version.
Thanks for your help.