Sorry I missed the Windows Mail/Outlook Express nomenclature. I use Windows
Mail but keep calling it Outlook Express. I will jump on the band wagon soon
enough.

My suggestion above pertains to my combo of Vista, MSOffice Word 2007 and
Windows Mail. This also works with MS Excel 2007.





"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi OspreyEye,

The Office Button=Send to link is a Send as Attachment choice. In Windows XP it will work with Thunderbird, Outlook Express or
Outlook set as the default email client. Outlook 2007 does not use Word as the email editor, it uses its own Word 'clone' and if
Outlook 2007 is the default email client you get different message editors in Word from the QAT and Office=Send to options.

The Send to Mail Recipient item on the QAT will allow you to send document content from within Word with the same clients, but don't
be surprised if the resulting HTML email received by others, especially if you have inserted pictures and resized them, doesn't look
the way you saw it when you sent it.

Did you install Outlook Express in Vista separately? Windows Mail (Outlook Express successor) has been reported as not working from
the QAT in Vista.

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"OspreyEye" wrote in message ...
As I see it now, there is no way to correct the "disappearing grayed out
Email link" under the Pie Plate yet. HOWEVER, there is a way of having this
internal function available WITHOUT correcting the Pie Plate issue, and to
create an even more accessible function key for sending EMail.

Put the SEND TO MAIL RECIPIENT link on the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
instead of the EMAIL link. The EMAIL link on the QAT is also grayed out on my
MS WORD 2007/Vista and cannot be used.

To place this link on the QAT, go to the QAT dropdown on MS Word 2007. Drop
down to:
MORE COMMANDS
CHOOSE COMMANDS FROM:
ALL COMMANDS
SEND TO MAIL RECIPIENT

After you have added the SEND TO MAIL RECIPIENT to the QAT, use that to send
the document you are working on to the recipient. This works on VISTA with MS
WORD 2007 and OUTLOOK EXPRESS. You will not need the EMAIL link on the QAT,
just the SEND TO MAIL RECIPIENT.

Forget the Pie Plate EMail link; leave that to MS to work out on a later
mod. Let me know if this does not work on your combo of programs. Also,
please tell me why this works on mine.

Safe travelling - blue side up!
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*