I went to Control panel and Word is chosen as my editor. In Outlook I have
Word checked.

When I click on advanced edit - opens notepad.

Help Please

The Advanced Editor for signatures has nothing to do with your email editor.
It opens your signature in your default HTML editor.
You can change your default HTML editor in Control Panel-> Internet
Options-> tab Programs

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"JC" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I went to Control panel and Word is chosen as my editor. In Outlook I have
> Word checked.
>
> When I click on advanced edit - opens notepad.
>
> Help Please

Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:

> The Advanced Editor for signatures has nothing to do with your email
> editor. It opens your signature in your default HTML editor.
> You can change your default HTML editor in Control Panel-> Internet
> Options-> tab Programs

I'm going to jump in on this. I have Word specified there and Notepad still
opens. Now, I don't mind that because I want to use Notepad for any HTML I
write, but I've wondered about it for some time.
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Yes, there is a corruption somewhere and a duplicate registry key. I came
across this once a couple of years ago in an Outlook 2003/Windows XP
configuration. You can use this key to overrule the system's default HTML
editor for a single user or set it to an editor that doesn't register itself
as an HTML editor.

I'm not sure if I documented this key somewhere but I'll look into it.

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"Brian Tillman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:
>
>> The Advanced Editor for signatures has nothing to do with your email
>> editor. It opens your signature in your default HTML editor.
>> You can change your default HTML editor in Control Panel-> Internet
>> Options-> tab Programs
>
> I'm going to jump in on this. I have Word specified there and Notepad
> still opens. Now, I don't mind that because I want to use Notepad for any
> HTML I write, but I've wondered about it for some time.
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> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Ok, found it.
Check the editor specified in this registry key;
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared\HTML\Default
Editor\shell\edit\command

I bet you have Notepad specified there and not Word.
Simply delete the entire "Default Editor" hive or if that is the only option
specified, you can delete the entire "Share" hive.

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"Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote in
message news:83927406-132F-4E24-A187-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Yes, there is a corruption somewhere and a duplicate registry key. I came
> across this once a couple of years ago in an Outlook 2003/Windows XP
> configuration. You can use this key to overrule the system's default HTML
> editor for a single user or set it to an editor that doesn't register
> itself as an HTML editor.
>
> I'm not sure if I documented this key somewhere but I'll look into it.
>
> --
> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>
> http://www.msoutlook.info/
> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>
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> "Brian Tillman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:
>>
>>> The Advanced Editor for signatures has nothing to do with your email
>>> editor. It opens your signature in your default HTML editor.
>>> You can change your default HTML editor in Control Panel-> Internet
>>> Options-> tab Programs
>>
>> I'm going to jump in on this. I have Word specified there and Notepad
>> still opens. Now, I don't mind that because I want to use Notepad for
>> any HTML I write, but I've wondered about it for some time.
>> --
>> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>

Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:

> I bet you have Notepad specified there and not Word.
> Simply delete the entire "Default Editor" hive or if that is the only
> option specified, you can delete the entire "Share" hive.

This is the value defined in that key:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Just to be clear;
Notepad only opens when editing your signature via Advanced Editor and Word
opens when editing an htm-file?

Does the key I gave you also exist in;
-HKLM
-HK_U\.DEFAULT
-in the policy regkeys?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML
Editor]
and
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML Editor]

Are these both set to winword.exe?

It's fun digging in the registry ;-)

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"Brian Tillman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:
>
>> I bet you have Notepad specified there and not Word.
>> Simply delete the entire "Default Editor" hive or if that is the only
>> option specified, you can delete the entire "Share" hive.
>
> This is the value defined in that key:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde
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Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:

> Just to be clear;
> Notepad only opens when editing your signature via Advanced Editor
> and Word opens when editing an htm-file?

Correct.

> Does the key I gave you also exist in;
> -HKLM
> -HK_U\.DEFAULT
> -in the policy regkeys?

The HKLM equivalent contains

"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.0.3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%1"

However, HLKM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared\HTML\Old Default
Editor\shell\Edit\command does contain a reference to Notepad, do perhaps
that's what's cauing it.

> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML
> Editor]

"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.0.3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%1"

> and
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML
> Editor]

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde
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Interesting. Never came across the "Old Default Editor" key. I assume
OpenOffice is still installed?

The keys are quite conflicting with each other. You can spent quite some
time trying to find out in which order IE and Outlook look at those keys and
which one ultimately wins (the first or last one it looks at). From the look
of things; they both have a different algorithm. There must be other keys in
play as well because even when I delete all the keys I've found so far, it
still opens up an editor without spitting an error to me. In my case it
ultimately opens up Word while I would expect it to fall back to Notepad IF
it had a fallback option already. Time to fire up RegMon some time I think
;-)

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"Brian Tillman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear;
>> Notepad only opens when editing your signature via Advanced Editor
>> and Word opens when editing an htm-file?
>
> Correct.
>
>> Does the key I gave you also exist in;
>> -HKLM
>> -HK_U\.DEFAULT
>> -in the policy regkeys?
>
> The HKLM equivalent contains
>
> "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.0.3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%1"
>
> However, HLKM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared\HTML\Old Default
> Editor\shell\Edit\command does contain a reference to Notepad, do perhaps
> that's what's cauing it.
>
>> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML
>> Editor]
>
> "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.0.3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%1"
>
>> and
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML
>> Editor]
>
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde
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Roady [MVP] <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:

> Interesting. Never came across the "Old Default Editor" key. I assume
> OpenOffice is still installed?

Yes.

> The keys are quite conflicting with each other. You can spent quite
> some time trying to find out in which order IE and Outlook look at
> those keys and which one ultimately wins (the first or last one it
> looks at). From the look of things; they both have a different
> algorithm. There must be other keys in play as well because even when
> I delete all the keys I've found so far, it still opens up an editor
> without spitting an error to me. In my case it ultimately opens up
> Word while I would expect it to fall back to Notepad IF it had a
> fallback option already. Time to fire up RegMon some time I think ;-)

Just might do that the next time I'm looking for some entertainment.
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