Word won't recognise Outloook Express as default email handler

[JC]

I use Outlook Express for email and it is set up as my default email handler but when merging to email Word sends merged emails to Outlook where they get stuck as I don't use Outlook for email. How can I get Word to recognise OE as my default email handler? (was OK on previous machine but have just switched to Windows XP, using Word 97 and OE 6)

 

[Peter Jamieson]

First, I think you should ask in an Outlook group.

Second, you can try the following for starters:

It sounds as if you have Outlook on your machine even though you do not
actually use it for mail. But if you have not actually run Outlook once, or
have not used it for e-mail once, I would do that first as it may be
"stuck".

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Peter Jamieson
MS Word MVP

I use Outlook Express for email and it is set up as my default email

handler but when merging to email Word sends merged emails to Outlook where
they get stuck as I don't use Outlook for email. How can I get Word to
recognise OE as my default email handler? (was OK on previous machine but
have just switched to Windows XP, using Word 97 and OE 6)