outlook 2000 and word 2002 (office 2000)

[jonmil]

My new machine came with XP and word 2002 but I want to use my existing Office 2000 for outlook powerpoint etc.. Outlook won't let me use word 2002 to edit text in messages. Is there a way around this without shelling out for outlook 2002?

TIA

[Mike Hurley]

John

Sorry, but no, if the version of Outlook and the version of Word are not the same then most of the cross-application functionality like letters wizard etc won't function.

Your choices are either to shell out for Outlook 2002 or to downgrade your copy of word to 2000.

[jonmil]

Thanks Mike. Disappointed but not surprised.