Can’t open this item. The text formatting command is not avaliable - Outlook

02-05-10

Can’t open this item. The text formatting command is not available - Outlook. This error was received when trying to open an Outlook item. Also it seems that Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) couldn’t render a page and it would just be blank. After trying to remove profiles and repair office etc I traced the fault to a recent Windows update KB978207 for IE to be exact. After removing the update and rebooted everything worked again!

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One Response to “Can’t open this item. The text formatting command is not avaliable - Outlook”

  1. Raphael April 7th, 2010 at 3:54 am

    Hello,

    I have the same issue, with IE6. When I try to uninstall the patch (under Windows XP update, in add remove programs windows), XP tells me that many other programs / patches will not work after that.
    Did you get this message too ?

    regards,

    Raphael

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