Outlook: I keep getting MS Word appearing interrupting work

[Guest]

Hi,

Have installed outlook 2007 standard, all ok. Except, Outlook uses MS Word
as it's email editor, which I like. But there appears on my system a MS Word
'frame' which seriously gets in the way of working. sometimes it appears
behind outlook and blocks the background, sometimes it i selected instead of
outlook and so I cannot select anything in outlook without re-focussing on
outlook. It's highly annoying. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it? I
still want to use word as my email editor, but don't want the ghost frame
that it creates......

Thanks.

Hugh.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Outlook 2007 uses a built-in "component" of Word as the editor so you have
no choice but to use "Word".
Do you have any add-ins installed? If so, try disabling them and see if any
of them are launching the Word process.
You could also just kill the Word process using, say,
http://sunflowerhead.com/software/knockout/