Thanks for your help in advance.

I am in a Domino/Notes shop, but do have Outlook 2003 installed on my
hard drive. I recently got it to work with the Domino server, using
Microsoft's Notes connector. My system also has the rest of Office
2003 installed (including Word 2003.) Everything in Outlook seems to
work great (I can send and receive email, can see calendars, etc.)

However, Outlook forces me to use its internal HTML email editor to
compose email. I would like to use Microsoft Word. When I go to
Tools -- Options -- Mail Format, the two boxes relating to the use
of MS Word 2003 as email editor are grayed out. I would like to use
MS Word so I can have access to the shared spell checker, and because
Word is already well setup with our shop's document management system,
which makes it easier to send attachments from that system.

I searched around and learned that similar problems are encountered
when Outlook and Word are of different versions. However, mine are
both 2003, and I have not seen anything about folks having similar
issues. Any suggestions on how (or whether) I can enable the Wordmail
function?

Alex