Cannot use Word as email editor

I use Outlook and Word 2003. In Outlook, I have always used Word as the email editor. Over the last few days I have been receiving a message that “MS Word cannot be used as the email editor because Word is unavailable, not installed or not the same version as Outlook. The Outlook email editor will be used instead.”

If I then go into Tool, Options I find that the tick in the box confirming Word should be used as an email editor has been removed. If I re-tick, and try again, I receive the same problem.

I have run a Detect & Repair in both Outlook and Word and this does not solve the problem from occuring.

Enlarge font in Reading Pane

We use Outlook and my employer has trouble reading some email that is displayed on his hi-res monitor because the font sizes display so small. Is it possible to enlarge the display of a received email either in the Reading Pane or after opening it? He doesn’t like using Magnifier. Is there another option?

Search partial string

Can I use wildcards when using Instant Search in Outlook 2007? It appears that I have to type the EXACT word to find anything. In previous versions of Outlook I could use also only part of a word to find it.

Example: On Subject line: Jims Warehouse x027886

With 2000 I could type 2788 and find the record.
With 2007 I have to type x02788 to find the record.

I’ve checked all the indexing and It all seems correct.

Mail Merge with attachment

I want to include a document in my mail merge. I cannot find an option to do this when starting the mail merge from Outlook or from Word. How can I do this?

Can’t open attached messages

When I receive an email message from someone with an attached message I can’t open the attached message; it does not open and I get no error messages. What’s wrong?

Changing Calendar size in Navigation Pane

For an reason unknown to me my little calendar at the top of the Navigation Pane in Outlook has doubled, maybe tripled in size. Does anyone have any suggestions how I might restore it to it’s original small size? Nothing else has changed in the Pane but that.

Set POP3 as the default when connecting to Exchange

I have two accounts configured in Outlook. One is an Exchange server and the other is a POP3 account. I have the POP3 account set as the default account but everytime I restart Outlook the Exchange server is set as the default again. How can I make the POP3 account stick as the default?

Outlook sending multiple copies of email

I’m running Outlook 2007 on Vista Business and am having a problem with Outlook sending multiple copies of some emails - usually those with attachments. It doesn’t happen with evey email with attachments, just
occasionally. It will send it 20-30 times but keep the email in my Outbox saying that it hasn’t been sent (although sometimes it says it’s been sent but stays in the Outbox). Can anyone help?

Error when moving an email

When I try to move emails from the Inbox of the Mailbox of the Exchange Server to the Inbox of the Personal Folders (.pst) I get an error that says:
“Can’t move the items. Could not Move the item. The original was either moved or deleted, or access was denied.”

Any ideas of why this is happenning? He was able to move them for one day, but the next day this message pops up.

Keeping track of communication threads

I’ve been trying to figure out how to group all the communication revolving around one topic. The topics are not on-going, as in over weeks and months. However, frequently, numerous people reply to an email over the courser of a few days but not in sequence. I want to be able to group them together or do something that keeps me keep track of all of them so I can reference.