[Hidden-tech] up a creek??--Outlook 11 has mail format option to edit with Word 2003 but Dell laptop loaded with Word 12

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Dec 28 22:18:00 EST 2009


At Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:05:46 -0500 "David Morf" <davidtoday at comcast.net> wrote:

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> What effective, convenient, inexpensive, hopefully convenient-tech action
> will let me apply Word as the editor on my nice new Dell laptop?  The system
> came with Outlook ver 11 and Word ver 12 running under Windows 7, but
> Outlook's tool option to click "Use MS Word 2003 to edit email" is greyed
> out.  Is there a compatibility download for this scenario that doesn't
> create snarky unintended side effects?  So far, even this email seems shaky
> on its font control.

You really, really, really *DON'T* want to use MS-Word as an editor for
E-Mail.  It looks like Microsoft has *finally* seen the light and is
phasing out such an option.  MS-Word is not really any good as a *text*
editor (I won't comment on its quality as a word processor).

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