Reinstalling Office (more importantly, Outlook 2003)

drury71 · Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

I have an older computer running Windows XP and Office 2003. I've run into a
couple of issues which I believe will be resolved by reinstalling Office. My
concern, however, is losing my emails and contacts in Outlook. If I unistall
the current software and then reinstall it again, will I lose the emails and
contacts or are they stored in a data file which will remain on my computer
after the unistall?

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DL · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 255

No you wont lose anything - though a backup is allways reccomended - but
what makes you think an uninstall/reinstall will help?, it rarely does

"drury71" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
>I have an older computer running Windows XP and Office 2003. I've run into
>a
> couple of issues which I believe will be resolved by reinstalling Office.
> My
> concern, however, is losing my emails and contacts in Outlook. If I
> unistall
> the current software and then reinstall it again, will I lose the emails
> and
> contacts or are they stored in a data file which will remain on my
> computer
> after the unistall?

Roady [MVP] · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 536

No, you won't lose mail, just like you won't lose Word documents.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/30

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"drury71" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> I have an older computer running Windows XP and Office 2003. I've run into
> a
> couple of issues which I believe will be resolved by reinstalling Office.
> My
> concern, however, is losing my emails and contacts in Outlook. If I
> unistall
> the current software and then reinstall it again, will I lose the emails
> and
> contacts or are they stored in a data file which will remain on my
> computer
> after the unistall?

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