You can, but you will lose some functionality between Outlook and the other
office programs. For example, you can not do a mail merge between Outlook
2003 and Word 2002.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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> I want to start using Outlook 2003 but don't feel the need to upgrade
> other components of already-installed Office XP