Unfortunately, there is no equivalent Help article for developers. I've stumbled across some unexpected problems in my testing related to moving around in the Word editor in a mail message. However, I don't know anything about this specific DDE issue.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Greg Mansius [MSFT]" wrote in message ...

Whether or not you have Word 2007 installed, you will always have "Word" as
your e-mail editor in Outlook 2007. If you don't have Word 2007 installed
you have a few less features, but "Word" is still your editor. This is
because the functionality comes from wwlib.dll and not from Winword.exe. If
you query the Outlook 2007 Help on "editor" I think you'll find a topic that
talks about features available with/without Word 2007 installed.

"Christian Gröbner [MVP]" wrote in message
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Another question. Under Outlook 2003 we didn't used Word as E-Mail
editior. In Outlook 2007 you can't configure this option any more, because
it has is an own editor. But if you have Word installed on the machine it
looks like that word is used as editor.

We have an application (CRM) that automatically creates documents filled
with address and so on over DDE. This works find as long as Outlook 2007
is closed. But if Outlook 2007 is opened we get DDE-Errors.

Do you know any regkey or option where I can change this behavior?