OneNote 2007 with Office 2003? Yes!

Often we have gotten this question: does OneNote 2007 work with Office 2003? The answer is yes!

You can install OneNote 2007 alongside Office 2003 and most everything will work as expected. There are only a few things that are not supported:

1. Send to blog feature doesn't work since we rely on Word 2007 to do the blogging so without 2007 this will not work.
2. If you are using OneNote 2007 with Outlook 2003 you will not get the email editing experience within OneNote. Instead OneNote will open a new Outlook mail message with the HTML & .one attachments. When you have the same version you can view the HTML right within OneNote.

Otherwise all of the Outlook integration features should work just fine. In fact you can even install OneNote 2007 alongside OneNote 2003 though I wouldn't recommend it (you will have issues if they are trying to access the same set of notes and also each will compete to get the .one file extension).

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 16, 2007
  The real question would be "Does OneNote 2003 run cleanly with Office 2007?" While I was extremely pleased with the new Office Suite, what was done to OneNote is a crime, and that's before we consider that the 2007 install blows away your notebook.

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2007
  Hi Daniel, One thing that would be of interest is why some Windows Mobile 2003 devices refuse to install OneNote Mobile. I have ON2007, Vista Ultimate and a HP iPAQ h6340 which has Windows Mobile 2003 with Phone Extensions. According to OneNote, the mobile edition can't be installed on that device. ( Vista uses Sync Center btw.. not ActiveSync )

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2007
  I believe that OneNote Mobile (ON2007) will only work with Windows Mobile 5.

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2007
  OK ON2007 will work with Office2003, but what's the score with ON2003 working with Office2007?

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2007
  Þór - OneNote Mobile is supported on Windows Mobile 5.0 & Windows Mobile 6.0.  For Windows Mobile 2003 it only supports Smartphone and not PocketPC which I believe the iPAQ is. Bob - OneNote 2003 will work with Office 2007.  You really do want to upgrade to the new version of OneNote because it has a lot of new enhancements.

• Anonymous
  March 21, 2007
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• Anonymous
  March 23, 2007
  sbreck - For your Word problem please log a but on our Connect site: http://connect.microsoft.com/onenote/ If you have specifics for formatting & track changes information please log them on Connect or email me via the contact me link.  Thanks for the feedback!

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2007
  The only painoint here is that now when you send an email OneNote to others, they only get the attachments. the nicely-formatted HTML is gone--removing one of the reasons that I bought OneNote in the first place. putting 2 attachments looks awful and is less than useful.

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  I have installed Onenote 2007 with Office 2003. Onenote 2007 is excellent - But I now find that opening word or excel documents from a sharepoint fails. This applies to both internal and external (other company) sharepoints. I have reinstalled OFFICE 2003 but still no luck. I then installed Onnote2003 and the problem seems to have gone away. Is this a feature :-) Any ideas?

• Anonymous
  May 01, 2007
  Sorry I don't support all Office apps, you would need to try another fourm.  I would recommend the Microsoft support newsgroups. Also real quick you can try detect & repair and see if it works for you but otherwise I would try the support forums.

• Anonymous
  October 26, 2007
  Why don't I get 'send to onenote' button in Word 2003? I have similar button in outlook and ie.

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 20, 2008
  Daniel, We run Office 2003 in an Enterprise environment.  We would like to deploy OneNote 2007 with this, but have some issues.  The OneNote installation seems to interfere with the Office 2003 cache, and also reassociates certain .dll files.  The only fix that we have found for this is to reinstall the latest service pack for Office 2003 after OneNote has been loaded, which is not a workaround we can live with.  Is there anything else we can do?

• Anonymous
  October 05, 2009
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• Anonymous
  February 08, 2010
  I have a problem linking Outlook 2003 and Onenote 2007. From within Onenote 2007, Insert->"Insert Meeting Details" gives me a list of meetings as expected (from Outlook 2003 Calendar), but nothing happens when I click "Insert Details". Also when I open a meeting in Outlook Calendar and click the "Open or create linked meeting notes in Onenote" button, I only get meeting name and location, but no attendees or message etc. Any thoughts?