Outlook 2003: Ruler doesnt display

[eli]

Hello:

I use Microsoft 2003 as my default email program, and I have set Microsoft
Word as the email editor.

When I compose a new email from within Outlook, a ruler is dispalyed along
the upper margin of the email body, as is the case in a Word document.

However, when I attempt to compose an email from within IE 6 under the New
Message option at the toolbar, or Send by Email under File, the same
Outlook interface apppears but the ruler is missing. the formatting is set
to HTML. How canI get that ruler to show in those situations as well?

Thanks in advance:
Eli

Windows XP Profesional Editon
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition

 

[eli]

Sorry:

I meant to say:
"I use Microsoft Outlook 2003 as my default email program. Microsoft Word
2003 is the email editor.

-Eli

 

[SgtRich]

I use Microsoft 2003 as my default email program, and I have set Microsoft
Word as the email editor.

When I compose a new email from within Outlook, a ruler is dispalyed along
the upper margin of the email body, as is the case in a Word document.

However, when I attempt to compose an email from within IE 6 under the New
Message option at the toolbar, or Send by Email under File, the same
Outlook interface apppears but the ruler is missing. the formatting is set
to HTML. How canI get that ruler to show in those situations as well?

You can't. The ruler is only available in Word.

 

[eli]

Sgt Rich wrote:

"You can't. The ruler is only available in Word.
--
<<<SgtRich>>>

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Yet it is available when I open Outlook and compose an email from within it.
-Eli

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Using IE send to or right click does not invoke the full Outlook client so
your Word is not enabled as the editor.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, eli asked:

| Sgt Rich wrote:
|
| "You can't. The ruler is only available in Word.
|
| || On Sat, 13 May 2006 04:20:30 -0400, "eli" <[email protected]>
|| wrote:
||
|||
||| I use Microsoft 2003 as my default email program, and I have set
||| Microsoft Word as the email editor.
|||
||| When I compose a new email from within Outlook, a ruler is
||| dispalyed along the upper margin of the email body, as is the case
||| in a Word document.
|||
||| However, when I attempt to compose an email from within IE 6 under
||| the New Message option at the toolbar, or Send by Email under
||| File, the same Outlook interface apppears but the ruler is missing.
||| the formatting is set to HTML. How canI get that ruler to show in
||| those situations as well?
|||
|| You can't. The ruler is only available in Word.
|| --
|| <<<SgtRich>>>
|| Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

[SgtRich]

Yet it is available when I open Outlook and compose an email from within it.
-Eli

That is because, when you open Outlook, it invokes Word, which you
choose to use as your default message editor for Outlook. That option
is not available from IE.