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Clicking On Email Link In Word 97 strange things are happening

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Posted 13 December 2006 - 12:30 PM

I'm a head hunter. I get resumes - lots of them. Yesterday, I reinstalled Office 97 on WinXP. Ever since then, I can't click on an email link which I used to be able to do. Now I have to copy the address, then go to Outlook Express and drop the email address into the address bar.

Here is what happens - I get a message that I didn't install email client properly, whatever that means. Then about 25 Internet Explorer html windows pop up. It looks like the email address suddenly becomes an Internet address. Of course, they are not and so I get these annoying windows flying up.

What have I done wrong and how can I correct this? :thumbsup:

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Posted 13 December 2006 - 12:54 PM

Did you do all the office updates for Office?
Did you indicate that Outlook Express is your standard email client ?
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 02:09 PM

View Postfozzie, on Dec 13 2006, 12:54 PM, said:

Did you do all the office updates for Office?
Did you indicate that Outlook Express is your standard email client ?


Yes I have. I am sick and tired of IE. In fact I'm sick of all things Microsoft.

I have just switched to Firefox and the problem seems to have disappeared. :thumbsup:

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Posted 13 December 2006 - 07:30 PM

Now the next step is to switch to Thunderbird, and to use OpenOffice!
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John
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 08:26 AM

View Postjgweed, on Dec 13 2006, 07:30 PM, said:

Now the next step is to switch to Thunderbird, and to use OpenOffice!
Cheers,
John


I switched to Thunderbird but what is OpenOffice?

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 08:32 AM

Here you can see it. It is a free replacement for Office products of MS
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