Glad my experience was helpful to others. I possess no expertise in
computers or program nuances, but try to logically (or luckily) solve
problems I run across.

This is an example of the reason that EVERYONE should respond with
solutions or results they've stumbled upon, rather than just thinking, "ok, I
solved my problem" and ignore the folks they turned to for help in the first
place.
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Rich B


"jepjr" wrote:

Rich,

You are a life saver. I have been pulling my hair out over this issue. It is
exactly as you described. I even went so far as to uninstall tweakui. Now
I'll put it back and try to find the mouse focus box. Thanks much for
posting.
--
Oldergeek


"Rich B" wrote:

Milly,
I appreciate your response.

Actually, I did run detect & repair with no solution. About 5 minutes ago,
I was poking around my system. I have Tweak UI installed and was looking at
the mouse settings. The box next to "Activation follows mouse" was checked
and I decided to try unchecking it and that solved the problem.

I didn't look at that before, as I considered the date & time drop downs to
be on the same page as the rest of the Contact, however, I guess Outlook does
not. Strange, that that's the only drop downs that were affected.

Anyway, all is right in the world again, and thanks for your effort.
--
Rich B


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Have you tried running detect and repair?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Rich B asked:

| Recently had to reformat my HD, clean installed XP Home SP2 and
| reinstall Office XP SP3 with all updates to everything. Whenever I
| try to create an appointment when the date or time drop down is
| clicked, it disappears when I move the cursor to click on a date or
| time in the list. I can manually enter the information, and this
| does not happen with any other applications.
| Any thoughts?
| Thanks