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My friendly new dictators gray out the ability to check use MS word as your email editor in Outlook.

I’m guessing this is because of a group policy and I have to go into the Registry and delete something to remove the block and get it to work correctly. I’ve tried googling but didn’t have much luck.

I’m not the most computer literate person out there so if any you can help me figure out a way around this I would be grateful.

Thank you in advance,

fayz, this usually happens if you have Word 2000 and Outlook 2003. You wont be able to use word as an editor for email unless the versions are compatible. i.e Word 2003 and Outlook 2003.

MaaaD wrote:fayz, this usually happens if you have Word 2000 and Outlook 2003. You wont be able to use word as an editor for email unless the versions are compatible. i.e Word 2003 and Outlook 2003.

Even though there should be no reason why this is the case, its to passively get you to upgrade the rest of Office.

That said, using Word to write emails is the pits, plus you need an instance of Word open everytime you have Outlook open which hogs resources.

To Enable regedit & bypassing Your Group Policy, use : gpedit.msc located in your system32 folder. If you cannot access your system32 folder or gpedit.msc is hidden or unavailable, go to: start -> run -> mmc

Add snap in for : Group Polocy Object Editor.

Disable - Restrictions for Registry editing tools, Save the MCS.

And you can access the registry editor.

Best of Luck

^ian^ wrote:

MaaaD wrote:fayz, this usually happens if you have Word 2000 and Outlook 2003. You wont be able to use word as an editor for email unless the versions are compatible. i.e Word 2003 and Outlook 2003.

Even though there should be no reason why this is the case, its to passively get you to upgrade the rest of Office.

That said, using Word to write emails is the pits, plus you need an instance of Word open everytime you have Outlook open which hogs resources.

absolutely, plain text emails all the way

but you also have the option of downgrading too to make them compatible.

Thank you guys,

MS Outlook and Word are both 2003

I agree word as an editor has many downfalls but I use a lot of macros and formatting options in emails that i write so with all its downsides it does what I need it to, plus the spell check is better which for me is a necessity.

Ahamed I got into gpedit.msc, I'm going through the policies now

Thanks again,
Fayz

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