Outlook 2007 uses a scaled down version of Word via a special .dll for its email editing options so that particular choice has been removed. You are already using Word for editing all Outlook 2007 messages.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, Midwest Muskie asked:
| Thanks for pointing this method out. I wasn't aware of that feature.
| Interesting to note that I don't see anywhere in Outlook 2007 where
| you are given an option to use Word as your editor. Nor do I see
| Microsoft Office as a "New mail message using...". The only options
| presented are Plain Text, Rich Text, HTML, and other stationery.
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| "Bob I" wrote:
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|| If this is only an "occasional" need, I tell folks to NOT set Word as
|| the e-mail editor, but instead when the need to "hyperlink", click
|| Actions, New mail message using, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
|| Document. The best of both worlds. You can even drag a "Microsoft
|| Office" button to the Toolbar to make it easier.
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|| Midwest Muskie wrote:
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||| I had already tried using "HTML" formatting without success. We
||| also discourage our users from using HTML as their default format.
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||| "Bob I" wrote:
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|||| Amen to that. You could see what switching to "HTML" format does
|||| for you, but I despise HTML e-mail.
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|||| Midwest Muskie wrote:
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||||| Thanks for that quick reply, Bob. Selecting Word as the e-mail
||||| editor does fix this, and I will have the user requesting the
||||| hyperlink feature to start using Word as his editor. I was
||||| hoping that there was another way to enable this because we have
||||| experienced some "strange" problems when using Word as the editor
||||| that are fixed as soon as we stop using it. I can't recall any
||||| particular problem right now, but that setting is the first place
||||| I look when unusual problems show themselves. Quite often the
||||| problem is resolved by turning of Word as the editor.
||||| Unfortunate that in our organization, at least, Microsoft Word
||||| and Microsoft Outlook don't play very well together sometimes.
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||||| Mike
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||||| "Bob I" wrote:
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|||||| Are they using Word as the e-mail editor. That's the quick fix.
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|||||| Midwest Muskie wrote:
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||||||| I have a user that is using Outlook 2003, SP2. He used to be
||||||| able to drag a file from a file server into an email message
||||||| and was asked if he wanted to create a hyperlink. He is no
||||||| longer being asked that, but would like to be. Any ideas?
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||||||| Thanks for your help!
