Well, thanks for all the information! I'll try to get things right
this time.
Looking at my organiser specification, it says I need Outlook
98,2000,2002,or 2003 to be able to synchronise. From what I read from
your replies it seems that I need not have uninstalled the Office 2007
Home and Student Edition, if I had known that neither Outlook Express
nor Outlook were installed by the program.
I am currently left with Outlook Express to uninstall so that I can
install one of the above versions, as I mentioned, it is not
sufficient to remove Outlook by the "Add or Remove Windows Components".
Grateful for any help...
DD [using WinXP SP2 Home]

Outlook Express being installed should *not* prevent you from installing
any version of Outlook.

What is happening when you try to install Outlook and what version are you
trying to install?

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-f.h.