Send an email FROM word home & office, USING windows live mail

I have the new Windows 7 Home edition, and I'm trying to send email from
Microsoft Word, using windows live mail. When I try to send an email from
word I get the following message:

*logon failed. You must log on to Microsoft Exchange to access your address
book. Error code: "unspecified error".

When I close Microsoft word home and Student 2007, I get the following error
message:

*There is no email program associated to perform the requested action.
Please install an email program or, if one is already installed, create an
association in the Default Programs control panel.
I made Windows Live mail my default email program, and I still get the above
messages.
Please help me send emails from word on Windows Live Mail.

My Windows Live Mail works fine by itself.

The only way I can send a document created on word is by saving it and
sending from my saved files. I would like to be able to send a document
directly from the word program.

I tried the following link, but I don't have outlook, and I'm not sure how
I'm supposed to retreive data from Windows Live Mail. I guess I need to
import Data, but I'm not sure how?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...1621033.aspx#3

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can use the "Send-to" function in Word
with Windows Live Mail as WLM is not fully MAPI compliant. Outlook is, and
Mozilla Thunderbird is.
And didn't you post this in another group to which I gave the same answer?

Yes, I did post this on a differant forum. Do you know if Microsoft plans on
making word compatible with Windows Live Mail?

It is not a question of making Word compliant, it is a question of adding
simple MAPI support to WLM.

Word works just fine.

How do I add MPI support to (WLM) windows live mail?

That is total RUBBISH. You are NOT "forced" to install and use Windows Live
Mail. You can download and install any one of a number of free email
clients. If you want one with full MAPI engine that will work with Home and
Student properly take a look at Mozilla Thunderbird.

CAN you add MAPI support to an email client that doesn't have it?

Yes, you can re-write it.

HOW DO YOU RE-WRITE IT??
Please explain....

Is this site supposed to help people with there computer problems, because
none of my questions have been answered.

If you don't know how to resolve my problem, or re-write the program, please
don't pretend you do.

Yes they have. You can't do Send-to in an Office document using WLM because
it's not fully MAPI compliant.
Where in that statement do you get stuck?

I thought you can re-write word somehow, according to Milly. Apparently you
can't. I'm not stuck, I just thought there was a way to make it MAPI
compliant.

I'm sure many people who come here for answers have no one else to ask.
I know I don't, yet I'd rather skim over page after page after page hoping
to find an answer than post a question. A bunch of you seem to really enjoy
power tripping by treating people looking for help with contempt. Yeah, we
get it. You are all Oh So Very IMPORTANT people who volunteer here. Don't
volunteer if you are going to treat people like crap.
It's a shame so many of you have turned this into a clique.

I've read this entire thread but still would like to know HOW to use send
email in Microsoft Word Home and Student 2007, NOT what you can't do. Running
Windows7 and have the same problem and don't know how to set associations for
email between programs, etc.
Bottom line--HOW DO i GET IT TO WORK?

You cannot get Windows Live Mail to send emails from Office.

Right.
You CANNOT use Windows Live Mail. It WON'T work.

You MUST use an email client that is has the full MAPI engine.
Microsoft Outlook will do this, as will Mozilla Thunderbird.

I'm afraid that is your ONLY option.

Install and use one of the alternate email programs Gordon's mentioned.

So after all that it looks like you have to use Thunderbird, an open source
programme in place of a Microsoft programme that most users of Home and
Student Word 2007 are directed towards i.e. windows live mail. I expect the
2010 version will have a word to mail link. shame about the present.

If you send three times from Word to Live Mail, it works on the third go (as
noted on several other sites). Why is that? It seems pretty obvious that,
this being the case, the fact it is not MAPI compliant cannot be the answer.
Maybe someone who actually knows what they are talking about could enlighten
us. Like Milly, I have no expertise in this area.

[bUCKLEY7111]

When Word 07 first came out, there was no link to Outlook Express. At the same time Excel 07 linked up just fine. After about six months or more MS finally fixed the Word-Outlook link.

Apparently, they are doing it again with Windows Live email. My suggestion is that you wait a few months. My bet is that they will fix it just like they did before. In the meantime do your best to work around it by any simple means that works for you.

I agree with your comments regarding this ******* who really is more trouble than he is worth and, certainly, not helpful. Calm down and just know most of us really want to help because we are basically all in the same boat....

[kattmarl]

I concur with those before me. For now, it just doesn't work right.

MS might have told people it was a MAPI problem, but it seems absolutely false, if, after trying the link 3 times - it actually does work!

Sounds more like lazy programming, or..... in the production phase somebody said.. "Take that out, we want people to buy the FULL version so they can all use our wonderful Outlook Product." So, instead, the programmer (whom we should probably be thanking for leaving us a work-around instead of trying to wring his neck), left that little 3-times-a-charm work-around behind.. so his boss could say it "doesn't work" but it still kinda does.

Decisions like this are what brings Microsoft's integrity and credibility to a screeching halt. I used to use MS products happily. Now I begrudgingly find as many open source solutions as possible so I can rid myself of their antiquated thinking.

