Outlook 2003 vs Office 2007

[Vicki]

I have Outlook 2003 installed on my laptop, along with the student/home
version of Office 2007. Is there a way to get my Outlook's Mail Format to
accept the 2007? I don't have the editing capabilities I used to, and my
signatures and some formatting seem to be lost.

(I used to have the full trial version of Outlook 2007 installed and have
since uninstalled and decided to just have the student version, along w/ my
previous 2003 Outlook. Was this a mistake?)

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]]

While Outlook 2003 will function nicely along side with Office 2007, you
lose Office integration. In this case, you lose the ability to use Word as
Outlook's email editor. To get that back, you either need to revert to
Office 2003 or update Outlook to 2007.

Hal
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[Vicki]

Thank you! That's what I was afraid of.

Vicki

While Outlook 2003 will function nicely along side with Office 2007, you
lose Office integration. In this case, you lose the ability to use Word as
Outlook's email editor. To get that back, you either need to revert to
Office 2003 or update Outlook to 2007.

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

 

[Steve JORDI]

Frankly, I would be you, I would keep 2003
2007 has sluggish performances.
If you open it and it points to an html formatted message,
you're up for at least 2 minutes of wait before you actually
can work with it (because it uses that ugly Word rendering
in the background). This is on a fresh install machine using
XP and Office 2007 on a Core2 Duo at 2.6Ghz.

While Outlook 2003 will function nicely along side with Office 2007, you
lose Office integration.

If you need it, then make the move to Outlook 2007

In this case, you lose the ability to use Word as Outlook's email editor.

I was about to tell you to stick to 2003 because of that.
Well, I would think you will GAIN the abaility NOT TO USE word as your
mail editor if you don't switch to 2007. This move is beyond
comprehension for any professional.
If you're sending HTML formatted messages with CSS and images, then
avoid 2007 at all cost.

As often with MicroSoft, what they call improvements and upgrades are
often downgrades.



Sincerely,
Steve JORDI

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