Word as Outlook Editor

[Ridge Kennedy]

Office 2003, Win XP Pro

Are there any significant advantages or disadvantages to using Word as the
editor for Outlook. The default Office install makes it so. Many end-users
leave it so. We can use administrative template to force it to use Outlook
as editor and use Rich Text.

I'd like to make a good case for implementing the policy (beyond consistency
for support purposes).

Are there any good reasons I can offer?

And is there code I can use to force Outlook to use the Outlook editor when
I'm creating a message from another application (like copying the text in a
Word document and inserting it as the body of an e-mail message).

Sincerely,

Ridge

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

With Outlook 2003 WordMail isn't as bad as it was with earlier versions of
Outlook.. I don't use it myself but that's a personal preference.

No way to force one email to use the Outlook editor if the user is set up
for WordMail. All the properties that tell you an item is a WordMail item
are read-only. Changing the registry setting for using WordMail won't work
unless Outlook is closed and restarted after that registry setting is
changed.

 

[Ridge Kennedy]

Thanks, Ken. Pretty much as I suspectected. R.