Editing mail message, storing

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

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 07:52:43 GMT

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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