Just a thought, what should be used when working with emails with MS Outlook
? Built-in editor or Office Word? What’s better? What should be preferred by default? Let’s see what’s the difference.
- Word has bigger possibilities in decorating email (HTML mode).. However I don’t use anything other than fonts colorizing and formatting. Internal editor is ok too.
- Word is much slower! I have a pretty powerful laptop, but when you have a large email database, Word is slower in everything - not only when replying, but even when creating a new message
- Internal editor is easier to use
- Word has better management for signatures, but it has bugs and doesn’t always work as supposed.
Enough for getting rid of Word as email editor, but I’m using internal one and more than happy. Can’t even think about why use Word unless you are HTML-only guy who loves fancy emails..
I think you’ll see better results with the standard Outlook email than Word. It’s simply more efficient and compatible. No need to run two processes when you can have just one running.
Plus, there are many Outlook plugins that don’t work if you have word as the default editor.
Thank you, Brad, exactly. Reading your blog, very interesting.
The main reason people like using Word as the editor, is the fact that it underlines spelling mistakes in red. Outlook’s internal editor does not do this.
Thank you, good point. However you can auto-spellcheck before sending or do it manually (F7). And you can use AutoSpell program that do this underlining (using office dictionaries) in all programs, not only email.