Re: Outlook 2003 HTML Mailing

From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] (suemvp_at_outlookcode.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:27:09 -0400

If they have Office 2003, but can't use Word 2003 as their email editor,
something may be seriously wrong with their installation. I'd suggest
running Help | Detect and Repair. 

-- 
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
     Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
     Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
     http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx
"Neil Penn" <neil.penn@btinternet.com> wrote in message 
news:OxHrx6NkEHA.1904@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Office 2003
> Windows XP
>
> I have written an application for our marketing department to take an HTML
> page and use it to generate an Outlook HTML email.
>
> This is done using the shdocvw.dll Internet control to extract HTML and
> image details from the web page and generate an Outlook HTML mail using 
> code
> from the Microsoft Outlook support web site.
>
> This all works fine on my PC and our test PCs, but the marketing person
> testing the app is reporting an unable to create activex control error.
>
> Because we are in a different geographical location I am writing 
> additional
> error logging into the application but the only thing I can think is the
> problem is the shdocvw.dll  Internet control.
>
> I have checked that they have the latest version of Internet Explorer
> installed and they have the shdocvw.dll.
>
> The only thing that seems strange in their setup is they can't use Word 
> 2003
> as their HTML editor.
>
> Can anyone think what might be causing the problem?
>
>

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