Outlook-2003 adds attachment "header.htm"

[Ruthie2005]

I am using Outlook-2003, with Word as my email editor. Whenever I send an
email, an unwanted document called "header.htm" is created and attached. The
attached document contains nothing except for some horizontal lines.

If I turn off Word as my email editor, this doesn't happen, however, I like
using Word as my editor.

I previously aired this problem on 20 Mar 2005, as a follow-up to a similar
posting by "kwl" on 3 Feb 2005. There has been no reply to either my message
or the message from "kwl". I feel that my previous posting has got buried in
the archives, which is the reason for this additional posting.

This problem is causing me a number of issues with recipients of my emails,
and is driving me crazy. Please can someone help me?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Do you have a header set for documents created in word?

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[Ruthie2005]

Do you have a header set for documents created in word?

Thanks for the quick response, Diane.

I use the "Header and Footer" features when I am creating Word documents but
NOT when I am using Word as an email editor for Outlook and creating emails.

I'm not quite sure that this is what you mean. Could you please explain a
bit more?

Thanks.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Word as the email editor uses the normal.dot - this means all features
enabled for word documents are used in your email, including headers and
footers.

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[Ruthie2005]

Word as the email editor uses the normal.dot - this means all features
enabled for word documents are used in your email, including headers and
footers.
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OK - I understand now, thanks. I have just created 2 brand new emails,
using Word as editor. I went into the Styles Organiser and deleted the Style
"Header" for both of them.

For the first test email, I entered nothing in the email body, so that all
it contained was one line of text, which is my email signature.

For the second test email I inserted a JPEG image in the message body, so
that it contained the image plus my text signature.

I sent both emails to myself. Both arrived with the same "header.htm"
attachment.

Please, where do I go from here?

Thanks again.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I don't think deleting the style will do anything - you need to disable the
header when you send email. I would probably make a template with a header
to use for word docs and disable the header in the normal template.

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[Ruthie2005]

I don't think deleting the style will do anything - you need to disable the
header when you send email. I would probably make a template with a header
to use for word docs and disable the header in the normal template.

Thanks for your reply, Diane. I'm sorry I've been slow getting back to you
- mainly due to the time difference between where you are and Australia,
where I am.

I understand what you have told me to do, but I don't know how to do it. I
have checked through all of the online help for MS-Word and also checked the
Word Forums, and I can find nothing that refers to "disabling the header".

Please could you give me some step-by-step instructions, or else point me to
where I can find these for myself.

I know how to make a template for Word - it's just "disabling the header"
that has me puzzled.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Click the header/footer button and remove the contents of the header. You
can do for each email as you compose it, but that gets to be a PITA if you
send much email.

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[Ruthie2005]

Click the header/footer button and remove the contents of the header. You
can do for each email as you compose it, but that gets to be a PITA if you
send much email.

Thanks Diane, but I still have the same problem. I live in Outlook 24/7 and
so, yes, it would be a PITA to have to modify each and every email. However,
I have tested whether that would fix the problem and it doesn't. So, now I'm
being a PITA too.

I have also removed the contents of the header and footer in my Normal.dot
template - although these already contained nothing.

So, I am still having the "header.htm" added to all of my outgoing emails.
A number of my regular contacts also have the same problem. I would really
appreciate a definitive answer to this. Thanks.