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Subject:Re: Editor for Outlook From:Mike Starr <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:02:36 -0600
<arggh> Major suckage.
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Sarah Blake wrote:
>> The conventional wisdom is to never use Word for your Outlook email
> editing
>> because it can do some wonky things to your normal.dot template that
> can
>> hose your production documents if you're not careful.
>
> Sadly, this is not a wisdom shared by Microsoft.
>
>>From the Outlook 2007 help:
>
> ' The Microsoft Office Word 2007-based e-mail editor is the only e-mail
> editor provided in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. The Word 2007 editor
> is always enabled and cannot be disabled.'
>
> So yet another reason to avoid upgrading to Office 2007 for as long as
> you humanly can!
>
> Sarah
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