The News button in Outlook opens Outlook Express with only the news stub.
If you look at Help-About in the news reader, it always read Outlook
Express. Outlook never had a news reader and still does not in Outlook
2007. And probably never will.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, db asked:

| Milly
|
| But i have accessed my newsgroups in Microsoft Outlook, not
| express...why would by install chg that?
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| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook"
| wrote in message
| ...
|| Outlook has always used Outlook Express to read news. Nothing
|| different here.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, db asked:
||
||| I have been accessing newsgroups thru MS Outlook for 2 yrs..tried to
||| reinstall MS xp last weekend and ever since then, when i select
||| 'news' in outlook, outlook express opens? i cannot figure out how
||| to change this?
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||| Any suggestions would be helpful at this point
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||| Thank You