Disable Word as Editor, Temporarily?

[StevenBr]

I'm running into the usual problems adding a toolbar to an outlook inspector
spawned by my application, when Word is set as the email editor (I've read
through the many posts and excellent responses here), and am perfectly
comfortable with the idea of simply disabling Word as the editor for only my
messages.

To do this, I thought I'd turn off the option (if it were on) in a new or
already running instance of Outlook, open my new message window, and then
reset the option to what it was, either on or off.

Is this possible?
Thanks!

 

[Peter Huang [MSFT]]

Hi Steven,

Based on my research, Outlook Object Modal did not provide such interface
to for us to programmatically change the option.
The information is stored in the registry, we can leverage Registry API to
read/write it.
But for that to take effect, we MUST restart Outlook.exe, so that outlook
will read the information and the change take effect.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[9.0][10.0][11.0]\Outlook\Option
s\Mail\EditorPreference.

Outlook's Message Format Settings In The Registry
http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/archive/2004/08/03/1324.aspx

This seems to be a Product Limitation.
I do understand your concern in this scenario, I highly suggest you can
submit this feedback to our product feedback center:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx

or submit to the Office feedback website.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus.aspx

Thanks for your understanding!

If you still have any concern, please feel free to post here.


Best regards,

Peter Huang

Microsoft Online Community Support
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