How can I send email from Word 2002 when I have Outlook 2003?

[Hank]

I upgraded to Outlook 2003 recently because the junk mail filters were so
much better than my Outlook 2000. I also upgraded to Word 2002. The problem
is that now I can't email from Word as the body of an email although I can
email directly from within word if I select email as an attachment. Surely
the answer I have seen posted that both programs must be of the same version
is not the only answer. Isn't there a patch or fixed to this seemingly simple
issue.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The version of Word and Outlook must match if you want to send email from
Word.

 

[orflyg1rl]

Thank you for your response Suzanne but I find it VERY hard to believe that
this is the ONLY solution. Please don't take offense to my frustration but I
can't believe Miscrosoft hasn't published a fix for this. Not everyone is
financially able to upgrade to the lastest version of Office Products (i.e.
Word and Excel) to simply take advantage of new features in Outlook 2003 as
Hank has stated while loosing simple functionality of MS Products such as
using the "Send To" command.

Please tell me it isn't so?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can send Word files as attachments in any version of Outlook, and I
assume you can do it from Word (I use Outlook Express to send Word file
attachments, and I can do it using File | Send To | Mail Recipient (as
Attachment)), but you can't use Word as your email editor unless the
versions match. Outlook has a perfectly good email editor; why not use it?

 

[orflyg1rl]

Thanks for your prompt response Suzanne. It doesn’t surprise me that Outlook
2003 can serve as a good mail editor; however I’m sure you can see my
viewpoint from the “User†side.

Why on earth would Microsoft release Outlook version 2003 and not support
backward compatibility on some of the most basic functionality of its Office
Products (i.e. The “Send To†command in Word and Excel)? Yes, there is a
published “Workaround†for this in the MS Knowledgebase (article ID: 828509)
but again, there is no solution to the problem caused by the upgrade to
Outlook 2003.

In support of the MS User Community and in the interest of good business
practice – forcing users to upgrade from the XP Office Suite (i.e. Word 2002)
to Office 2003 just so they can continue to benefit from Microsoft’s
application integration features is down-right WRONG. Users want to be able
to send their documents and spreadsheets from within Word and Excel just like
they have always been able to do in the past Office Suite versions. Asking
users to save their docs, launch Outlook, navigate to the location they just
saved the file, attach it to a new message requires significantly more steps
than just simply selecting the “Send To†command and is down-right wrong.

I trust you and or others have a better insight on what’s going on here.
Someone please tell me there is a fix.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have stated that you CAN use File | Send To | Mail Recipient (As
Attachment). So I don't see how this implies that you have to open Outlook
and attach documents. I don't see the need for sending a document as "the
body of an email." That isn't a Word document; that's an email, and you can
send that from Outlook directly.

 

[orflyg1rl]

Sorry if I mis-communicated that somehow. I CAN NOT use the File| Send To |
Mail Recipient (As Attachment) command. Unfortunately, the only screen
capture I took was from Excel and btw, I stand corected - the KB article I
referenced earlier was regarding Excel not Word. This problem of not being
able to email docs runs across all MS applications since the upgrade to
Outlook 2003.

I've checked the win.ini file to make sure MAPI settings are correct. What
elese can I check? Why won't mapi work now?

IT Girl

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, I think I was confusing the issue here. I use Outlook Express as my
default mail client, and I can use it to send files as attachments from
within Word 2003, but I do have Outlook 2003 installed. My assumption,
evidently incorrect, was that Word would extend as much courtesy to a
different version of Outlook as it does to OE.