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MS Office Forum / Outlook / General MS Outlook Questions / May 2008When advance editing a signature it opens Notepad & I want Word
I went to Control panel and Word is chosen as my editor. In Outlook I have Word checked. When I click on advanced edit - opens notepad. Help Please The Advanced Editor for signatures has nothing to do with your email editor. It opens your signature in your default HTML editor. You can change your default HTML editor in Control Panel-> Internet Options-> tab Programs  SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- > I went to Control panel and Word is chosen as my editor. In Outlook I have > Word checked. > > When I click on advanced edit - opens notepad. > > Help Please > The Advanced Editor for signatures has nothing to do with your email > editor. It opens your signature in your default HTML editor. > You can change your default HTML editor in Control Panel-> Internet > Options-> tab Programs I'm going to jump in on this. I have Word specified there and Notepad still opens. Now, I don't mind that because I want to use Notepad for any HTML I write, but I've wondered about it for some time. SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] Yes, there is a corruption somewhere and a duplicate registry key. I came across this once a couple of years ago in an Outlook 2003/Windows XP configuration. You can use this key to overrule the system's default HTML editor for a single user or set it to an editor that doesn't register itself as an HTML editor. I'm not sure if I documented this key somewhere but I'll look into it. SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- >> The Advanced Editor for signatures has nothing to do with your email >> editor. It opens your signature in your default HTML editor. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > still opens. Now, I don't mind that because I want to use Notepad for any > HTML I write, but I've wondered about it for some time. Ok, found it. Check the editor specified in this registry key; HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared\HTML\Default Editor\shell\edit\command I bet you have Notepad specified there and not Word. Simply delete the entire "Default Editor" hive or if that is the only option specified, you can delete the entire "Share" hive. SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- > Yes, there is a corruption somewhere and a duplicate registry key. I came > across this once a couple of years ago in an Outlook 2003/Windows XP [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> still opens. Now, I don't mind that because I want to use Notepad for >> any HTML I write, but I've wondered about it for some time. > I bet you have Notepad specified there and not Word. > Simply delete the entire "Default Editor" hive or if that is the only > option specified, you can delete the entire "Share" hive. This is the value defined in that key: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] Just to be clear; Notepad only opens when editing your signature via Advanced Editor and Word opens when editing an htm-file? Does the key I gave you also exist in; -HKLM -HK_U\.DEFAULT -in the policy regkeys? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML Editor] and [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML Editor] Are these both set to winword.exe? It's fun digging in the registry ;-) SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- >> I bet you have Notepad specified there and not Word. >> Simply delete the entire "Default Editor" hive or if that is the only [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde > Just to be clear; > Notepad only opens when editing your signature via Advanced Editor > and Word opens when editing an htm-file? Correct. > Does the key I gave you also exist in; > -HKLM > -HK_U\.DEFAULT > -in the policy regkeys? The HKLM equivalent contains "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.0.3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%1" However, HLKM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared\HTML\Old Default Editor\shell\Edit\command does contain a reference to Notepad, do perhaps that's what's cauing it. > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML > Editor] "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.0.3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%1" > and > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML > Editor] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] Interesting. Never came across the "Old Default Editor" key. I assume OpenOffice is still installed? The keys are quite conflicting with each other. You can spent quite some time trying to find out in which order IE and Outlook look at those keys and which one ultimately wins (the first or last one it looks at). From the look of things; they both have a different algorithm. There must be other keys in play as well because even when I delete all the keys I've found so far, it still opens up an editor without spitting an error to me. In my case it ultimately opens up Word while I would expect it to fall back to Notepad IF it had a fallback option already. Time to fire up RegMon some time I think ;-) SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- >> Just to be clear; >> Notepad only opens when editing your signature via Advanced Editor [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde > Interesting. Never came across the "Old Default Editor" key. I assume > OpenOffice is still installed? Yes. > The keys are quite conflicting with each other. You can spent quite > some time trying to find out in which order IE and Outlook look at [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Word while I would expect it to fall back to Notepad IF it had a > fallback option already. Time to fire up RegMon some time I think ;-) Just might do that the next time I'm looking for some entertainment. SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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