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Using Outlook 2000 instead of 2002 Win2000Pro OfficeXp

Trouble with O2002 from OfficeXp install on Win2000 Pro has wanting to use O2000 instead. What is best way to install (we have Office 2000 and XP)? Add XP with no Outlook, then add Outlook 2000 from Office 2000? Clean build of Windows starting from.

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Finally tried it, but no luck with suggested approach. However installing Outlook 2000 first and then XP appears to work. Any issues with doing it this way I should know about?

rjcpjc

What were the errors? There shouldn't be any issues with doing it either way.

MeJane

Don't know if this helps, but basically, Outlook 2000 and OLXP won't run on the same machine. However, you can run one of each of all the other apps in XP. I recommend not installing OLXP or telling it to take the place of OL2K. I have XP but chose not to upgrade/install Outlook or FrontPage. At least not yet.

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MeJane -
We didn't tell XP to take 2000's place, not exactly. Only installed Outlook 2000 from Office CD, then installed XP WITHOUT Outlook. Is that what you mean by "run one of each of all the other apps in XP?"

rjcpjc

I think what MeJane means is that you can install both Word 2000 and Word 2002 on the same machine and get both of them to run (usually without issues). Same goes for Excel, Access, Powerpoint. SAme is not true for Outlook.

You can only have one version of Outlook installed at any given time.