I'd like to use OUTLOOK2007, my regular email client, insted of Windows Mail
(VISTA) to search and use newsgroups. The setupsequence is Tools, Customize,
Commands, Go, News . . . easy enough, but there's no "News" selection under
the Go command.

Any ideas . . . ? Thanks!

Stephen

Stephen wrote:
I'd like to use OUTLOOK2007, my regular email client, insted of Windows
Mail (VISTA) to search and use newsgroups. The setupsequence is Tools,
Customize, Commands, Go, News . . . easy enough, but there's no "News"
selection under the Go command.

Any ideas . . . ? Thanks!

Stephen

Yeah, go he http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird It's better (and free)
than Windows Fail or OE back when Outlook used OE for newsgroups.

Alias

Outlook has no newsreader capability, it uses Mail or OE depending on the
o/s

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
I'd like to use OUTLOOK2007, my regular email client, insted of Windows
Mail (VISTA) to search and use newsgroups. The setupsequence is Tools,
Customize, Commands, Go, News . . . easy enough, but there's no "News"
selection under the Go command.

Any ideas . . . ? Thanks!

Stephen

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, click the "Don't ask me again" box and then click the No button.

You may need to reset the menu or toolbar using Tools, customize.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"Stephen" wrote in message
...
I'd like to use OUTLOOK2007, my regular email client, insted of Windows
Mail (VISTA) to search and use newsgroups. The setupsequence is Tools,
Customize, Commands, Go, News . . . easy enough, but there's no "News"
selection under the Go command.

Any ideas . . . ? Thanks!

Stephen

Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote:
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, click the "Don't ask me again" box and then click
the No button.

You may need to reset the menu or toolbar using Tools, customize.


Last I checked, OE doesn't come with Vista and cannot be installed on
Vista either. Perhaps it can use Windows Mail, yes?

Alias, who prefers T-Bird to all of them.

Alias wrote:

Stephen wrote:
I'd like to use OUTLOOK2007, my regular email client, insted of Windows
Mail (VISTA) to search and use newsgroups. The setupsequence is Tools,
Customize, Commands, Go, News . . . easy enough, but there's no "News"
selection under the Go command.

Any ideas . . . ? Thanks!

Stephen

Yeah, go he http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird It's better (and free)
than Windows Fail or OE back when Outlook used OE for newsgroups.

Alias

Yeah, right. Just what you want: a WORSE rules set for newsgroups. For
e-mail, Tbird has a very good rules set. For newsgroups, Tbird sucks
worse than 6-year dead OE.

"back when Outlook used OE for newsgroups". Outlook uses whatever is
configured as the default newsreader handler.

Stephen wrote:

I'd like to use OUTLOOK2007, my regular email client, insted of Windows Mail
(VISTA) to search and use newsgroups. The setupsequence is Tools, Customize,
Commands, Go, News . . . easy enough, but there's no "News" selection under
the Go command.

Outlook never has and probably never will support NNTP (network news
transfer protocol) to do newsgroups. It always starts some other
program depending on which was configured as the default newsreader
(Internet Options - Programs tab). Why would you spend the time
waiting for Outlook to load to only have it load some other program?

Why waste all the extra mouse clicks wandering through menus in Outlook?
Just put a shortcut to whatever newsreader you want to use in the
QuickLaunch toolbar (or another toolbar) in the Windows taskbar. One
click and you start the newsreader directly. No loading Outlook, no
wandering through menus.

You can get Newshound, an Outlook add-on, to add NNTP (network news
transfer protocol) to Outlook but it isn't free.

VanguardLH wrote:
Alias wrote:

Stephen wrote:
I'd like to use OUTLOOK2007, my regular email client, insted of Windows
Mail (VISTA) to search and use newsgroups. The setupsequence is Tools,
Customize, Commands, Go, News . . . easy enough, but there's no "News"
selection under the Go command.

Any ideas . . . ? Thanks!

Stephen
Yeah, go he http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird It's better (and free)
than Windows Fail or OE back when Outlook used OE for newsgroups.

Alias

Yeah, right. Just what you want: a WORSE rules set for newsgroups. For
e-mail, Tbird has a very good rules set. For newsgroups, Tbird sucks
worse than 6-year dead OE.

I take it you don't care for T-Bird? It serves my needs. To each his
or her own. Which newsreader do you recommend?


"back when Outlook used OE for newsgroups". Outlook uses whatever is
configured as the default newsreader handler.

You learn something new every day. The short time I experimented with
Outlook using OE for newsgroups, I had no other newsreader installed. It
was a long time ago.

Alias

Correct. It brings up windows mail (even if live mail is installed and set
as default) - but windows mail is just OE with a different name and storage
system.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"Alias" wrote in message
...
Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote:
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, click the "Don't ask me again" box and then click the
No button.

You may need to reset the menu or toolbar using Tools, customize.


Last I checked, OE doesn't come with Vista and cannot be installed on
Vista either. Perhaps it can use Windows Mail, yes?

Alias, who prefers T-Bird to all of them.

"VanguardLH" wrote in message
...

"back when Outlook used OE for newsgroups". Outlook uses whatever is
configured as the default newsreader handler.

EXCEPT in Vista. It doesn't matter what app you set as default News reader
in Vista, outlook will ALWAYS call Windows mail....