Does Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 exist?

[jno]

There's an icon on my desktop (can't remember where from or when). And when I try to email, say, a photo from My Pictures, it appears to provide the service...

But it doesn't do anything. The emails never go. And it doesn't offer any other service I need. So I thought I'd delete it. But it isn't on the list of installed programs that I can uninstall.

Does it exist? If so, can I remove it?

[jno]

if it makes any difference... I seem to be running Windows 7 Professional version 6.1

[rojash]

Well it won't do anything unless you configure it with your account details.

To uninstall it, run the Office 2007 uninstaller, where you can pick the individual components of office that you wish to have installed.

[jno]

thanks, but there is no Office 2007. The only such program listed is Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007. I don't know what this is, but would uninstalling it suiffice to take the whole thing away?

I have no need of Outlook, but somehow it blocked me from getting at My Documents yesterday. (Task Manager didn't show it running, but when I tried to close the computer dow,n the log-out screen told me it was.) It seems more trouble than it's worth.

[MarkRae]

What do you use for word processing, spreadsheets etc?

[LochNessMonster]

Outlook 2007 symbol is orange file with V shape in front of it.

[jno]

good point, MarkRae. I have Word 2007 (just for word processing, I don't do anything complicated like spreadsheets and don't know if I have a program for them). It doesn't show up separately in the list of uninstallable programs - is it part of Office Enterprise?

I should perhaps apologise at this point for my ignorance; but it is genuine.

[MarkRae]

Word 2007 is indeed part of Office 2007, though it can exist on its own. What do you use for emails?

[jno]

just Hotmail/Gmail, MarkRae. I once had Outlook Express but I gather it's now defunct and I've not needed a newer version. What relation is Office Enterprise to Office?

Nessie, I don't seem to have any such file, or if I do it's hidden from me.

[MarkRae]

Office Enterprise 2007 is a suite of various applications which look and work in a similar way but are for different purposes: http://www.microsoft..../enterprise-2007.mspx

Sounds very much like you need nothing more than the Word processing bit. However, I'm a bit confused here. On the assumption that this is a genuine and licensed version of Office which you have paid for, you have paid massively over the odds for something which you don't really need. Where did you get it from? Did it come with the machine?

[jno]

it either came with or was installed with the machine, but may have been carried over from its predecessor, which was part-destroyed by a power surge. Our local PC handyman set it all up, but I do not know where anything came from and assumed it was part of Windows 7. He is a good handyman but fluent chiefly in Bulgarian. I did not buy it separately. Word, and the former Outlook Express, are the only programs I know for sure I have had before.

You are right, Word is all I need. So if I uninstalled Enterprise, (a) would this take Outlook with it (which is what I would like to see happen); and (b) would it take Word with it - and in this case could I re-install Word separately somehow?

[rojash]

"Enterprise, (a) would this take Outlook with it (which is what I would like to see happen); and (b) would it take Word with it - and in this case could I re-install Word separately somehow?"

As i thought I'd already said: If you run the uninstaller it will ask you which bits you want installed and which bits you don't, so you don't need to unistall everything and then reinstall. Just tell it that you don't want Outlook and it will remove it leaving everything else as was.

[jno]

sorry, Rojash, but at that stage I was asking about Outlook, not Enterprise, as I didn't know the difference.

[jno]

well, that was a total fail. I uninstalled Enterprise, it didn't ask me what bits I wanted uninstalled, and it took Word and everything else with it. So where can I get/buy Word?

[gen2]

Open Office is a free equivalent.
I use it all the time.

http://download.cnet....18483_4-10263109.html

[gen2]

The Open Office equivalent WP part is called Writer
It can read documents from .doc and .docx formats and can also save in .doc format if you wish.

[MarkRae]

Alternatively, LibreOffice is very good: http://www.libreoffice.org/features/writer/

[jno]

thanks to all for your help. I have found an old Office Suite CD which I shall try to install, though it's possibly well out of date; failing that I shall try the other programs suggested.