Outlook 2003, using Word 2000 as editor?

[esmithbda]

In Outlook 2000, you could use either Word 97 or Word 2000 as your editor.

We have recently upgraded some of our users to Outlook 2003, but at this time we aren't going to be upgrading our full Office suite to 2003 (we have a few custom setups that we can't guarentee work the same under the newer 2003 system).

If a user has Outlook 2003 installed, but Word 2000 - it will not longer allow them to check "Use Word as my editor" in Outlook - it clearly wants Word 2003.

Please tell me there is a way around this - I really don't want to have to rollback all of our users onto Outlook 2000 again (there is an in house bit of software that we use and if some people in a certain group can't use Outlook 2003, then none of them can because it throw off the setup).

 

[esmithbda]

I finally ended up having to uninstall Outlook 2003 on this user's machine and then reinstall Outlook 2000.

Now when he goes to turn on the "use Word as editor" feature, the checkbox allows him to check it, but then when he creates a new mail, it says that it cannot find Word and then because of that won't use it as the editor.

He definitely has the full Office suite on his machine, so any ideas on what would cause this - or more importantly, how to solve this?