Send a letter from Word 2007 with Thu

Question to JPP29: Are you looking to send via Outlook or Thunderbird?? (no Outlook Express under Vista)

If it's via Outlook, just install it and everything's fine.
If it's WITHOUT installing Outlook (or after uninstalling it), you need the following in the Registry:
With both additions in the Registry, it works for Vista and/or XP.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem]
"InstallCmd"="rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection MSMAIL 132 msmail.inf"
"MAPI"="1"
"CMCDLLNAME32"="mapi32.dll"
"CMC"="1"
"MAPIX"="1"
"MAPIXVER"="1.0.0.1"
"OLEMessaging"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem\MSMapiApps]
"inetsw95.exe"=""
"choosusr.dll"=""
"msab32.dll"=""
"nwab32.dll"=""
"outstore.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"KEMMAPI.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpTasksCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpNotesCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpCalendarCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpContactsCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"KEM.EXE"="Microsoft Outlook"
"SearchProtocolHost.exe"="Microsoft Outlook"

This is enough to "activate" the Send options in Word

Additionally, these keys are needed for Thunderbird:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]
@="Mozilla Thunderbird"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Microsoft Outlook]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird]
@="Mozilla Thunderbird"
"DLLPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\mozMapi32.dll"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\.eml]
@="Microsoft Internet Mail Message"
"Content Type"="message/rfc822"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\Capabilities]
"ApplicationDescription"="Thunderbird is a feature-rich email application. Thunderbird manages IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. A built-in junk mail detection, RSS feed reading, fast and powerful search, spell checking while typing, a global inbox, and advanced message filtering are part of Thunderbird's modern features."
"ApplicationIcon"="C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe,0"
"ApplicationName"="Thunderbird"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\Capabilities\FileAssociations]
".eml"="ThunderbirdEML"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\Capabilities\StartMenu]
"Mail"="Mozilla Thunderbird"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\Capabilities\URLAssociations]
"mailto"="Thunderbird.Url.mailto"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\InstallInfo]
"HideIconsCommand"="\ "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\uninstall\\helper.exe\" /HideShortcuts"
"IconsVisible"=dword:00000000
"ReinstallCommand"="\ "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\uninstall\\helper.exe\" /SetAsDefaultAppGlobal"
"ShowIconsCommand"="\ "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\uninstall\\helper.exe\" /ShowShortcuts"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\protocols]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\protocols\mailto]
@="Thunderbird URL"
"URL Protocol"=""
"FriendlyTypeName"="Thunderbird URL"
"EditFlags"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\protocols\mailto\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\protocols\mailto\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\protocols\mailto\shell\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\protocols\mailto\shell\open\command]
@="\ "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe\" -osint -compose "%1" "

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\shell\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\shell\open\command]
@="\ "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe\" -mail"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\shell\properties]
@="Mozilla Thunderbird Options"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\shell\properties\command]
@="\ "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe\" -options"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\shell\safemode]
@="Safe mode"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\shell\safemode\command]
@="\ "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe\" -safe-mode"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\MSN Explorer]
@="MSN Explorer"
"LocalizedString"="@C:\\Program Files\\MSN\\MSNCoreFiles\\MSNMTLLC.DLL,-3501"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\MSN Explorer\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\MSN\\MSNCoreFiles\\msnemail.ico"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\MSN Explorer\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\MSN Explorer\shell\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\MSN Explorer\shell\open\command]
@="\ "C:\\Program Files\\MSN\\MSNCoreFiles\\MSN6.EXE\" -email"

Hello TITI,
Look at my intervention n° 6 where you copy/paste text from Windows Registry ...etc until the end in Notepad, you save the file as EMAIL.reg for example (the .reg extension is very important!!).

Then you launch Word 2007, the options should be available...

If you are using Windows Mail... that should be enough.

If you are using Mozilla Thunderbird, and if it doesn't work with it (it doesn't call Thunderbird by default), which is not certain!! then you add in the same way the additional text found in my intervention n° 4.

Thank you for keeping me updated on the result.

