Re: Editing mail message, storing

From: Roady [MVP] (newsgroups_DELETE__at__DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:09:45 +0100

Make sure Outlook is not set as your e-mail editor;
Tools-> Options-> tab Mail Format

You can also automate what you are doing right now by means of an add-in;

http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/Attachment-Save.asp?Source=RS
If you decide to order use "BH93RF24" to get a discount 

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"Steven M (to reply, remove the cola)" <unspam@houston.rrcola.com> wrote in 
message news:l29o40ljmc026bteb2kfcbe2fputsed3c5@4ax.com...
> With Outlook 2000:
>
> In order to keep my PST file small enough to fit on a CD-ROM, and
> still keep several years of emails available, for the past couple of
> years I have been keeping the size of the PST file down by deleting
> the large attachments that I send and receive every week.
>
> To do this, I go to the personal folders, then do an Advanced Find for
> items with attachments that are over a certain size (usually about 600
> KB).  Then I open each message, click Edit / Edit message, go to the
> attachments, begin a Save As command to get the name of the
> attachment, but abort without saving, and paste the filename at the
> bottom of the message.  I do this for all the attachments in the
> message (usually only one or two).
>
> This works fine, most of the time.  But for the past few months, a new
> customer has been sending emails that are causing a problem.  I
> suppose they are being created in Word.  When I click on Edit / Edit
> Message, it opens the Word editor.  If I add the names of the
> attachments, and then close the editor, it prompts me to save the
> message as a Word file.
>
> That's not what I want.  I want to edit the message, deleting the
> attachments and adding the names of the deleted files, but leave
> everything else about the message as an ordinary Mail Item.
>
> Is there any way I can force these messages to be edited using the
> regular Outlook message editor, and not Word?
>
>
>
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