The problem is Word 2003 starts when I start Outlook 2003

[Guest]

Hi,

When I start Outlook 2003, Word.EXE shows up as one of the processes that
are running. You can see this under Task Manager in the tab "Processes".
Under the applications tab you see only Microsoft Outlook.
When I minimize Microsoft Outlook it does not show up on the Taskbar and
it decreases from utilizing roughly 12,000K to 4,000K memory.
Word takes up roughly 30,000K but does not show up under the Applications
tab. If I click on the Word icon, it starts immediately. If I Exit Word the
winword.exe stays running under the processes.
I have had the programs since the came out and they worked fine. This
just started yesterday.

Any help or links would be very much appreciated. Thank you

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Normal behavior when you have selected Word as your email editor, which
Outlook 2003 does by default.