Microsoft KB Archive/321198

= OL2002: HTML Elements Appear As Attachments If Word Is Your E-mail Editor =

Article ID: 321198

Article Last Modified on 7/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q321198



SYMPTOMS
When you forward a message in Outlook 2002, images in the body of the message may be added in the Attachment box of the message header.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if all of the following conditions are true:  Microsoft Word is your e-mail editor. You are forwarding a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) message. The HTML message contains a link to an image that is stored on a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. For example, your HTML source might contain the following tag:







RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

307841 OFFXP: How to Obtain the Latest Office XP Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date         Time      Size       File name ---  25-Apr-2002  17:00:38  2,159,184  Outlook.msp 25-Apr-2002 18:24:00  4,016,640  Outlook_Admin.msp After the fix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:   Date        Time      Version       Size       File name ---  29-Apr-2002 14:47:07  10.0.4024.0     140,776  Envelope.dll 23-Jan-2002 03:32:22 10.0.3716.0     342,344  Exsec32.dll 11-Apr-2002 17:40:26 10.0.4009.0     534,856  Outlcm.dll 29-Apr-2002 14:48:00 10.0.4024.0   6,306,120  Outllib.dll 20-Dec-2001 21:44:00 10.0.3618.0      92,488  Outlmime.dll 05-Feb-2002 18:14:45 10.0.3729.0     117,064  Outlph.dll 29-Nov-2001 04:21:29 10.0.3527.0      47,432  Recall.dll

Administrative Information
If you are updating an administrative installation with the administration version of this fix, use the following information to update the administrative installation and network clients.

How to Update Administrative Installations
To update an administrative installation use a command line similar to the following

msiexec /a \  /p   SHORTFILENAMES=1

where  is the path to your administrative installation point for Microsoft Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP),

where  is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi), and

where  is the path to the administrative update for the fix (for example, c:\hotfixfiles\Outlook_admin.msp).

How to Update Network Clients
After you complete the administrative installation of the fix, update each network client. To deploy the update to the client workstations, use a command line similar to the following

msiexec /i \  REINSTALL=OUTLOOKFiles,OUTLOOKNonBootFiles REINSTALLMODE=vomus

where  is the path to your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), and

where  is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi).



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, turn off (disable) Word as the default e-mail editor. To do this:
 * 1) On the Tools menu, click Options.
 * 2) On the Mail Format tab, click to clear the Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages check box.
 * 3) Click OK.

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP-2).

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