Outlook 2007, turn off Word as editor?

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Gordon Price

This was easy enough in every earlier version. Did MS take this out of 2007
and force us to use Word as the Editor? Anyone know how to turn Word as
editor off?
Crossed fingers,
Gordon
 
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Patrick Schmid [MVP]

You can't. Microsoft got rid of the Outlook 2003 native editor and
replaced it with a new native editor that happens to be based on Word.
You are not actually using Word, but a special DLL that contains the
Word functionality needed for writing emails in Outlook.
Why don't you like the new editor?

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Gordon Price

Patrick Schmid said:
You can't. Microsoft got rid of the Outlook 2003 native editor and
replaced it with a new native editor that happens to be based on Word.
You are not actually using Word, but a special DLL that contains the
Word functionality needed for writing emails in Outlook.
Why don't you like the new editor?

Because it is a slug when I am also using Revit, which is by line of
business app. Outlook is a just a sometimes use app that is now so bloated
that I can't afford to keep it open. At least when I could use a tight native
editor instead of the Word bloatware editor I could minimize the issue.
Unfortunately Microsoft thinks their apps are the center of my universe, and
they are not. Major bummer.

Thanks,
Gordon
 
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Patrick Schmid [MVP]

Because it is a slug when I am also using Revit, which is by line of
business app. Outlook is a just a sometimes use app that is now so bloated
that I can't afford to keep it open. At least when I could use a tight native
editor instead of the Word bloatware editor I could minimize the issue.
Unfortunately Microsoft thinks their apps are the center of my universe, and
they are not. Major bummer.
I agree that the Word editor of 2003 was a slug, but the one from 2007
really should not be. As I said, it is basically a built-in Outlook
editor just with more functionality.
How does the behavior you are describing manifest itself? And when does
it happen?
Are you saying that Outlook just uses too much memory in general? If
that's your complaint, then I doubt that the editor switch really did
anything much to increase Outlook's memory footprint. They just replaced
one built-in editor with another. The main reason they did that was
because it didn't make much sense for them to develop two editors at the
same time. So they decided to save development resources, went to one
editor and invested the development resources into other features.
 
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Roady [MVP]

....and at the same time they reduced the complixity for the end user and the
developers of Outlook add-ins.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Patrick Schmid said:
Because it is a slug when I am also using Revit, which is by line of
business app. Outlook is a just a sometimes use app that is now so bloated
that I can't afford to keep it open. At least when I could use a tight
native
editor instead of the Word bloatware editor I could minimize the issue.
Unfortunately Microsoft thinks their apps are the center of my universe,
and
they are not. Major bummer.
I agree that the Word editor of 2003 was a slug, but the one from 2007
really should not be. As I said, it is basically a built-in Outlook
editor just with more functionality.
How does the behavior you are describing manifest itself? And when does
it happen?
Are you saying that Outlook just uses too much memory in general? If
that's your complaint, then I doubt that the editor switch really did
anything much to increase Outlook's memory footprint. They just replaced
one built-in editor with another. The main reason they did that was
because it didn't make much sense for them to develop two editors at the
same time. So they decided to save development resources, went to one
editor and invested the development resources into other features.
 
S

silencer1981

Roady,


The reason I turned off the Word editor is because it causes two
problems. The first is that it vertically repeats the background image
in a stationary, which offcourse should only be in the left corner of
the mail message. The second problem exists in Outlook 2003 & 2007 (not
2000) for so far I know), which is that when you receive mails with the
stationary as I'm talking about it will crash (hang) Outlook when you
have turned on Word as the primary editor. When you close Outlook and
start it again it shows the new message and you can open it without any
problem.

I looked for a solution to this problem but Microsoft doesn't have any
article for so far I could see about this problem (either the
stationary or crash problem). Do you have any idea?


Greetings,


Mark Wolters
MCDST - MCSA - VCPBE

Roady [MVP] schreef:
...and at the same time they reduced the complixity for the end user and the
developers of Outlook add-ins.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----
Patrick Schmid said:
Because it is a slug when I am also using Revit, which is by line of
business app. Outlook is a just a sometimes use app that is now so bloated
that I can't afford to keep it open. At least when I could use a tight
native
editor instead of the Word bloatware editor I could minimize the issue.
Unfortunately Microsoft thinks their apps are the center of my universe,
and
they are not. Major bummer.
I agree that the Word editor of 2003 was a slug, but the one from 2007
really should not be. As I said, it is basically a built-in Outlook
editor just with more functionality.
How does the behavior you are describing manifest itself? And when does
it happen?
Are you saying that Outlook just uses too much memory in general? If
that's your complaint, then I doubt that the editor switch really did
anything much to increase Outlook's memory footprint. They just replaced
one built-in editor with another. The main reason they did that was
because it didn't make much sense for them to develop two editors at the
same time. So they decided to save development resources, went to one
editor and invested the development resources into other features.
 
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silencer1981

Roady,

De second problem is solved by Microsofts Diagnostics tool!
It seems that Mcafee was the cause of the crash, because it wants to
scan the mail messages and is not compatible with Outlook 2007.

Mark



(e-mail address removed) schreef:
Roady,


The reason I turned off the Word editor is because it causes two
problems. The first is that it vertically repeats the background image
in a stationary, which offcourse should only be in the left corner of
the mail message. The second problem exists in Outlook 2003 & 2007 (not
2000) for so far I know), which is that when you receive mails with the
stationary as I'm talking about it will crash (hang) Outlook when you
have turned on Word as the primary editor. When you close Outlook and
start it again it shows the new message and you can open it without any
problem.

I looked for a solution to this problem but Microsoft doesn't have any
article for so far I could see about this problem (either the
stationary or crash problem). Do you have any idea?


Greetings,


Mark Wolters
MCDST - MCSA - VCPBE

Roady [MVP] schreef:
...and at the same time they reduced the complixity for the end user and the
developers of Outlook add-ins.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

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Patrick Schmid said:
Because it is a slug when I am also using Revit, which is by line of
business app. Outlook is a just a sometimes use app that is now so bloated
that I can't afford to keep it open. At least when I could use a tight
native
editor instead of the Word bloatware editor I could minimize the issue.
Unfortunately Microsoft thinks their apps are the center of my universe,
and
they are not. Major bummer.
I agree that the Word editor of 2003 was a slug, but the one from 2007
really should not be. As I said, it is basically a built-in Outlook
editor just with more functionality.
How does the behavior you are describing manifest itself? And when does
it happen?
Are you saying that Outlook just uses too much memory in general? If
that's your complaint, then I doubt that the editor switch really did
anything much to increase Outlook's memory footprint. They just replaced
one built-in editor with another. The main reason they did that was
because it didn't make much sense for them to develop two editors at the
same time. So they decided to save development resources, went to one
editor and invested the development resources into other features.
 

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