Recent content by castman

I have MS Office 2007 installed and also using Windows Live Mail. When I click on the send mail icon in Word or go thru the send option in the menu, the email option is greyed out making it impossible to email a Word document in this way. Any ideas on how I can successfully pair the two...

Hi Yes that's exactly what I ended up doing. Why Microsoft decided to make the new mail program that comes with 8 so in-user friendly I just don't know

Nope!

Judging by the lack of response I guess no one else had been able to do this except via the idiotic Microsoft cloud approach. I've therefore solve the problem by ditching this mail program and downloading Windows Live Mail - which lets you do all those essential things you want a program to let...

Hi Clint, Yeah you are showing me screen shots from Windows LIVE Mail, which is not what comes as standard with Windows 8. Thanks for doing that because I've decided to dump the Windows * Mail program in favour of Windows Live Mail (like you have). I've just finished setting it up and it works...

Hi it is the Windows 8 standard mail program that comes with 8. The email is in my inbox and won't move, right clicking only gives me the option to pin it or synch it! I can't drag it either it just sits there laughing at me...... Like some demon email sent to torture me (OK I added a little...

My mail account is working perfectly OK except this morning I received an email - junk mail! (but just plain text) that I now can't get rid of. I highlighted the email, clicked on the delete icon on the top right and in greyed briefly but remains in my inbox. Unfortunately Microsoft have seen...

I got instructions off Microsofts site on how to transfer my contacts list but it involved "the cloud" which I can't be bothered with, I want things on MY computer thank you! And I don't want an outlook.com account. So using Windows explorer I went to the Windows Mail folder and double clicked...