office 2007 removal

I got a new Compaq laptop with Windows Vista and also a Outlook 2007 trial on it. I have also got a computer with XP and Office 2003 and both are on the same network, but they will not communicate between the 2 office versions. I would like to remove the Office 2007 from the compaq and have actually tried it, but am getting a message telling me that the language of this program does not allow removal, so I am not able to get rid of it. Can anyone tell me how to get past this problem and have communication for office documents on both computers? Thanks for any information.

You can try to download the Office 2007 compatibility add-in for Office 2003 from this link - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Or you can also set the default save settings in Office 2007 to be that of 2003. In Word 2007 for example, click on Office button and then go to Word Options below, and click on Save and in the drop down box select Word 97-2003 option. You can also repeat the process for Excel and Powerpoint as well.