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Hi,<br />
I have a new client who uses Windows XP with Office 2003. &nbsp;His Outlook will not open. &nbsp;The only way for Outlook to open, albeit slowly, is to first open Word and type something on a blank page, then Outlook can be opened<br />
Any ideas on how this can be solved (other than installing newer versions)<br />
Thanks<br />
Jeannie
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Hi,
I have a new client who uses Windows XP with Office 2003.  His Outlook will not open.  The only way for Outlook to open, albeit slowly, is to first open Word and type something on a blank page, then Outlook can be opened
Any ideas on how this can be solved (other than installing newer versions)
Thanks
Jeannie

outlook 2003 won't open

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.

Outlook

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.