Use Word 2007 to edit Outlook 2003?

[tfall]

I have Word 2007 from the teacher and student edition, so it did not come
with Outlook 2007. I use Outlook 2003 from an earlier package. I would like
to use Word as my email editor, but when I go to Outlook's Tools/Options/Mail
Format tab the boxes say Word 2003 and are grayed out; there is no option for
Word 2007, nor a way to click on Word 2003.

Is there a way to use Word as my email editor?

Thanks,
tfall

 

[Russ Valentine]

No. Version must match. It has been ever thus.

 

[VanguardLH]

I have Word 2007 from the teacher and student edition, so it did not come
with Outlook 2007. I use Outlook 2003 from an earlier package. I would like
to use Word as my email editor, but when I go to Outlook's Tools/Options/Mail
Format tab the boxes say Word 2003 and are grayed out; there is no option for
Word 2007, nor a way to click on Word 2003.

Integration features only work when the versions are matched.

Is there a way to use Word as my email editor?

Although you can separately purchase Outlook 2007, the standalone version
will be missing integration features with components that were in the Office
2007 product. I'm not sure which integration features are lost with the
standlone version install.

See if you can return the H&S edition of Office 2007 to get another edition
that DOES include Outlook 2007. Or revert to Office 2003 since all of its
editions included Outlook 2003 (I got my Office 2003 for just $40 on eBay
but after searching for many months and skipping the iffy sellers to ensure
that I got a legitimate copy).

 

[tfall]

Thanks much

Integration features only work when the versions are matched.


Although you can separately purchase Outlook 2007, the standalone version
will be missing integration features with components that were in the Office
2007 product. I'm not sure which integration features are lost with the
standlone version install.

See if you can return the H&S edition of Office 2007 to get another edition
that DOES include Outlook 2007. Or revert to Office 2003 since all of its
editions included Outlook 2003 (I got my Office 2003 for just $40 on eBay
but after searching for many months and skipping the iffy sellers to ensure
that I got a legitimate copy).
.

 

[tfall]

Thanks much

No. Version must match. It has been ever thus.
--
Russ Valentine


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