Use the Mail applet in Control Panel to remove the Exchange account from your mail profile, since you apparently don't need it.

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"blettj" wrote in message ...
When I open Outlook, I am prompted for a Microsoft Exchange Server, but I do
not use one to access the Internet. When I cancel out of the dialogue box, I
have a notification that Outlook is not an offline application and then it
closes out. Any ideas on how I can bypass this step and use Outlook?