Choosing an editor for OE

In Outlook for MS Office, I have used Word as the text editor. While Express does more than I need or want, I wish I could use Word as the editor there too.

On the IE Tools>Internet Options>Programs tab, we can select
only Word as the HTML editor, but for email there is a choice of programs which contains Outlook Express. Is there a way to make Word OE’s text editor? What is it that points to Word in IE and Outlook but not in Outlook Express?

 

Although I only have Outlook Express installed, in Word 2000 if you open a new document and go to File > Send To > Mail Recipient, it should use your default e-mail client. Is this what you are asking?

 

Actually, I’d like to combine the simplicty of OE with the word processing power of MS Word. I think Outlook Express uses Notepad as its text editor.

What I would like to do "” and I think it might be available only because in "Programs" I see Word as the default HTML editor in Internet Explorer "” is to swap Word for Notepad. I think these applications run inside the other applications, but reside outside them.

It’s the "inside" part that I don’t understand.

 

Outlook Express does not use NotePad as its editor. OE is its own application and doesn't support any other editor but it's own.

 

Bummer.

But If I choose Outlook for my default email program, to take advantage of the Word editor, would I do some kind of "import" to get all my Express stuff into the new program?

 

Why not just set Outlook Express as the default e-mail client? Then in Word, when you go to File > Send To... > Mail Recipient it will use Outlook Express. If I am still misunderstanding you, maybe someone else can jump in.

 

I guess I never thought of that. It means starting Word, and mailing from there, right?

I have just tried that and it works for the purpose you explain. This a great way to write a long message that a poor typist like myself can easily edit. It does put the document into an attachment, instead of the body of an email.

And I don’t think it can be made to readily work for replies and forwards. But I’m beginning to think, if I just use Microsoft Outlook as the default, it automatically uses Word.

As an aside, I’m writing this in Word to use its power. Then I paste it into the BB window. But once it’s in there, I have noticed, only simple text editing can be done. I can’t insert a smilie or do bold, underline or Italics, as these commands always go to the end of the document. (Reminds me of writing in Unix text editor.)

Being such a klutz, I wish there were a spell checker on this input program (and all others) because I can make up speed by typing and checking. And I like having my spelling read right. Still, I’m sorry to admit, in this age of universal access to cyberspace, we are on the verge of accepting the simplest use of the language, errors notwithstanding.