Office Word Programming >> Word as an email editor...sort of

by Ted » Fri, 13 May 2005 03:11:12 GMT

in O2K3 outlook somehow uses ms word as an editor to compose emails.
this allows formatting, spell check and all that jazz. i have an .net
application that i need to provide similar functionality. i'm not
composing emails but formatted text that i'm storing in the database as
RTF. any suggestions on this?



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