Hello,
Well, I see that you have some issues!! I can say that I use this option to print on PDFCreator a lot, then send the email via Acrobat Reader, especially for music sheets, scanned documents... etc.
For Office, it is still better if the intended functions work normally. I'm not an "expert," and I made my discoveries through successive trial and error. I suggest you do the same manipulations I did the day I "discovered" the solution.

Step 1) Install Outlook and obtain a "normal" functioning of Office 2007. That is to say, the Send options active and the automatic launch of Outlook when we do "Email" or "Send as attachment...."

Step 2) Run Regedit, collapse all branches (there should be 5 left). Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then SOFTWARE, then Microsoft, and finally Windows Messaging Subsystem.
Having this key selected (1 mouse click), you go to File, Export, and you export this key into a file called, for example, WinMesg.reg. The .reg extension is automatic and very important!

Step 3) This is "the highlight" of my solution! Because now you will uninstall Outlook, and this Windows Messaging Subsystem key will be, if not deleted, at least "destroyed"… and the Office options will no longer work again.

Step 4) I recommend very strongly to use CCleaner which you can download from http://www.ccleaner.com/ (I use it all the time and have no other tweaking utility... my PC never shuts down again!). This uninstalls the software that you think you have uninstalled through Add/Remove programs thoroughly. This is the real flaw of Windows, but CCleaner does a great job of fixing that. For safety, you also restart the machine (this resets the cache memory)

Step 5) After restarting, no Office software open, go to the explorer to find the WinMesg.reg file and double-click on it. It will "install" itself in Regedit... and there, in principle, if you launch Word you will find the "Send" Options active again.

I hope it works for you because otherwise, I am no longer competent!! I really don't see what could be blocking. The CCleaner step seems important to me. I have often noticed this with other uninstall/install processes; there remain keys, preferences that prevent a new installation from functioning properly.

So I systematically use this cleaner after uninstalling a software or before installing a new one.
Good luck, keep me posted!

Hello,

I'd also like to know how to send faxes from Word. My fax console doesn't allow me to send documents...... with Word when I had Office 2000 yes...

Do you know how to do it?

Hello,
Yes! That's exactly what I'm doing because Acrobat can send an email!!!
Or we save and use the paperclip to attach the file, but it's not very "classy".

On a test PC, just to see, I installed Outlook, and then the option to send an email directly from Word
is activated... By going into the settings, we see that a MAPI "set" has been installed.

However, Acrobat sends emails without MAPI, so it must be possible... but MSoft hasn't changed, they don't like
competition....
If anyone knows how to bypass this restriction or activate the option... We'll be very grateful!

elandormeur

Thank you for your very complete response, which is too complex for me as a modest user of computing.
But I forgot to give some details. I am using Vista, Windows Mail, and Internet Explorer. Now that it is more focused, thank you for replying to me.

OK it's almost the same case as mine. I don't know Windows Mail but it's like Outlook Express.

In my opinion, you just need the following registry keys: (I've put them in Italics)

Copy/Paste this text into a file you call <Messaging.reg>

Double-click on the file after saving it (anywhere)
These keys will automatically enter the "Regedit"

In principle, that's it !!!!

Close Word, reopen ... it should work.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem]
"InstallCmd"="rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection MSMAIL 132 msmail.inf"
"MAPI"="1"
"CMCDLLNAME32"="mapi32.dll"
"CMC"="1"
"MAPIX"="1"
"MAPIXVER"="1.0.0.1"
"OLEMessaging"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem\MSMapiApps]
"inetsw95.exe"=""
"choosusr.dll"=""
"msab32.dll"=""
"nwab32.dll"=""
"outstore.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"KEMMAPI.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpTasksCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpNotesCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpCalendarCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"ocpContactsCn.dll"="Microsoft Outlook"
"KEM.EXE"="Microsoft Outlook"
"SearchProtocolHost.exe"="Microsoft Outlook"

For JPP29:

Just to know if your problem is resolved correctly with my solution.
Thank you for a response.

