Installing Outlook 2003 over Outlook 2002?

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Chad Harris

In two scenarios, what is best practice in terms of saving Outlook emails,
calendar configurations and tweaks to the calendar , and any other changes
or changes you've made? Have Office XP Pro and Win XP Pro SP1, OE6SP1, IE6
SP1.

1) Installing Office 2003 Pro or Standard or Student with Office XP Pro in.
2) Installing Outlook 2003 as a stand alone with Office XP in.

My concern is any special steps to preserve Outlook 2002. I've been advised
that you can install Office 2003 *over* Office XP and you'll get the option
as to which components to save. But I'm not sure of the optimal way to
handle Outlook. Any advice that also touches on installing Office 2003 over
Office 2002 versus *uninstalling* would be appreciated.

Would appreciate some advice.

Thanks,

Chad Harris
 
You can not have two different Outlook versions installed. You can have two
different versions of Office installed, but you'll need to use Outlook 2003.
It's better to dual boot if you need more than one office program installed
(or use vmware), but if you set the install path to another folder, it will
leave the older office installs alone - except for Outlook.

To install only outlook over an existing office version, choose custom setup
and uncheck all of the other apps. Be aware that you won't be able to use
word as your editor or email enabled features of the other office products
since the versions must match for those features to work.

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