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Hi DMCH, I'm an AccountRight User and saw your post.
You don't have to put your data file online if you don't want to. We have multiple data files and only one of them is used online and even with the online file I can send our invoices/payslips via Microsoft Outlook instead of directly from AccountRight.
There's a tab called Emails in Preferences where you can choose to send emails directly from AccountRight by ticking the box "Send Emails Using AccountRight". Leaving the box unticked means emails are sent via Microsoft Outlook instead (as long as you have email addresses recorded in each customer/payee card that is).
For more info here's a link showing what you need to do to send emails via Outlook if it's not clear above.
https://help.myob.com/wiki/display/ar/Sending+emails+using+Microsoft+Outlook
Hope this helps.