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Unable to send Word file as an attachment due to MAPI failure "Unspecified error"

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Windows 10, I select send as attachment from Word and get this MAPI failure.

Windows 10, I select send as attachment from Word and get this MAPI failure.

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I had tried a cure of setting winword to run as administrator but that didn't work. After I sent this question I reset winword so as NOT to run as administrator. And after I did that, I no longer got the MAPI failure.

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I had tried a cure of setting winword to run as administrator but that didn't work. After I sent this question I reset winword so as NOT to run as administrator. And after I did that, I no longer got the MAPI failure.