Thank you mus. Thus the difficulty owes to some kind of obscure interaction between Word and Outlook. But after several decades why is it that among the tens of millions millions of PC users that I am the only person in the entire world of the Internet suffering from this problem

I cannot entertain in my wildest fantasies the idea that if what you say is true Microsoft hasn't hear about it from a single customer

At this late date the concept of relinquishing Word editing when composing email is tantamount to abandoning my PC for a typewriter

Myr: We're not all computer experts willing to spend thousands of hours of our remaining existence in the 24/7 study of computer programs and their manifest glitches and anomalies

God love Bill Gates

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