Re: Editing mail message, storing

From: Steven M (to reply, remove the cola) (unspam_at_houston.rrcola.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:35:07 GMT

Roady,

This doesn't make sense to me. I would prefer to KEEP Outlook as my
e-mail editor, and that's what I see most of the time. It's just that
in the emails sent by one particular sender, and my replies to those
emails, bring up the Word editor instead of the Outlook editor.

Can you please explain some more?

I have seen the Sperry page, and that might be useful. However, the
macros I'm working on are very close to doing exactly what I want.

Steven

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:09:45 +0100, "Roady [MVP]"
<newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:

>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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>>
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>> public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
> 

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