Upgrading to Publisher 2007, while in Office 2003 SP2

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Jeff Hendrick

My question is in 3 parts:
- Can I upgarde to Publisher 2007 only, while still using the other
applications within Office 2003? if so, will I be able to email a Publisher
2007 document through Outlook 2003 (as I am able to with Publisher 2003)?
- I have purchased Office 2007 Professional Upgrade, and am curious to know
if I can limit my upgrade (using custom installation options) to Publisher
2007 only, or do I have to purchase a Publisher 2007 stand alone version?
- I installed, but did not activate, a recently purchased version of Office
2007 Professional (Upgrade) to test it with other software and found:
- Symantec WinFax Pro 10.02 will no longer recognize Outlook contacts,
for
use in faxing from Office 2003 applications (absolutely necessary for
me)
- WinFax Pro macros are no longer picked up by 2007 Excel, Word.
- Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 add-ins are not registered.
I cloned an old hard drive to test Office 2007 prior to counting on it...

Any input would be apprciated
 
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JoAnn Paules

Yes, you can upgrade Publisher alone.

No, you cannot email a Pub 2007 doc with Outlook 2003.

Yes, you could get Office Pro and only upgrade Publisher but that sounds
like a tremendous waste of money.

I don't fax anything so I can't help there.

Acrobat is not fully compatible with Office 2007 or Vista yet. v8 was
released before those products so testing is still underway. A patch for v8
is scheduled for sometime mid-year. Earlier versions of Acrobat will not be
patched.
 
J

Jeff Hendrick

JoAnn:

Thanks for the reply. My issues were discovered after I had already
purchased the Office Pro upgrade, cloned my laptop hard drive, and tried it -
without the fear of an unresolved conflict.

- Regards, Jeff Hendrick
 
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Ed Bennett

JoAnn said:
Yes, you could get Office Pro and only upgrade Publisher but that sounds
like a tremendous waste of money.
Click to expand...

....when compared to the price of either a Publisher upgrade or even a
standalone copy of Publisher...
I don't fax anything so I can't help there.
Click to expand...

Bug Symantec for a new version of WinFax. Don't hold your breath though,
as Symantec is a pain in the proverbials.
Acrobat is not fully compatible with Office 2007 or Vista yet. v8 was
released before those products so testing is still underway. A patch for
v8 is scheduled for sometime mid-year. Earlier versions of Acrobat will
not be patched.
Click to expand...

....but Office 2007 does come with its own PDF add-in that is more
reliable than Adobe's offering.
 
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Chuck Davis

I don't understand the comment that Acrobat is not compatible with Office
2007. I have been using Office 2007 since January 30, 2007 with Adobe
Acrobat 6.0 to produce .pdf for e-mailing our clubs news letter. However,
it is not an add-in, just a printer driver. Even primopdf and win2pdf work
in the same manner.
 
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JoAnn Paules

I prefer something that will allow me to create .pdf files regardless of the
application plus I often have the need to edit .pdf files, create
interactive forms, and combine/split .pdf files.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
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DavidF

I don't understand JoAnn's response. I can email a Publisher 2007 document
as a message in OE6, so I see no reason why you should not be able to use
Pub 2007 with Outlook 2003 as you did with Pub 2003. I have read that while
you can generally run multiple versions of Office on the same computer, you
cannot run multiple versions of Outlook. You might try a custom install of
Office 2007 without Outlook 2007, although Symantic has never played well
with Office, and you might get other conflicts.

DavidF
 
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DavidF

Surely that can't be true? I don't use Outlook, but didn't Pub 2003 require
Outlook 2002 or newer (and OE5 or newer)? Are you saying that if I were to
upgrade Pub 2003 by buying and installing Pub 2007 only, and use Outlook
2003 as my default email client, that I would loose the ability to email a
Publisher email publication as a message using Outlook 2003...or even
Outlook 2002? Is this perhaps just the case for the new email merge function
that is available with Pub 2007, rather than just sending one message?
Surely MSFT would not hobble Pub 2007 like that...tell me it ain't so...

What about using the new email client that comes with Vista and replaced OE?
Does that work?

DavidF
 
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Chuck Davis

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DavidF

If what JoAnn says is true, then perhaps you should look for an alternative
to Winfax. Or since you have the ability to cloan your old setup, try
installing just Pub 2007 with a custom install, and test it. I don't have
Outlook 2003 installed, and would be curious about your results. I can't
imagine why MSFT would strip away the email as a message function from
Outlook 2003 if you upgrade to Pub 2007, while OE still works, but...

DavidF
 
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Jeff Hendrick

Symantec has divested itself from WinFax Pro, so that is not an option. MS
Vista Business & Ultimate Operating Systems have a full fax program, but will
create other AutoCAD and program conflict issues.

My next attempt will be Publisher 2007 Upgrade to Office 2003. I want the
enhanced wide format printing capabilities in Publisher 2007...

- Regards, Jeff Hendrick
 
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JoAnn Paules

Yes, I am saying that you need matched versions if you want to use the Send
to feature to include the Publisher document in the body. As an attachment
is a different story.

I just checked on my old computer. It has Pub 2007 and Outlook Express
(Outlook as well but not the default program). I cannot send a Pub 2007 file
in the body of an email on that computer. The option does not even exist. On
this computer I can do that with Pub 2003 or 2007 with Outlook. I have
Windows Mail but it's not the default program. Since it's the latest version
there is no version of Publisher newer than it to test it out.


From http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA010743381033.aspx re: Pub
2003 (near the bottom)
"To send a single page as an e-mail message or to preview it before sending,
you must have Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook Express
(version 5.x or 6.0) installed on your computer. "

Please not that it doesn't mention previous versions of Outlook.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
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DavidF

Thanks. I do know that you can send as a message using OE6 from both Pub
2003 and 2007...been there and done that. And if you follow the link that
Mary provided it also says that you can. As per not being able to send as a
message using Outlook 2003 from Pub 2007, that's a shame.

DavidF
 
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JillW

I don't know about sending Publisher emails through Outlook 2003, because now
that I've installed a trial version of Pub.07, I can't even get Outlook to
open.

Any advice?
 

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