And neither method will prevent users from turning it back on. For that, you must get Outlook 2007.

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"Brian Tillman" wrote in message ...
Jack-PEC wrote:

Can someone tell me a registry hack or GP setting that I can use to
turn the Reading Pane off when Outlook loads?

In addition to Neo's suggestion, you can also start Outlook with the
/nopreview command line switch.
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