MS Office 2003 always looking for MSWORD (looking a long, long time

[Ritter197]

I have MSOffice 2003 Pro and when I want to send a message out of Outlook,
it comes up with a window looking "forever" for MSWord.. It takes so long
that I never waited to the end.

I re-installed MSOffice 2003, also used the Repair action, all went well,
but there is no change. It still keeps on looking for MSWord. It IS
installed, I can see it under My Programs and then under MSOffice 2003.

This program has worked fine in the past but I installed it on a new HP
computer. Installation went fine, except I have the above trouble.

What in the world can cause this?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have MSOffice 2003 Pro and when I want to send a message out of
Outlook, it comes up with a window looking "forever" for MSWord.. It
takes so long that I never waited to the end.

What happens if you disable Word as the mail editor?

 

[Ritter197]

Have not tried this, but before it always worked. Same software, only
slightly faster CPU.

But I will try and post back what happens.

 

[Ritter197]

I cannot find where I set or DISABLE MSWord as the editor.

 

[Ritter197]

I saw that for some reason MSWord was not selected when I looked at accounts
in IE. I selected it and it seems to be ok now.

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]]

'Tools|Options|Mail Format', check or uncheck the "Use Microsoft Office Word
2003 to edit e-mail messages" checkbox.

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[Ritter197]

VERY good advice. It all works now. Thanks again.

 

[June]

I am not sue this would fix the problem, but it is worth a try --

Open Outlook. go to Tools, Options, Mail Format. Uncheck Use Microsoft
Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages.

Good Luck!

June