I see in the text "Outlook Express" wouldn't it be better to put "Windows Mail" for Wista?
I am also just a modest user.
Thank you.

Sure! Of course... see the beginning of the message...

But if we don't install Outlook, the registry keys don’t exist by default...
However, I personally hate Outlook; I prefer Windows Mail or Outlook Express (XP)

Since these are two programs that we don’t install, we need to create the keys another way.

I use Thunderbird, which is ten times better (anti-spam, multiple accounts, folder hierarchy, and addresses)
and it's the same problem... we have to create the keys with my little file
A simple double-click does the work...

Or we can install Outlook and not use it!! Not a great solution!!!

I would like to know if I helped to solve the "schmilblick" and if JPP29 is working as he wishes....
That's all... Best regards to everyone.

Hello everyone,
I just bought a laptop with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 installed.
However, with Word 2007, it's impossible to send Word documents as email attachments; the button for this function is present in the toolbar but is grayed out and cannot be used. What should I do?
Does anyone have the same problem or can help me?

Dear Sleepy Elan
Before proceeding with the operation you described, I would like to point out that I am using Orange Mail and not Windows Mail, and I am on Windows Vista. Can I still carry out the operation without any damage?
Thank you for your help.
Titi

Orange Mail = internet connection ... and we find ourselves on the Orange website????

If that's the case, there is no solution to your problem,

You need a MAIL client on your computer: Windows Mail, Thunderbird, or Outlook (heavy and not convenient!)

If you are using the Internet browser to connect to Orange... then it's an attachment to download... but Office 2007 can't do anything directly....

Finally, I don't know of any possible solution for this scenario.

I created the reg as indicated above, merged it, and it works even with Thunderbird
----------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem]
"InstallCmd"="rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection MSMAIL 132 msmail.inf"
"MAPI"="1"
"CMCDLLNAME32"="mapi32.dll"
"CMC"="1"
"MAPIX"="1"
"MAPIXVER"="1.0.0.1"
"OLEMessaging"="1"
---------------

JM

Hello,

These modifications to be made to the registry also apply to Excel and may also apply to PowerPoint, but I haven't verified it.
However, to send an image from Office Picture Manager, it is necessary to have Outlook installed.
--

JM

Working in an administration, we had Outlook uninstalled in favor of Thunderbird-Icasso to save on servers... I won't write what these savings are for, you can probably guess.
Personally, it's like a flat key that costs 50 cents and the same one that costs 3 euros.
With Outlook, I could see everything in the menu column. Not only the mailbox but also the calendar of all the people in my department and all my contacts. With Thunderbird, you have to click on an icon to access the calendars of others and type the first letters of their name, and for contacts, you also have to click on an icon.
With Outlook, if you emptied the trash, you could still recover those deleted items, which is not the case with Thunderbird.
With Outlook, if you accidentally deleted a contact folder, you could recover it, which is not the case with Thunderbird unless you have backed up.
With Outlook, you could share contacts, which is not the case with Thunderbird.
And there are others...
--

JM

Installation and usage instructions for CCleaner

At one point, a screen will appear with lots of checkboxes; you only leave checked:
Add "Open CCleaner..." to the recycle bin context menu and
Automatically check for CCleaner updates

Afterward, every time it tells you that a new version is available... you download and install it, being careful with the options above.

What we are interested in is the Registry chapter (large icon on the left) button "Scan for Issues" You repair...and answer yes everywhere except to the registry backup (not necessary).

For fine-tuning CCleaner settings you can ask, it's another folder!!!

Hello,

My issue is different, since Office 2007:

Under W7, Office cannot remember the use of Windows Live Mail. No matter how many times I confirm the default software, every time I reopen/start it, I get the same error message: please connect to Exchange to use the address book (I'm quoting from memory).

However,

If I launch an email from Acrobat, without doing anything else, I can send a file via email from Office 2007 using the dedicated icon!

If any of you have an idea?

Thank you in advance.

I cannot send an email directly from Word 2007. I am confronted with a window that indicates that "Word has stopped working." Can someone help me? Thank you in advance.