Hi everyone. Currently, Outlook immediately deletes contacts, when I
click on the deletion icon or press the "delete" key on my keyboard.

*** Question: Is there a way to make Outlook request a pop-up
confirmation (yes/no/cancel) as a safety measure ? The current
behaviour really is unsafe. ***


(PS: Please don't suggest "verifying the deleted items" as solution,
because it isn't one. Retrieving contacts from the deleted items
helps, when you were *aware* of your deletion. But when you delete a
contact item accidentally (and thus are *unaware* of the deletion),
you are equally unaware of the fact that you would have to retrieve
anything from the deleted items. And I can't check my deleted items on
a regular basis either, because that would be too time-consuming.
Please don't consider this as rude, but PLEASE, PLEASE don't talk
about the "deleted items" folder in your response, because this
strategy would not help me at all).

Many thanks in advance for your help.

PS: Outlook 2007

You would need to use VBA - or just avoid the Del key.


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"boardrider" wrote in message
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Hi everyone. Currently, Outlook immediately deletes contacts, when I
click on the deletion icon or press the "delete" key on my keyboard.

*** Question: Is there a way to make Outlook request a pop-up
confirmation (yes/no/cancel) as a safety measure ? The current
behaviour really is unsafe. ***


(PS: Please don't suggest "verifying the deleted items" as solution,
because it isn't one. Retrieving contacts from the deleted items
helps, when you were *aware* of your deletion. But when you delete a
contact item accidentally (and thus are *unaware* of the deletion),
you are equally unaware of the fact that you would have to retrieve
anything from the deleted items. And I can't check my deleted items on
a regular basis either, because that would be too time-consuming.
Please don't consider this as rude, but PLEASE, PLEASE don't talk
about the "deleted items" folder in your response, because this
strategy would not help me at all).

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Thank you for your reply.

You can't avoid doing something UNAWARE or ACCIDENTAL. (When you try
to avoid it, you are - by definition - aware of it).

Can you be more specific about VBA ?
And is there no "deletion confirmation" checkbox anywhere in the
Outlook options or any other way to configure Outlook to not silently
delete contacts ?

the only confirm delete is when emptying the deleted items folder. See
outlookcode.com or the program_vba group on this server for help with VBA.


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"boarders paradise" wrote in message
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Thank you for your reply.

You can't avoid doing something UNAWARE or ACCIDENTAL. (When you try
to avoid it, you are - by definition - aware of it).

Can you be more specific about VBA ?
And is there no "deletion confirmation" checkbox anywhere in the
Outlook options or any other way to configure Outlook to not silently
delete contacts ?

"boardrider" wrote in message
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*** Question: Is there a way to make Outlook request a pop-up
confirmation (yes/no/cancel) as a safety measure ? The current
behaviour really is unsafe. ***

Why is it unsafe? The item does not disappear immediately, but gets moved to
Deleted Items. When you realize you've deleted something by accident, just
open Deleted Items and drag it back to the original folder.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"When you realize you've deleted something" ...
Brian, I am talking about the case, where you *don't* realize it.
Please read the OP, thank you. I specifically asked that "deleted
items" be off-topic here.

On Sep 9, 2:33*pm, "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote:
"boardrider" wrote in message

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*** Question: Is there a way to make Outlook request a pop-up
confirmation (yes/no/cancel) as a safety measure ? The current
behaviour really is unsafe. ***

Why is it unsafe? *The item does not disappear immediately, but gets moved to
Deleted Items. *When you realize you've deleted something by accident, just
open Deleted Items and drag it back to the original folder.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Sad, that there is no way to change this unsafe behaviour of Outlook.
But thank you for support, Diane.
Would it be quick for you to specifically explain (posting code maybe)
how to add a deletion confirmation, using VBA ?
Or would this be a lot of work ? (I have no clue about that ...)

On Sep 9, 4:30*am, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
the onlyconfirmdelete is when emptying the deleted items folder. *See
outlookcode.com or the program_vba group on this server for help with VBA..

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"boarders paradise" wrote in message

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Thank you for your reply.

You can't avoid doing something UNAWARE or ACCIDENTAL. (When you try
to avoid it, you are - by definition - aware of it).

Can you be more specific about VBA ?
And is there no "deletionconfirmation" checkbox anywhere in the
Outlook options or any other way to configure Outlook to not silently
delete contacts ?

"boarders paradise" wrote in message
...

"When you realize you've deleted something" ...
Brian, I am talking about the case, where you *don't* realize it.
Please read the OP, thank you. I specifically asked that "deleted
items" be off-topic here.

Keeping "Deleted Items" off-topic when you're speaking of deleted items is
pretty hard to do. The item you delete gets put into Deleted Items and will
remain there until you DO realize you've deleted it, which is a premise to
your entire scenario. It is an immanently appropriate topic.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I think this is particularly ridiculous from Microsoft that there's no
option to turn on "delete confirmation" for every time an item is
deleted (one would have though this would be a DEFAULT!).

Our company has Microsoft Exhange set up with low limits on each
indiviudual's mailbox size. This means I have to "permanently erase
my deleted items" folder at least once a day.

In other words, "simply getting the message out of the deleted items
folder is not available to me when I realise something is missing.
All it takes is for you to accidentally hit the delete key (or even
have something fall on it) and it would be gone for good (if I didn't
realise in a couple of hours).

This has happened to me on a few occasions over the past three years,
and is very annoying!


Rob