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Cannot send as attachment from Word if Outlook is not open

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nelifecare

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Interesting issue appeared a few weeks back that I haven't been able to resolve.

If I have Word and Outlook running, I can send Word documents as attachments from within Word without issue.

IF I do not have Outlook open, I cannot. Outlook is launched BUT I have to end task it because appears to do nothing.

Any thoughts?
 
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nelifecare,
to the best of my knowledge you need to have outlook (or another email program) open to send mail (unless using blat or something similar). how would your applications know your mailserver, your mailbox, - there is no way to prove that you are an authenticated user.
are you saying that you could send mail from word or excel previously without outlook being open.

longhair
 
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I guess I should rephrase...

If Outlook is not open, Word launches Outlook for you, asks you to pick a profile which is always the default profile, the email message would appear, the user could type their message, hit send, and then return to Word.
 
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I would suggest reregistering Word and Outlook for starters: the easiest would be to run Detect and Repair from either under Help. That will reregister all the installed Office apps. Then check under Control Panel, Internet Options that the default applications are set to Outlook for Email and Word for text.


Regards: tf1
 
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