Windows Mail and Office 2007 not working

Hey everyone, I've got a problem that I hope someone can help with. I have
Windows Vista Home Premium and am using the included Windows Mail. The
program so far works great with my Gmail account. I also have Office 2007
Home and Student, and this is where my issue is. In Word, OneNote, and Excel
2007, I cannot send emails through the programs. If I have a Word document,
hit File (or whatever that symbol is)>Send, the "E-mail" function is grayed
out and unavailable. The "Fax Services" button is available, but I don't
have a fax client. This is the same in Word, Excel, and OneNote 2007.

Now for the strange part: if I do the same thing in Power Point 2007
(File>Send>E-mail), the "E-mail" button is fully funcional and I can send
Power Point presentations just fine using Windows Mail.

What would cause me to not have e-mail functionality in Word, Excel, and One
Note 2007 but still have it fully functional in Power Point 2007? I have
tried comparing and contrasting the security and Trust settings in the
different programs, and they all seem to be the same. I have Windows Mail
set as my default mail client with no other email clients installed. Thanks
everyone for your help.

Rich

Rich have same problem, does anyone know how to fix this

Tim

"Rich" wrote:

> Hey everyone, I've got a problem that I hope someone can help with. I have
> Windows Vista Home Premium and am using the included Windows Mail. The
> program so far works great with my Gmail account. I also have Office 2007
> Home and Student, and this is where my issue is. In Word, OneNote, and Excel
> 2007, I cannot send emails through the programs. If I have a Word document,
> hit File (or whatever that symbol is)>Send, the "E-mail" function is grayed
> out and unavailable. The "Fax Services" button is available, but I don't
> have a fax client. This is the same in Word, Excel, and OneNote 2007.
>
> Now for the strange part: if I do the same thing in Power Point 2007
> (File>Send>E-mail), the "E-mail" button is fully funcional and I can send
> Power Point presentations just fine using Windows Mail.
>
> What would cause me to not have e-mail functionality in Word, Excel, and One
> Note 2007 but still have it fully functional in Power Point 2007? I have
> tried comparing and contrasting the security and Trust settings in the
> different programs, and they all seem to be the same. I have Windows Mail
> set as my default mail client with no other email clients installed. Thanks
> everyone for your help.
>
> Rich

Check the Office newsgroups would be best.

Outlook (by design) takes control as the default email client.

Go into All Programs | Default Programs and try top reset the default email
program you want to use. Might try switching back and forth a time or two
and see if it kicks it in the rear and gets it going.


"Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news83BF562-F30D-4710-AD15-98DE6B6A573A@microsoft.com...
> Hey everyone, I've got a problem that I hope someone can help with. I
> have
> Windows Vista Home Premium and am using the included Windows Mail. The
> program so far works great with my Gmail account. I also have Office 2007
> Home and Student, and this is where my issue is. In Word, OneNote, and
> Excel
> 2007, I cannot send emails through the programs. If I have a Word
> document,
> hit File (or whatever that symbol is)>Send, the "E-mail" function is
> grayed
> out and unavailable. The "Fax Services" button is available, but I don't
> have a fax client. This is the same in Word, Excel, and OneNote 2007.
>
> Now for the strange part: if I do the same thing in Power Point 2007
> (File>Send>E-mail), the "E-mail" button is fully funcional and I can send
> Power Point presentations just fine using Windows Mail.
>
> What would cause me to not have e-mail functionality in Word, Excel, and
> One
> Note 2007 but still have it fully functional in Power Point 2007? I have
> tried comparing and contrasting the security and Trust settings in the
> different programs, and they all seem to be the same. I have Windows Mail
> set as my default mail client with no other email clients installed.
> Thanks
> everyone for your help.
>
> Rich

Tim, here's the answer that worked for me:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/9187...=11377&sid=139

Do option 2. You have to modify the registry, but as soon as I did that I
gained email functionality of Windows Mail in all of my programs without even
having to restart. All of those registry entries were missing in mine, check
to see if they are missing in yours. I hope that this helps.

Rich

"tim" wrote:

> Rich have same problem, does anyone know how to fix this
>
> Tim
>
> "Rich" wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone, I've got a problem that I hope someone can help with. I have
> > Windows Vista Home Premium and am using the included Windows Mail. The
> > program so far works great with my Gmail account. I also have Office 2007
> > Home and Student, and this is where my issue is. In Word, OneNote, and Excel
> > 2007, I cannot send emails through the programs. If I have a Word document,
> > hit File (or whatever that symbol is)>Send, the "E-mail" function is grayed
> > out and unavailable. The "Fax Services" button is available, but I don't
> > have a fax client. This is the same in Word, Excel, and OneNote 2007.
> >
> > Now for the strange part: if I do the same thing in Power Point 2007
> > (File>Send>E-mail), the "E-mail" button is fully funcional and I can send
> > Power Point presentations just fine using Windows Mail.
> >
> > What would cause me to not have e-mail functionality in Word, Excel, and One
> > Note 2007 but still have it fully functional in Power Point 2007? I have
> > tried comparing and contrasting the security and Trust settings in the
> > different programs, and they all seem to be the same. I have Windows Mail
> > set as my default mail client with no other email clients installed. Thanks
> > everyone for your help.
> >
> > Rich

Office 2007 does not accept windows mail as default e-mail. You may work
around this by opening your windows mail and add the desired office
selection as an attachment. This will work with word, excel and power point
each time.

or
You may go to your "Documents" scroll to what you want to send as e-mail;
right click and select "mail recipient" to e-mail out. This will work with
word, excel and power point each time.

I had to adjust to this also since Office 2007 only use Outlook as its
default mail.

I pray this is a blessing to you.
"tim" <tim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Rich have same problem, does anyone know how to fix this
>
> Tim
>
> "Rich" wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone, I've got a problem that I hope someone can help with. I
>> have
>> Windows Vista Home Premium and am using the included Windows Mail. The
>> program so far works great with my Gmail account. I also have Office
>> 2007
>> Home and Student, and this is where my issue is. In Word, OneNote, and
>> Excel
>> 2007, I cannot send emails through the programs. If I have a Word
>> document,
>> hit File (or whatever that symbol is)>Send, the "E-mail" function is
>> grayed
>> out and unavailable. The "Fax Services" button is available, but I don't
>> have a fax client. This is the same in Word, Excel, and OneNote 2007.
>>
>> Now for the strange part: if I do the same thing in Power Point 2007
>> (File>Send>E-mail), the "E-mail" button is fully funcional and I can send
>> Power Point presentations just fine using Windows Mail.
>>
>> What would cause me to not have e-mail functionality in Word, Excel, and
>> One
>> Note 2007 but still have it fully functional in Power Point 2007? I have
>> tried comparing and contrasting the security and Trust settings in the
>> different programs, and they all seem to be the same. I have Windows
>> Mail
>> set as my default mail client with no other email clients installed.
>> Thanks
>> everyone for your help.
>>
>> Rich