2003 Outlook ... clicking on the email selects it but does not ope

[Marnie]

I have Office 2003. Normally, when I use Outlook, to open an email all I
have to do is click on it and it opens up. What is happening right now
though, and I do not know why, is that clicking on the email selects it but
does not open it. When I double click on the email, I get a smallish sqarish
popup with

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E-mail Auto-Link

appearing.

Why is this happening and how can I stop it from happening so that clicking
on my emails will open them again?

 

[dlw]

grab the lower right corner with your mouse and stretch it out, or click the
box in the upper right corner (the maximize button)

 

[Marnie]

Thank you to dlw. Initially, when I read your response, I thought that you
had totally misunderstood my problem. However, you were right! And I thank
you!

My daughter tells me that my husband was on my computer looking at my emails
last night when I was out (being nosy?). Apparently, he must have, for some
reason, used the restore down button and this caused all files being opened
to open in restore down mode. As I have never done that, I did not recognize
it. After I had experienced troubles with email, it turned out that I could
not even open up Microsoft Word documents from Microsoft Word without their
coming up in the same type of 'mini-mode'... which I did not recognize as
being restore down.

Anyway, the open command really is working. Do I feel dumb?!! Yes,
actually, in this case, I do. This is not really as bad as not having the
computer turned or something like that - but not realizing that a window had
been restored down, well, yes, that certainly is not smart. Thank you very
much!