Outlook plain text setting
However, I want to prevent the use of Word as an email editor, but not limit the users ability to choose a format. “I have setting in Group Policy to control this. Keith: Not if you alter the registry key. Is there a way to change the default editor without having to restart Outlook? The versions have had to match for every version of Office that has been released, AFAIK. Stewart: Sorry, there’s no way to trick it. I assume this is deliberate by Microsoft to force you into upgrading all Office rather than just Outlook. At the moment the option is greyed out, and users can no longer send HTML messages. Is there a way to “trick” Outlook into using Word 2002 as the email editor.
I have just upgraded a client’s exchange server to 2003, and have also upgraded clients to Outlook to 2003. “Unable to use Word 2002 as email editor with Outlook 2003 If your e-mail address is in your Contacts or Address Book, you also have an options to configure this setting for that particular address (works for other entries as well, so your sending options can be configured per-person). Whenever other pople send me HTML it looks just fine with the pics inserted/embedded?īarb: I can’t recall what the settings are in Outlook 2002, but in 2003 you can configure the format of outgoing e-mails – see Tools -> Options -> Mail Format -> Internet Format. I tried to forward an email with GIFS inserted and the email arrived with GIFS as attachments. No, what I am saying is I don’t understand when I send an email HTML (to myself) it arrives in palin text. Oooops, I forgot to say I am using Outlook 2002 SP3 How can I make sure I receive mail sent in HTML and copied to myself from the incoming plain text to HTML? The end of this blog entry contains the text of the comments applicable to this posting that I was able to recover. Just use your favourite registry API calls or wrapper classes for read/write access.ĭue to data loss with OfficeZealot’s blog server, all comments posted between April 28 and June 8, 2005 to any of my blog entries were inadvertently deleted. Knowing where and what these settings are could be valuable if you have an application that needs to detect or modify them. UseWordMail = 1 (to read Rich Text Email key does not exist if never set, 0 if off) Here are the possible values, in decimal format: Outlook (versions 2000/2002/2003) stores the settings that you see under Tools|Options|Mail Format|Message Format section in the follow registry key: