I have a laptop that will occasionally somewhat freeze up in the middle
of creating a new email message. What happens is, when creating an
email that includes inserts such as calendar appointments and tasks,
the email will not save to draft.

As long as this new email message is open, it will appear in the drafts
folder, however if this email message is closed it will be deleted from
drafts and does not give you the option to save. Furthermore, I am
unable to send this email message or save this draft email in other
formats such as web page or doc.

What makes this problem even stranger, is that I can't even copy paste
this email to a new email message. Only thing I have found to fix
this, is to delete whatever was inserted into the email and it will
then allow me to use the email like normal.


Is a reinstall or a reformat my only chance of possibly correcting this?

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I have a laptop that will occasionally somewhat freeze up in the
middle of creating a new email message. What happens is, when
creating an email that includes inserts such as calendar appointments
and tasks, the email will not save to draft.

As long as this new email message is open, it will appear in the
drafts folder, however if this email message is closed it will be
deleted from drafts and does not give you the option to save.
Furthermore, I am unable to send this email message or save this
draft email in other formats such as web page or doc.

What makes this problem even stranger, is that I can't even copy paste
this email to a new email message. Only thing I have found to fix
this, is to delete whatever was inserted into the email and it will
then allow me to use the email like normal.


Is a reinstall or a reformat my only chance of possibly correcting
this?

Are you using Word as your email editor (and is the behavior the same if you
change this)?
What SP for Outlook?
What kind of mail account(s) do you use?