I will say this once and once only.

Closing a program rather than a window IS a behavioral problem in that the
person does not verify what they are closing and then blames the program
when it did exactly what the person told it to do.

Sorry, blaming software for inadvertance or just plain ineptitude is silly.
Asking someone to program in a Nanny option dumbs down the program and
insults users. Sorry - if that ever happens, I will either immediately turn
off the option or uninstall the program.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, JG Miller wrote:

| This is NOT a behavioral "problem", and there's no reason to cop a
| snob attitude about this. It's a natural consequence of having
| multiple individual email messages maximized just like the main
| Outlook window itself. The program is meant to be used in this way,
| since Outlook doesn't open messages in an MDI fashion.
|
| I do the same thing the OP does - accidentally close the main Outlook
| window. Did it twice today. This is in fact my main Outlook UI
| complaint. Many, many other programs have an exit confirmation, for
| good reason.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| "There are seldom technological solutions for behavioral problems."
|| - Internet Guru
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| After furious head scratching, D Major Guy asked:
||
||| Under Tools Options Other General, (maybe under Advanced
||| Options), add the option to present an Exit confirmation dialog box
||| when closing Outlook.
|||
||| Many times, when reading and closing various emails, I get to the
||| basic Outlook window, and I inadvertantly click on the [X] Exit
||| button instead of the [_] Minimize button. If I could opt for an
||| Exit confirmation dialog, I could avoid the frustration of
||| restarting Outlook every time I make that same mistake.
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