Flumexed & Frustrated - Word 2003 & Email

[Mucklucks]

I'm going mad. Have tried zillions of repairs. No Good. I use Word 2003 in
Outlook 2003 in Win XP (updated to moment.) A month ago Word started opening
in Outlook with strange formatting: There is now always a small Frame at
start of page; the text color chosen is always Ivory-invisible; two toolbars
are always missing...and a floating "Email" bar is present; Paragraph Style
is endlessly set to "Normal (Web)" - not just "Normal". And so on...

QUESTION 1 - Is there a template for email when using Word in Outlook?
I.e., is there an email template? (Someone said, "Outlook's default template
is stored in Outlook's 'Standard Forms Library' as the 'Message' template." -
I cannot find that.)

QUESTION 2 - Why has this suddenly happened, and what can I do about it?

So You Know: I have renamed Normal.dot and made a new default one--No Help.
I have "fixed" the Reg key for Data Entry--No Help. I have done everything
else I can think of--No Help.

For any & all response & assistance I shall be grovelingly grateful.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Close Outlook and Word. Search for email.dot and rename it to something
else.

 

[Mucklucks]

Sorry for delay, was away. I tried your suggestion, afraid it didn't work.
First I renamed email.dot and left it where it was. When I opened Outlook,
Word opened with the same insane template as before.

Then I removed email.dot to a private folder on another drive. Same thing
happened, but this is interesting: Word did not make a default email.dot.
There is now no email.dot in the ...office11\1033 folder.

Also, I have a perfectly good email.dot that I saved in my private folder
months ago. So I copied that into ...office11\1033. That also made no
difference. Word comes up with the same demented template.

BTW I've checked and there are no other email.dot files on my hard discs.

But I sure thank you for trying.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

In Outlook, click on Tools | Options | Mail Format tab | Stationery and
Fonts: Use this stationery by default: <None> | OK.

 

[Mucklucks]

Holy Toledo! That did it! I am free, free, free from the terrible email
template that persisted thru every fix I could come up with - even completely
uninstalling Office 2003 and re-installing it, without fixing the problem.
But changing my stationary from <blank> to <none> solved my endless
frustration.

Thanks be to garfield-n-odie! May you win the Lottery, Sir! or Ms!

(P.S. Sorry for delay, but I didn't get an email indicating a new answer.)