It's the most common bug in Outlook 2003: the News button stops functioning
if users configure their news reader settings incorrectly.
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Russ Valentine
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"Vanguard" wrote in message
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"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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This is the most common question in this group and the solution is
simple.
To get the News command back, go back to the Programs tab in Control
Panel |
Internet Options and change the default newsreader to Outlook Express. If
OE prompts you to make it your default newsreader the next time you
launch
it, clear the "Always perform this check..." box and then click the No
button.


But the OP said that they *were* selecting news somehow (but not mentioned
how). So I did not assume the News menu item was gone. Somehow the OP was
trying to get to newsgroups from Outlook. He didn't report the inability
to find a news function in Outlook. He said that some "directory" had
opened (maybe in Outlook as a folder, maybe in Explorer). If the OP had
no News item in Outlook, that would've been reported. Instead the News
item *was* there for the OP to try but the results were not as expected.

If the News object in Outlook is corrupted (i.e., perhaps pointing to the
wrong file or place), is opening a directory to "1030", whatever that
means to the OP, the usual result? My guess was that whatever function
was defined for the News menu item was within some file under one of the
1033 (not 1030) folders under the C:\Program Files (for Office or maybe
under Common Files) that specifies what action or program to run when that
News object was called in Outlook but that Outlook couldn't find the file
and maybe was opening Explorer to some path.

It seems, to me, that the OP actually did have a News item to use (i.e.,
it was there) but that its effect was screwed up (i.e., opening a folder
in Explorer rather than loading OE). "i try to open news in Outlook"
doesn't look like the News item is missing but then it is too vague since
it never really mentions HOW the user is trying to get to newsgroups from
within Outlook. "it [Outlook presumably] simply
opens a directory called 1030" but Outlook doesn't open directories so
"it" is something else, like Explorer showing a path to some directory.

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