Re: Editor for Outlook

[Mike Starr <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

If you uncheck the "Use Microsoft Word to edit your email" (or whatever it says; I'm not at a machine where I can grab the exact wording), Outlook has its own built-in editor that'll handle HTML-formatted email.

The conventional wisdom is to never use Word for your Outlook email editing because it can do some wonky things to your normal.dot template that can hose your production documents if you're not careful.

Mike
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McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> Does anybody use something other than Word as the editor for your
> non-plain-text MS-Outlook e-mail writing?
> 
> For bonus points, does anybody know if I should be using a different
> version of Office 2003 if I'm on a 64-bit machine running XP Pro X64 ?
> Word's been acting wonky for me lately - I mean wonkier than usual, even
> for Word.   The company is still standardized on XP and Office 2003.
> They won't supply or support Vista or Office 2007 or beyond. 
> 
> I hate having three or four Word documents lock up while Outlook (with
> half a dozen e-mails open with Word as the editor) dithers about its
> server connection or something.  But I can't just go to 100% plain-text
> mail because this is an office (and Office) environment where people use
> a lot of fancy text and inclusions for legit business reasons.  Also, I
> like to refer to "text items in red" and "bolded items" and "the items
> in monospaced font below"  when I know my favorite Product Mangler will
> be reading plain-text-only on his Crackberry and not have a clue.
> :-)
> 
>  - Kevin
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