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In Office XP and Office 2003, word as the editor works just fine. It’s much improved over Office 2000 and Office 97 (where using word as the editor was highly discouraged) and turning it off ‘just because’ is silly, especially when many users fine they can work smarter and faster with word’s features in email.

Do you have an application (ActiveSync, WinFax, etc) that accesses Outlook addresses or messages on the problem machines? These programs will keep outlook open and cause the symptons you see. Also – put http://www.sunflowerhead.com/software/knockout%5B/url%5D on the problem machines and they can look in the tray to see if outlook closes properly.

As for disabling Word as the editor, if your users like using it then you’re better off solving the problem than hiding it by using the outlook editor.

1) none, but the more concurrent, the slower access might be. it depends on your network
2) it’s dependant on the exchange version – at least 16,000, probably 65,000 to unlimited contacts. KB-wise, limited only by the size of the database.
3) i forget if there is a limit, if so it’s like 1024 characters, but i don’t think there is unless you are moving items from a Unicode store to ANSI. (Ol2003) Copy text from a word document and see how much you can paste – then count the characters using Word’s word count toolbar.

1) none, but the more concurrent, the slower access might be. it depends on your network
2) it’s dependant on the exchange version – at least 16,000, probably 65,000 to unlimited contacts. KB-wise, limited only by the size of the database.
3) i forget if there is a limit, if so it’s like 1024 characters, but i don’t think there is unless you are moving items from a Unicode store to ANSI. (Ol2003) Copy text from a word document and see how much you can paste – then count the characters using Word’s word count toolbar.

or close outlook and rename the copied pst the same as the old one and overwrite the old one.

or close outlook and rename the copied pst the same as the old one and overwrite the old one.

Using an old profile is asking for trouble. Go into the mail applet and create a new one, it’ll prevent a lot of headaches in the long run. Otherwise, you need to go into the Address book options (tools, address book) and delete all the extra folders then add the correct ones back.

Using an old profile is asking for trouble. Go into the mail applet and create a new one, it’ll prevent a lot of headaches in the long run. Otherwise, you need to go into the Address book options (tools, address book) and delete all the extra folders then add the correct ones back.

it’s because office isn’t installed, but if you install office 97 or 95 you’ll need to do some tweaks to get spelling to work in OE6.

the file is related to your nvida video card. If you have SP2, you should also have access to the beta groups and should direct your questions there.

the file is related to your nvida video card. If you have SP2, you should also have access to the beta groups and should direct your questions there.

To change the secure attachment location, you need to edit a registry key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookSecurity

Value Name: OutlookSecureTempFolder
Date Type: REG_SZ

If the value exists, and it contains a valid path, Outlook 2002 uses that location for its temporary files.

For more information see these KB articles:

OL2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 249793

OL2002
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 296115

OL2003
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 817878

Put a shortcut on the places bar. http://www.poremsky.com/places_bar.htm%5B/url%5D

Put a shortcut on the places bar. http://www.poremsky.com/places_bar.htm%5B/url%5D

1) If you have Ol2003, why are you using an ANSI pst. If you use unicode, you lose the limit.
2) There is an article by Sue Mosher that explains the convoluted method needed to copy views (unless you use exchange server) http://www.winnetmag.com/MicrosoftExchange…tlook_8650.html%5B/url%5D