You do get an Inspector and the NewInspector event from a WordMail item
being opened if you are using Outlook 2002 or later. Not for Outlook 2000 or
earlier. Not much you can do about that other than not support WordMail for
Outlook 2000.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
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Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
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"David Wendt" wrote in message
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Rog,
Thanks. The problem is that when Word is my email editor, I cannot seem to
add a button to it from my Outlook Add-in. The following is from MSDN:

"The Inspector Object and Microsoft Word as the User's E-mail Editor
If the user's default e-mail editor is Microsoft Word, and if the message
format of the item being edited is plain text or HTML, then no Inspector
object is associated with the item."

I verified this running in debug. I get an exception when trying to access
the Inspector of the mail item.

If I create a Word Add-in which shows a button in Word invoked as the
email editor, this add-in does not have access to the Outlook objects. Of
course, what I really want is to add the button to the email-editor-Word
instance from an Outlook Add-in. Or, I'd like to access the mail-item
associated with the email-editor-Word instance from a Word Add-in.

Any help getting around the 'no inspector' issue using Word as an email
editor?

David Wendt