How do i add the ruler?

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slrockwell

Before the Windows2003 upgrade, i was able to add the ruler to e-mail
messages. i was able to find it on the View menu. Now i can not find it. Is
there any way to add the ruler to an e-mail message to better format it?
 
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_Vanguard_

slrockwell said:
Before the Windows2003 upgrade, i was able to add the ruler to e-mail
messages. i was able to find it on the View menu. Now i can not find
it. Is
there any way to add the ruler to an e-mail message to better format
it?
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Ruler? In Outlook? Maybe you meant to ask how to display the ruler in
Word (which you are using as the e-mail compose editor instead of the
one embedded in Outlook). Calling Word as the e-mail editor from
Outlook loads Word with the email.dot template file. I suspect you
might find more users focused on how Word works in a Word newsgroup.

Windows 2003 upgrade? So you are using a server version of Windows? Or
were you asking about Office 2003?
 
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slrockwell

Okay, you got me on the technicalities. Yes, Word is my e-mail composer and i
upgraded to Office 2003.
But prior to the upgrade, the Ruler was a subcommand off the Toolbar
submenu. To display/hide the Ruler, all i had to do was go to
View...Toolbars.....Ruler and then make the appropriate selection. Now it is
not even listed. Since this was a subcommand on an Outlook menu bar, i
thought this might be an Outlook issue, not a Word editor one.
 
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_Vanguard_

slrockwell said:
Okay, you got me on the technicalities. Yes, Word is my e-mail
composer and i
upgraded to Office 2003.
But prior to the upgrade, the Ruler was a subcommand off the Toolbar
submenu. To display/hide the Ruler, all i had to do was go to
View...Toolbars.....Ruler and then make the appropriate selection. Now
it is
not even listed. Since this was a subcommand on an Outlook menu bar, i
thought this might be an Outlook issue, not a Word editor one.
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If there is a ruler included in the Outlook View menu then it is
something new to Outlook 2003 (I'm still using OL2002 since there was no
bang for the buck, for me, to go to OL2003). When using Word as the
editor, you actually load Word and the email.dot template is opened
within Word, so I suspect you thought you were still in Outlook but were
really in Word and it is under Word's View menu there was a Ruler item.

I just opened Word (2002 version) and there indeed a Ruler item under
the View menu. You don't have personalized menus enabled, do you (where
only part of the menu list is displayed and a downward chevron lets you
expand the list to see the rest of the entries)? I then used the
File -> Send to -> Mail Recipient menu in Word which opened the
email.dot template. I did see the Ruler item under the View menu (which
is enabled only when the cursor has the insert point active in the body
of the message). The View menu looked the same whether I was looking at
a normal document (using normal.dot) or looking at an e-mail compose
window (email.dot) so the menu doesn't change based on the template
(excepting for which items are enabled and disabled). I have seen where
the email.dot template file got corrupted and had to be replaced but the
standard toolbar with View menu doesn't look like it is tied to the
template file(s), especially since it is still there even if you have no
document open.

So it looks like you have a Word problem with the content of its View
menu. If it isn't the personalized menus "feature" where you click the
chevron to see or scroll through all the entries in the menu, then it
looks to be an interface change in Word 2003 and you'll probably get a
better answer in a Word newsgroup. Be sure to identify it as Word 2003.
Hope you find a solution.
 
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slrockwell

i found the solution to my problem......In Outlook 2003, i went to
Tools.....Options.....selected the Mail Format tab......then selected the
"Use Microsoft Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages" checkbox. The Ruler command
then appears under the View menu bar.....it is greyed out (disabled) if the
cursor is not in the message body.....but is enabled if the cursor is in the
message body..

This is exactly how the Ruler command appeared in my previous Outlook
version (Outlook 2000) and i would suspect that this option is also available
to you in Outlook 2002).
 
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