Outlook 2007 uses Word (2007) for its editor; there's no way around it. Luckily Word 2007 is much smarter than it's predecessors when it comes to HTML. I pasted a single 14 character word into a WordPress RTE and Word truly shined. As you can see it only came with the most essential XML.
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<mce:style><!  /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable    {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";    mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;    mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;    mso-style-noshow:yes;    mso-style-priority:99;    mso-style-qformat:yes;    mso-style-parent:"";    mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;    mso-para-margin:0in;    mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;    mso-pagination:widow-orphan;    font-size:11.0pt;    font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";    mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;    mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";    mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;    mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;    mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} –><!–[endif]–>
20105 characters to describe 14 characters of text, a 1436:1 ratio. Smooth, damn smooth.
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January 5th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Oh that's beautiful! You've gotta love what Microsoft have done to make things simple for us web developers… :)