Using Word 2007 as default e-mail editor in Outlook 2007

[husky86]

My question is in relation to composing e-mails in Outlook 2007:

I do not know how to set Word 2007 as the default editor for my e-mail. I
have looked in the e-mail settings (within Outlook 2007) and I cannot seem to
find the familiar "use Microsoft Word as default e-mail editor" or something
similar.

Maybe I'm blind or maybe it is now missing altogether....?

I have been using Word as my default e-mail editor for many years now. Is
it still possible to have this functionality in Office 2007?

Thanks!

 

[BillR]

Outlook 2007 uses a stub of Word 2007 as the email editor. There is no
control over this. With Word 2007 also installed a few more features are
available to Outlook such as Themes

 

[husky86]

Is there any way to control View magnification in Outlook 2007?

For instance, with my particular monitor it is best to view documents in
Microsoft Word at 150% (as far as View is concerned).

But in Outlook 2007 I cannot see any way to control this View aspect.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[BillR]

There is possibly a hard setting there but a handy trick (if you have a
mouse with a scroll wheel) is to hold down the ctrl button on your keyboard
then the mouse wheel can be used to zoom in and out. This works both in the
Reading Pane and for an open message. Outlook *should* retain what zoom
level you scrolled to.

 

[BillR]

"Outlook *should* retain what zoom
level you scrolled to.
"
should but doesn't.

 

[husky86]

Thanks very much for this information, Bill. I will go ahead and play around
with this. Hopefully Outlook 2007 will indeed remember my View
preferences/settings.

Thanks again!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Format Text-> Zoom

Instead of controlling the size per application consider changing the
dpi-settings in Windows itself.

 

[husky86]

Unfortunately, using the mouse wheel to set the View size is not a permanent
solution. The next time you use Outlook, the default View size has returned.

I'm not really sure that I want to change the DPI settings in Windows.
Because I use this computer primarily for graphics (especially for Photoshop
and other associated programs) I need the current DPI settings to remain as
they are.

If anyone else knows of how I can increase the View size in Outlook --
permanently -- please let me know. I would love to be able to solve this
problem.

As it stands now, I simply have to change the text size to about 24 while
typing, and then change it back to 12 before sending it off. This gets a
little bit tedious, to say the least.

Thanks again for any and all comments!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

And Photoshop doesn't have it's own DPI settings to overrule the Windows
default? I would expect that in graphics software. Adobe Reader has its own
DPI overrule settings as well.

The thing is now that you apparently won't be able to read things in any
application that is not using a font setting of 24 or bigger so you are
looking to change that now in every application except Photoshop. Turn it
around, change the default and scale back Photoshop makes things a lot
easier.