Word/Excel 2007 - Cannot Send to Recipient as Attachment

[devistated]

I am very frustrated trying to do something that was routine in Office 2003
but which so far seems impossible in my Office 2007. While in a document or a
spreadsheet, I want to send that document or spreadsheet to a recipient as an
attachment. The Office Help tells me --for both Excel and Word -- that all I
have to do is go to the SEND (in the Office Button) and then click on the
EMAIL icon. In Excel, there simply is no such EMAIL icon under SEND (which
only has FAX). In Word, there is an EMAIL icon, but it is grayed out and
disabled.

This is a function that I use extensively. So I really need the answer on
this.

 

[ohnonotnow!]

i can only tell you that in excel i have both, with the fax grayed out;
in word i have both with neither grayed out. if i were to need, i would
start by looking in options and whether protection being on affects such.
good luck. looking forward to the answers you get.

//onnn!

 

[Bob I]

Make sure Outlook 2007 is set as your default E-mail handler in in
Control Panel, Internet options, Programs.

 

[bhk]

Extract from online help for WORD:=

quote

If you do not see an E-mail command, it might because you are using a
Microsoft Office suite that does not include Microsoft Office Outlook, such
as Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007. However, even if you install
Outlook as a standalone program, you still might not see the command. For
more information about how to see the E-mail command, see KB 918792: E-mail
command is missing.

unquote

It is usually easier to read the Help files and/or knowledge base first.

bhk

 

[devistated]

When the Office Help (which I DID read and which I did search in many
different searches to try to find a better answer) gives a message that
points nowhere else, I do not know where to find whatever it is that you
copied and pasted. If the help is not good enough to point to such places,
then it is not very good help.

I am running Windows Mail. In Office 2003, Office integrated with Outlook
Express (the predecessor to Windows Mail). Are they saying that Office 2007
will only integrate with Outlook? In reading the KB 918792 text, I see no
mention of any alternative for anything other than integrating with Outlook.

 

[Dwarf]

Hi devistated,

Have a look at this thread from another forum which I use. It should answer
your question.
Dwarf

http://www.vistax64.com/microsoft-office/178115-word-2007-send-buttton-greyed-out.html

 

[devistated]

Thanks very much. For the sake of people who are following this thread, here
is what I did from Dwarf's instructions in the thread below that now has me
able to use Windows Mail to send to recipient as attachment from within Word
and Excel.


Copy this piece of code into 'Notepad' and save it with a '.bat' extension.
Give it a meaningful name, such as 'Office 2007 Email Patch.bat'.

@ECHO OFF
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem" /v MAPI /t
REG_SZ /d 1 /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem" /v CMC /t
REG_SZ /d 1 /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem" /v CMCDLLNAME
t/ REG_SZ /d Mapi.dll /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem" /v
CMCDLLNAME32 /t REG_SZ /d Mapi32.dll /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem" /v MAPIX /t
REG_SZ /d 1 /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem" /v MAPIXVER /t
REG_SZ /d 1.0.0.1 /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem" /v
OLEMessaging /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f

Right click on the batch file and select 'Run as administrator'. After
providing administrative credentials, the file will execute and the data will
be merged into the registry.

Apparently Microsoft does not care how ridiculous it makes them look that
this problem has not been resolved somehow through a fix of Office 2007. Any
time that ordinary user has to modify the registry to get a Microsoft product
to work, that is a certain sign of failure by Microsoft.