Switch the email you're composing back to a document (Word 2000/2002/2003/2007)

Word is a great email-editing tool, and it's easy to use as well. You can simply click the E-mail button on the Standard toolbar to convert your document to an email and continue composing. However, if you decide you'd prefer to save your work as a document rather than as an email, how do you convert the email message into a Word document? All you need to do is click the E-mail button again. The email header information goes away, and you're left with the Word document you want.

In Office 2007, you can switch back and forth between an email and a Word document too. But you need to add the Send To Mail Recipient button to your Quick Access Toolbar. To do so, click on the Quick Access Toolbar's down arrow and choose More Commands from the dropdown list. Select All Commands from the Choose Commands From dropdown list. Scroll down until you find Send To Mail Recipient and select it. Click the Add button to move the command to the list box on the right. Click OK and you'll find the Send To Mail Recipient button on your Quick Access Toolbar. When you click the button, your document becomes an email. Click it again to toggle back to a Word document.