OL2000: You Cannot Use Office Server Collaboration on Outlook E-mail Messages (258176)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Outlook 2000
This article was previously published under Q258176

SUMMARY

You may want to use Microsoft Office collaboration features to share your Outlook e-mail messages. Office server collaboration is a function that enables collaboration on Office documents through the use of Microsoft Office 2000 Server Extensions. Outlook e-mail messages are not supported by the collaboration features of Office.

MORE INFORMATION

Outlook does not use the collaboration features of Microsoft Office because e-mail messages themselves are collaborative documents that can be sent between users for discussion. If you want to use Outlook to collaborate on a document, you can send the document as an attachment in a new e-mail message.

To send a document as an attachment:
  1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click New Mail Message.
  2. On the Insert menu, click File.
  3. In the Insert File box, browse to the location of your file, click the file, and then click Insert.
You can now send the new e-mail message to the person that you want to collaborate with.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:9/29/2003
Keywords:kbhowto KB258176
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