You would definitely need to uninstall Office 2007 before installing an
older version. I have no idea what a "preview install" is. If you have
further issues they are with your OEM. Office 2003 will install on Vista
just fine.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"M C Hamster" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:57:55 -0500, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

Be prepared to be disappointed. Rarely does WET work well for Outlook.
Make
sure you keep a safe copy of your Outlook PST file and be prepared to
create
a new Outlook profile and use that file when WET doesn't work. Your
accounts
and data may transfer, but you will likely still have some services that
will not work, such as the address book.

Thanks, I will definitely backup and copy the PST file.

My immediate irritation is that my new Vista machine won't let me
install Office / Outlook 2003 at all! It says that the machine needs
Windows 97, 2000, Me, or XP, and of course it doesn't have any of
those. So it aborts the install.

GRRRRR.

It has a preview install of Office 2007, natch. I didn't know if I
needed to uninstall that for the 2003 install to work but was afraid
to do this without knowing more. So far I've not located any good
info on this, so I'm posting this here hoping someone knows something
about this new problem.

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M C Hamster