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Greg Salts
Hi,
I ran across a peculiar situation that I would like to either find a
solution to, or determine if the situation is documented as the correct
design of Outlook and Word.
I have Outlook and Word 2003 installed on my Windows XP system. On the
Mail Format tab of Outlook Options I have Selected to read Rich Text e-mail
messages with Microsoft Office Word 2003. I do not have selected to use
Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages.
When I opened a RichText format message, I was prompted that Outlook was
launching Microsoft Office Word 2003 to read the message. In the Windows
Task manager I do not see an instance of Word as an application, but I do
see WinWord.exe as a process. When I close the message the process does not
end automatically and consumes 32,572k of memory. If I close Outlook the
process closes with it. When I launch Outlook again and open the same
message I do not get prompted that it is starting Microsoft Office Word 2003
to read the message, and winword.exe is opened as a process, closing the
message again does not close the process.
My question is shouldn't the winword.exe process only be active in
memory when viewing a rich text message? And, why am I not notified
subsequently when I open another rich text message after closing and
restarting Outlook (which unloads the process)?
Thank you in advance for any insight youo can provide.
Thank You,
Greg Salts
I ran across a peculiar situation that I would like to either find a
solution to, or determine if the situation is documented as the correct
design of Outlook and Word.
I have Outlook and Word 2003 installed on my Windows XP system. On the
Mail Format tab of Outlook Options I have Selected to read Rich Text e-mail
messages with Microsoft Office Word 2003. I do not have selected to use
Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages.
When I opened a RichText format message, I was prompted that Outlook was
launching Microsoft Office Word 2003 to read the message. In the Windows
Task manager I do not see an instance of Word as an application, but I do
see WinWord.exe as a process. When I close the message the process does not
end automatically and consumes 32,572k of memory. If I close Outlook the
process closes with it. When I launch Outlook again and open the same
message I do not get prompted that it is starting Microsoft Office Word 2003
to read the message, and winword.exe is opened as a process, closing the
message again does not close the process.
My question is shouldn't the winword.exe process only be active in
memory when viewing a rich text message? And, why am I not notified
subsequently when I open another rich text message after closing and
restarting Outlook (which unloads the process)?
Thank you in advance for any insight youo can provide.
Thank You,
Greg Salts