As soon as MS "fixes" this... I hope we'll all get the message - by using Open Office Write, via Thunderbird. ;-)

I am not here to bash MS, or anyone's tech knowledge.
However, I WOULD like an answer as to why clicking SEND TO 3 times works
perfectly fine. As stated before, this is supposedly a MAPI problem, however
- if you can simply click it 3 times, the MAPI functions obviously work. Or
they were written so poorly, it's simply a tragedy.

I, like many others, have grown terribly disenchanted with MS for it's lack
of correcting problems they cause and not owning up to issues which others
have to provide "solutions" for.

Can someone at MS PLEASE simply come up with a simple patch to allow Windows
Live Mail (YOUR PROGRAM - which you force every Windows 7 person to
install/use - unless you truly WANT them to run for free/open source content)
work with the SEND TO function within WORD? It DOES work, after clicking 3
times... THIS IS NOT a missing MAPI issue. So let's cut the crap.

Or, should we all be thanking a very forward thinking programmer who likely
was told that such a "feature" was not going to be included in the Home &
Student edition because they want everyone to buy an Office version with
Outlook? Shame on that marketing genius! Whatever programmer had the balls
to leave a magical 3 times clicking work-around should be commended... and
unfortunately, has probably lost his job over leaving in a feature so helpful
to the rest of the world.

I don't want a reply from MS, I'm saddened that so may MS MVPs simply
overlook this and then blow smoke around about it instead of simply going
back to the project design team and saying - "Look guys - we made a BIG
mistake here - let's fix it, quickly, and cover ourselves."

It's this kind of oversight which CAUSES blunders like Windows ME, and
Windows Vista to hit the shelves... and tarnishing the once reputable
Microsoft name.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE write a simple patch for this and help the millions
of people who really WOULD continue to BUY MS products instead of migrating
to a MAC, Google Apps, or any Open Source/Free solution!
PS... maybe they HAVE fixed this by now? If so... PLEASE let me know!

Gordon you are right. Forgive me. Nobody forces Windows Live Mail on us - and thank goodness.

What I was getting at, which I'm sure you know, is that MS provides a KB article on how to get 3rd party solutions like Thunderbird to work with the SEND TO feature - but they don't ever say, claim, or even recognize the fact that they left their own pre-installed provided email client with a gaping hole of utility using the new Word. This frustrates MILLIONS of users, and such omissions and oversights cause considerable harm to both their user base, and anyone trying to learn about computers for the first time.

Thank goodness for techs like you who can point to work-around solutions.

What kills me though, is how simply clicking the SEND TO option 3 times DOES work!!!!! I mean, seriously! You can't tell me it's a MAPI issue - this smacks of a design restriction. Unless MAPI connections have to click their heels 3 times to work? It sounds to me, more like somebody just left the "workaround" available - because somebody actually knew what restricting this feature means.

Can ANYONE explain technically why hitting SEND TO 3 times finally works? And it works for the duration until we close Word. Once we close Word, we have to hit SEND TO 3 times again - and then it works until we close.

If anyone at MS actually reads this - and I hope they do - I help thousands of retirees learn how to use computers. For some, this is the absolute FIRST time they even touch a computer. And, they assume that people with technical knowledge build things that actually work. When you buy a brand new PC computer, you get Windows 7 and Windows Live Mail. Then, the nice sales people talk them into buying MS Office. They get the Home & Student Edition. Now, everyone who uses the "basic" programs, gets used to supporting the supplied programs (Like Outlook Express used to be) and for them, WLM is just like that.
Now, enter MS who limits correct connection to their OWN program. It would have been better if the error message actually said "We're sorry, Word SEND TO features only work with Outlook - so please buy that, or use another company's product because we're too short-sighted to have seen this as an issue." Instead, I have to force them to use another email program - Thunderbird - (which, I do agree, is actually better in many ways than WLM), but they are left disheartened and frustrated.
Some of them have actually used Wordperfect, which - to their credit - has always worked with ANY mail clients. Even their most recent version works Perfectly with WLM without ANY patching at all! So, when users migrate from VISTA using Word Perfect... to Windows 7 (their WordPerfect doesn't work in Windows 7), they buy Word.. and a super frustrating technical issue to overcome from the get-go.
I can't count the number of times people immediately want to switch to a MAC. Not that I care, I support that too. But it pains me to see Microsoft completely ignore a glaring issue with their own software - and a feature people who are NOT tech savvy have grown to know and trust... now, get a mysterious work-around.

[Rumball]

FYI: I am using Office 2007 and have Outlook installed along with Word (2007), but prefer using Windows Live Mail for email, not Outlook. I am running Windows 7 Pro. Anyway, I experience the same issues trying to send email from an open Word document using my default email handler, Windows Live Mail. Can't find a perfect solution, but thanks for pointing out the 3rd try workaround...it works!!! And I can live with it as a temporary solution until Microsoft delivers a real fix.