t_r_davies

Hi folks, Been lurking here for a year or so, thought I should maybe start posting things I'm running Office XP Pro SP3 on my Win2K Pro SP4 box, both of which are fully up-to-date with hotfixes. I originally installed Office over three years ago without Outlook, however I now want to start using it because I want something more flexible and powerful than Outlook Express. Now it's easy enough to add Outlook by doing a "Change installation" in Add/Remove Programs, but I was wanting some advice on whether this would give me any problems, especially as I have SP3 and many hotfixes already installed. Does anyone here have any experience of doing this, and if so, did they encounter any hiccups in the process? I know I will have to use Office Update to get Outlook-related hotfixes which are not currently installed, but will I have run the SP3 installer again to let it install the Outlook parts of the service pack? Cheers, Tom

Hi guys, I used Add/Remove Programs to add the Outlook components I wanted and it all seems to be working fine. As christianb said, I didn't have to reinstall SP3. Windows Installer obviously caches the MSI patch files: all of the Outlook files were automatically installed as the SP3 versions. Cheers for the advice fellas Tom

Hi Felix, Thanks for your advice, I'll give it a try in the morning and let you know how it goes. Cheers, Tom