using Entourage 2008 but keeping Word/Excel/PowerPoint 2004

[uwsrjk]

My Exchange host (Intermedia) offers a free download of Entourage 2008
with its small business hosted Exchange package. I am running Office
2004 for now. If I download just the Entourage application, will this
work even though the other Office applications are 2004? Should I do
anything with the Microsoft User Data folder or something else to
prevent file conflicts? If there's any chance of an issue I'll
probably just get the full 2008 suite so it's all consistent, but just
wanted to know. Thanks. --Russ, NYC

 

[Diane Ross]

My Exchange host (Intermedia) offers a free download of Entourage 2008
with its small business hosted Exchange package. I am running Office
2004 for now. If I download just the Entourage application, will this
work even though the other Office applications are 2004? Should I do
anything with the Microsoft User Data folder or something else to
prevent file conflicts? If there's any chance of an issue I'll
probably just get the full 2008 suite so it's all consistent, but just
wanted to know. Thanks. --Russ, NYC

Yes, it will work. The most complicated part is if you had the Home &
Student version of Office 2008 installed and then tried to update to the
hosted version of Entourage.

Inside the Microsoft User Data folder you can have Identity folders for
multiple versions. Each is stored in it's own folder.

If you run into any problems, let us know.

Currently, Entourage 2008 is at version 12.1.5. Depending on what version
they offer, you would only need the following updaters.

12.1.0 SP1 <--if you get 12.0.0
12.1.5 <-- if you get 12.1.0

Hope this helps!