Microsoft KB Archive/274168

= OL98: A New Word Session Opens When You Use the New Letter to Contact Feature =

Article ID: 274168

Article Last Modified on 10/22/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q274168





SYMPTOMS
In Outlook, when you use the New Letter to Contact feature to create a letter, a new Microsoft Word session is created for each new letter.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
When you create documents in Word, only one instance of Word is started. To view all of the open documents, click the Window menu.

When you use the New letter to Contact feature to create a letter in Outlook, a new instance of Word starts for each letter, all of the open letters are not listed on the Window menu in Word, and there are multiple listings for the Winword.exe file on the Processes tab in the Windows Task Manager dialog box (the Close Program dialog box in Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98).

Additional query words: OL2K

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB274168

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