No documents were referred to. "By design" was my addition to comments from others. Sorry if that misled you.

I use Outlook as my default mail editor. I couldn't see any benefits to wait while Word loads when I want to send an email. FYI, when you install Outlook, it sets Word as the default mail editor.


>Thanks Craig.
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>This "design" does intermittently carry problems with it... for whatever reason Word *sometimes* will not appear when its Taskbar item is clicked. It will do the minimize motion thing but simply will not show. I have to resort to various things to finally get it to appear, only adding frustration with a very sorry product delivery.
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>By the way, it looks like the "by design" conclusion is a **guess**. Did anyone offer a MS document that says so? Like I say, if they consider this "good" design then I disagree. I can't see a single sensible good reason for this.
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>In any case, what is it that you use then as your default mail editor?
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>cheers
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