Remove extraneous HTML cruft when using Word as your editor

posted by  varson (7)  12 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

For the last few versions of Outlook, the setting to enable Word as the e-mail editor has been enabled by default. While some people like using Word as an email editor due to the advanced features available, others dislike it because of Word's tendency to generate a lot of HTML markup for even simple HTML mails. If you do want to use Word, you can minimize the amount of markup it adds as follows:

1. Open up Word 2. Tools | Options 3. On the General tab, select Email