I need to turn off Word 2007 as my default email editor

[canugi]

I understand that I cannot turn off Word 2007 as my default email
editor in Office Pack 2007. This is stated in Help under "Discontinued
features". I have migrated to Office Pack 2007 under XP 5.1 SP 2

This collides with applications developed to work with Word
(application features shown under Word Add Ins).

What I wonder is

1) which editor would Outlook use if I uninstall Word completely?
(Word can be left out when installing Office Pack 2007) (I hear that
in that case Outlook would use its own editor with less features than
Word.)

2) Can I prevent Outlook from accessing Word by tweaking in some way
the registry or something else?

The applications runned fine with Office Pack 2000.
Thanx
canugi

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

1) which editor would Outlook use if I uninstall Word completely?
(Word can be left out when installing Office Pack 2007) (I hear that
in that case Outlook would use its own editor with less features than
Word.)

It would use exactly the same editor it uses with Word installed. Outlook
uses a stub of Word that gets installed whether or not full Word is
installed.

2) Can I prevent Outlook from accessing Word by tweaking in some way
the registry or something else?

Nope.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

if you uninstall word it will use a stub of the word application, with
approx. the same features as in the outlook editor. This is the only way to
get outlook to not use the full version of word. Assuming you plan to
install an older version for your application, this might work, although I'd
expect the applications developer would address the issues so it would work
with with office 2007.


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