Email editor different

[Guest]

When I use the standard email editor from outlook 2003(uses word) I have more
functions such as Autotext (which I have just got into - it's great). Say if
I use excel and want to email a worksheet as an attachment, I have not got
the option of using autotext from the insert menu. I have found the same
thing happens if I use adobe acrobat and email from that instead of creating
a new email message and inserting an attachment.
Why is this?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This is because those methods use what's called Simple MAPI, which doesn't
use Outlook's full feature set. If you want WordMail features, the easiest
solution is to create the message first, then insert the item.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick response Sue.
Is there any way to make other programs such as Excel use the other MAPI
which does have the full or more of the outlook feature set?