E-Mailing from Word / Excel with Outlook as Default E-mail Program

[smoddelm]

Using Office 2003.

I can't e-mail Word or Excel files as attachments from within Word & Excel
[File/Send To/Mail Recipient (as attachment)] unless Outlook is open. The
default Outlook e-mail pane comes up, and I can type a message and "send" the
attachment, but it is not actually sent. Only upon opening the full Outlook
program does the e-mail get sent. (When I subsequently open Outlook, the
[Outbox] shows an unsent e-mail which is then sent.)

I have Hotmail (paid) and Comcast e-mail accounts. Doesn't matter which
e-mail account I use.

Outlook is set as my default e-mail program. If I set Outlook Express as my
default e-mail program, the e-mail actually gets sent without ever opening
Outlook Express.

Any suggestions? Thanks...

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Keep Outlook open. (Seriously as there is no resolution because the program
are behaving as designed.)

 

[smoddelm]

ok, thanks. Strange. I would have thought it would work the same as if
Outlook Express were the default e-mail program. If Outlook has to be open
anyway, I may as well just create e-mails and attach files in it rather than
using File/send to within the application.

Keep Outlook open. (Seriously as there is no resolution because the program
are behaving as designed.)

Using Office 2003.

I can't e-mail Word or Excel files as attachments from within Word & Excel
[File/Send To/Mail Recipient (as attachment)] unless Outlook is open. The
default Outlook e-mail pane comes up, and I can type a message and "send"
the
attachment, but it is not actually sent. Only upon opening the full
Outlook
program does the e-mail get sent. (When I subsequently open Outlook, the
[Outbox] shows an unsent e-mail which is then sent.)

I have Hotmail (paid) and Comcast e-mail accounts. Doesn't matter which
e-mail account I use.

Outlook is set as my default e-mail program. If I set Outlook Express as
my
default e-mail program, the e-mail actually gets sent without ever opening
Outlook Express.

Any suggestions? Thanks...