Using Word2003 as the email editor is fine (unlike previous versions). You
just have to know that Microsoft kept secret certain behaviour patterns -
such that if Outlook is open and you have opened Word, even though you close
Word, it still stays open but hidden unless the system demands greater hunks
of memory than is free to the system. This is solely a performance
'enhancement' to speed up creating and editing emails. That's why Word will
keep incrementing the blank document until both Word and Outlook have been
closed together. We have many users that leave Word and Outlook running all
day: it really doesn't matter that the blank document increments - as long
as you know why! Some users deliberately dirty the blank document so that it
never closes itself.
Terry Farrell
message : This is only one of many reasons that people here recommend not using Word
: as an email editor. It generally messes up using it as a Word processor
and
: gives you emails that are not plain text.
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: Charles Kenyon
:
: Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
:
: Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
: Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide
:
: See also the MVP FAQ:
http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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: from my ignorance and your wisdom.
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: : > Well, I figured out what was going on. He had at least
: > one unfinished email open almost all the time. This was
: > acting as his sort of foundational Word document so,
: > naturally, his doc count kept going up, and when he
: > clicked File/Close, he WAS only closing out that document
: > because Word was still open in the form of his unfinished
: > email composition. Geez, I have pondered this problem
: > for hours and only stumbled across the solution when I
: > noticed an unsent, open email in his task bar. Problem
: > solved.
: >
: >
: >>-----Original Message-----
: >>I have the weirdest thing going on. One staff person
: > has
: >>this problem out of 50. He clicks File/close and Word
: >>closes. I just set him up with a brand new PC, new
: >>Office 2003 install, and all was fine yesterday. I
: >>opened and closed a number of docs with no problem.
: >>Today he informs me it's happening again. I can find no
: >>settings to change to stop this from happening.
: >>Obviously, it's very aggravating. There are other
: >>oddities - the task pane doesn't come up any more, each
: >>new document, regardless of whether or not he has closed
: >>Word, is numbered at the next higher number instead of
: >>starting over at 1. Any assistance will be greatly
: >>appreciated.
: >>.
: >>
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