Excel Send to Question

[Anita]

I have Office XP and I would like to be able to send Excel documents by
Outlook Express. But when I go into Internet Properties/Programs, the only
email listed is Microsoft Outlook. Does anyone know how to add Outlook
Express to the E-Mail Listing?



Thanks.

Anita

 

[Dick Kusleika]

Anita

It should be listed, that's strange. Try opening Outlook Express and going
to Tools - Options. On the General tab there should be a button to make OE
the default. Hit that button and see if it does the trick.

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Indeed strange?

If Dicks suggestion is not working for you then try this

You can try to register OE again(see this example for OE)

Go to Start | Run and type the following:
"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /reg
(Check the path to msimn.exe to make sure that is correct)

 

[Anita]

Hi Ron,



Your Suggestion worked. Outlook Express is now on the menu and I made it my
Default Mail Handler.



I also uninstalled Microsoft Outlook. I can send email from IE6 using
Outlook Express. But, even though I uninstalled Microsoft Outlook, when I
try to send a file from Excel or from any of my programs or from Windows
Explorer, the Microsoft Outlook dialog box appears.



Can you help?



Thanks.

Anita

 

[Ron de Bruin]

My first step will be register Excel again to see if this fix it

Close Excel first and
On the Windows Taskbar

1 ) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.

 

[Anita]

Hi Ron,

I did as you said and Excel was reconfigured. But the Outlook Profile box
still appears when I try to e-mail.
What should I try next?

Thanks.
Anita

 

[Dave Peterson]

This may seem silly, but close excel.
back to internet explorer|tools|internet options

Change the default mail handler to something else and apply
then change it back to OE. And apply.

(When we used Netscape Messenger as our mail client, sometimes excel/windows had
to be woken up for the change to take effect--sometimes it worked and sometimes
it didn't!)

 

[Anita]

Hi Dave,



I tried your suggestion too. But it didn't work for me. It's not just
Excel, I can't email from any of my programs to Outlook Express. Somehow
Microsoft Outlook has taken over all my Send to Recipient links.



Since the problem seems to be global, would reinstalling Outlook Express
solve the problem?



Thanks.

Anita

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi Anita

Strange system<g>

You say this

I also uninstalled Microsoft Outlook

Install it again and set OE as your default program and see if
it is working correct now

--
Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl

Hi Dave,



I tried your suggestion too. But it didn't work for me. It's not just
Excel, I can't email from any of my programs to Outlook Express. Somehow
Microsoft Outlook has taken over all my Send to Recipient links.



Since the problem seems to be global, would reinstalling Outlook Express
solve the problem?



Thanks.

Anita

 

[Dave Peterson]

more guesses:

What happens when you do it now--since you uninstalled Outlook?

If you didn't remove outlook, then remove it.

I'd reregister OE first and try that out.

If it didn't work, then try uninstalling and reinstalling OE.

I searched the MSKB and found this:

How to change the default mail client for Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=154359
It had some registry tweaks in it. Back up your registry before you anything
(From someone who didn't!)


This sounds promising:
SendTo and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

And maybe:
Repair or Reinstall IE/OE
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378

I searched google and found this:
http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx
(Stephen L. Cochran's site)

I stole a lot of those links from this thread:
http://google.com/groups?threadm=#[email protected]


If none of these worked, you may want to head down the road to the MSIE
newsgroups and ask for help there.

Good luck,

 

[Anita]

Dave and Ron thanks so much for you help. I was missing the DllPath in the
Registry.
Anita

 

[Dave Peterson]

Did something in one of those KB articles help?

If yes, which KB?

(Just for future use--when it happens to me!)

Dave and Ron thanks so much for you help. I was missing the DllPath in the
Registry.
Anita

 

[Ron de Bruin]

This one Dave
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

 

[Dave Peterson]

Thanks, Ron.

(Yeah, I'm pretty lazy and didn't want to go looking again!)

This one Dave
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098