They say that in Britain, when there's heavy fog on the Channel, they say that the continent is cut off.

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I'm using Mozilla 1.7.1 as my email client. It's regularly registered on the system as the email client, even Internet Explorer lists "Mozilla mail" in "Tools/Internet [Explorer?] options/Programs". Practically all of the document-oriented software I have (including the freebie little image editor I got with the old digital camera) has a Send option in the file menu. All of them comply to Windows guidelines and open up a blank message with the currently edited file attached. Even IE launches Mozilla when I select File/Send page.

M$ Office doesn't. In version 2000, it just said that I don't have a properly configured email client. It must have been wrong, or the few thousand email messages that I send or receive each year are just an illusion.

Now with Office 2003, it doesn't even have a Send in the file menu. The help says, in "Troubleshoot sending e-mail from Excel", that "If you don't have an e-mail program (such as Microsoft Outlook) installed on your computer, the E-mail button does not appear on the standard toolbar."

There must have been a tectonic change in English language, because "such as" seems to mean "exactly the" now. Or the continent is cut off? Or is it just a religious push in the "we are right and everybody else is wrong" direction, "thou shalt have no other software installed"... could have been expected after the position of so-called "evangelist" was introduced.

Still, I think resistance is not futile.

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p.s. Michel, why does UT convert "Microsoft Outllook" into a link, but doesn't do so with "Mozilla"? It may merit inclusion into UT's list of autolinks.