I believe that you will need Word 2003 to be able to use Word as the editor
in email (not that I know why anyone would want to.
You can however still create an email message in Outlook and attach a word
document (or any file for that matter) to the email to deal with the second
issue.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> I had word and outlook 2000, and was able to use word as
> my email editor in outlook 2000 and also send word
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> Any ideas?
> Thanks