Not very long ago i was put in a situation where i was forced to install windows office 2007 on my laptop. My laptop being few years old didn't seem to go very well with the office 2007 version and was rather sluggish in comparison with office 2003. So, i decided to remove office 2007 and get back to my tried and tested 2003 version on my laptop.
Everything went smoothly and the uninstaller associated with office 2007 did a seemingly good job to uninstall all the 2007 components. Atleast this was what i thought had happened. I only realized the problem once i installed office 2003 and was trying to run outlook. Outlook wouldn't open on my system and would give a message which read something like "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version. This could have been caused by installing other messaging software. Please reinstall Outlook.". I thought what the hell is wrong with these office suites. They seem to do something or the other to my system.
Now my mission was to find the solution to this problem. Actually the solution was not that complicated and i found it in the first few results of google itself with the error message as the search text i.e. "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version. This could have been caused by installing other messaging software. Please reinstall Outlook." One of the results was the link to the Microsoft support page, which provided the solution which was very easy to implement. For the convenience of my readers, i am providing the solution as provided on the support website as follows:
1. Start Windows Explorer.
2. Locate and then open the following folder on your computer: C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Msmapi\1033
3. Right-click the MSMapi32.dll file, and then click Rename.
Everything went smoothly and the uninstaller associated with office 2007 did a seemingly good job to uninstall all the 2007 components. Atleast this was what i thought had happened. I only realized the problem once i installed office 2003 and was trying to run outlook. Outlook wouldn't open on my system and would give a message which read something like "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version. This could have been caused by installing other messaging software. Please reinstall Outlook.". I thought what the hell is wrong with these office suites. They seem to do something or the other to my system.
Now my mission was to find the solution to this problem. Actually the solution was not that complicated and i found it in the first few results of google itself with the error message as the search text i.e. "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version. This could have been caused by installing other messaging software. Please reinstall Outlook." One of the results was the link to the Microsoft support page, which provided the solution which was very easy to implement. For the convenience of my readers, i am providing the solution as provided on the support website as follows:
1. Start Windows Explorer.
2. Locate and then open the following folder on your computer: C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Msmapi\1033
3. Right-click the MSMapi32.dll file, and then click Rename.
Note The file (Msmapi32.dll) that you are renaming differs from the file (Mapi32.dll) that is mentioned in the error message.
4. Type Msmapi32.old, and then press ENTER to rename the file.
5. Start Outlook 2003.
4. Type Msmapi32.old, and then press ENTER to rename the file.
5. Start Outlook 2003.
After following these simple steps my outlook became functional again and i was happy. To read more on the error, and details provided on the support page, click here.
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