An "open dialog box" means, for example, you have clicked on "Tools" and
then "Options" to look at or change an option setting in Outlook. Outlook
wants to have that box (or window) closed before it will do anything else.
I'm not saying that is exactly what is happening in your case...that is just
an example of an open dialog box.

But if you are certain no such window or box is open at the time of the
error message, then you have a problem. Post back and someone will help you
further.

Tim

"Maineiac" wrote in message
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Sometimes when I create an email and hit send, I get the message that I
need
to close an open dialog box first.

What does this mean? Why does it come up? How do I fix it so I can send
the email?

I think once I got around the problem by saving it as a draft--though I am
not sure how to do that. I obviously am a novice with Outlook, generally
being an AOL user.