Outlook must be already open to send from another Office application. This is true for all versions of Office/Outlook.

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After furious head scratching, red60man asked:

| hi, thanks for the tips. but my second part of the question was some
| thing like this::
|
| I have an excel sheet with email column, when i click the email
| address in that column, outlook compose box is opened using word
| editor. when i click send button from there it sends the message to
| outbox of oultlook and is closed without asking for credentials.
|
| It is here i want it to ask for some credentials rather than storing
| it in outbox. Because now in order to send the message i have to open
| outlook and either say send/receive or press f5 as u said.
|
| If somehow i could make it to ask for credentials when i press the
| send button in outlook compose box (which is opened using word
| editor) then everything is done in one shot
|
| otherwise i again need to open outlook and then press F5 or
| send/receive which will be an unneccessary extra step