Appendix A. Installing Outlook

Before using Outlook, you have to install it. If you purchased an Office suite and used the default installation, Outlook is installed along with the rest of the Office applications.

Some users purchased only Outlook or received it in the software package included with a PDA. The installer installs Outlook with the same basic configuration options used to install it as part of Office 2003, except for the use of Word as your email editor. Because Outlook requires the same version of Word for the email editor, these versions won't have Word enabled as the editor.

If you purchased a new computer and Office was bundled with your system, congratulations, Office is preinstalled for you, but you can keep reading. You might want to install some missing options.

The last section of this appendix details how to use the Office Save My Settings Wizard to move some of your settings to your new machine when you're migrating from a previous version of Office to Office 2003. You can also use the Save My Settings Wizard to back up your Outlook profiles.