Installing freestanding Outlook 2007

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Running xp home, office 2003, Palm os Treo 680 w/BeyondContacts. Everything
works well!

BUT, really want the updated Outlook as I just about LIVE in it! Want to
upgrade ONLY the outlook to 2007 not full Office Suite (Will be moving from
Office to OpenOrg eventually)!

Are there any reported problems with doing this? What would be the 'best'
way? I wanted to download a 'free trial' of JUST outlook, but guesss there
isn't one???

TIA
 
spondee said:
Running xp home, office 2003, Palm os Treo 680 w/BeyondContacts.
Everything works well!

BUT, really want the updated Outlook as I just about LIVE in it! Want
to upgrade ONLY the outlook to 2007 not full Office Suite (Will be
moving from Office to OpenOrg eventually)!
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You can do this, but of course you'll do without any of the Office
integration features, like mail merge. I just saw Outlook 2007 at Best Buy
for $90. You could probably find it cheaper on line.
Are there any reported problems with doing this? What would be the
'best' way? I wanted to download a 'free trial' of JUST outlook, but
guesss there isn't one???
Click to expand...

Download the free trial of Office 2007 and install only the Outlook
component.
 
Thanks! Didn't know u could just install the Outlook portion of the 'trial'
Office. Will give it a try before I buy, that way will see is I 'miss' the
integration factor (don't think it will be a prob, but u never know).
 
spondee said:
Thanks! Didn't know u could just install the Outlook portion of the 'trial'
Office. Will give it a try before I buy, that way will see is I 'miss' the
integration factor (don't think it will be a prob, but u never know).
Click to expand...
 
I'm having a similar issue. I am running XP with Office 2003. I wanted to
keep Word and Excel 2003 for now. I purchased Office Standard 2007 and only
installed Outlook. The installation process deleted Outlook 2003 to install
2007. I got no error messages, it looked like the install was successful.
When I try to open Outlook, I get a pop up window "Configuring Outlook"
Migrating Account Settings. Then I get an error message "Connecting to
Microsoft Exchange - Microsoft Exchange is unavailable", with the options to
Retry, Work Offline, or Cancel. If I chose Retry or Work Offline, I get
"Cannot open your default e-mail folders. Your profile is not configured."
with the only option of OK. I click OK and Outlook closes.

I've uninstalled Office 2007/Outlook 2007; reinstalled Outlook 2003 (but now
it wont open either); and then reinstalled Office 2007 / Outlook 2007 - and
still get the same thing. The second time I also installed PowerPoint 2007
and it works fine.

Outlook Express is also loaded on the PC. It launches but I don't think it
is configured.

By the way, I just started working here a two months ago - don't think
Outlook 2003 was every setup and used - the only thing they did was scan
documents "to attach to email" so a new message window would pop up with the
attachment. They would open the attachment to save it in their folder, then
use Yahoo mail to send the attachment.
 
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