wrote:

When attempting to change the options to use word as the editor in
outlook 2003 I instantly get the prompt "A program is trying to access
e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow
this?" This happens when ever we hit the new E-mail. It does not
stop us from being able to send or even see the addresses.

I have tried to change the security settings but all that does is
change the security features for everything. If I change the settings
back to not use Word as the editor it no longer prompts me for
approval.

Sounds like you may have a Word add-in that don't work well with the Outlook
Object Model Guard. See if something hee helps:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm
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Brian Tillman