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I've spent some hours trying to find out how to globally disable
Outlook 2000's preview pane in Application_Startup() to no avail. The enraging thing about Windows programming (for me as a VBA newbie, at any rate) is that the simpler your problem is, the more complex or even impossible to solve it seems to be, and the greater number of qualifications you have to state to ward off suggestions that only partially address the problem. To wit, I simply want Outlook 2000 never to display the preview pane in any session, on any folder, both current and to-be-created in the future, at any time, in any postal zone, thru sleet and rain and dark of nite etc. I just don't know how to state that more clearly, yet I can't find a full answer on NewsNet or elsewhere. Some suggest adding the /nopreview switch to the command line in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\Shell\Open\Command but that's no solution. It only works if you launch Outlook from a Desktop icon. Some suggest adding /nopreview to the command line of any shortcut that launches Outlook. That's no solution. I cannot and will not track the location of every icon and modify it--and keep a post-it note on my monitor to remind me to add it every time I might create ANOTHER Outlook icon. Guess what? Windows is about automation, not perpetrating manual activity. Some suggest Application.ActiveExplorer.ShowPane(olPreview, False) in Application_Startup(). But that seems to work only on whatever folder happens to then have focus. So, can Outlook 2000's object implement this behavior? Is there a single method or default view that can globally turn preview off, at least in the current session? Or, do I need to iterate thru all folders? If I have to do that workaround, that's not the worst thing in the world, and I would. Or, if it can be done but only in a later version of Outlook, that's fine too. Thanks much. |
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You can best achieve disabling the preview pane by using Group Policies with
the Office Resource Kit: Microsoft Office Online: Office 2000 Resource Kit Home Page: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011511491033.aspx Microsoft Office Assistance: Managing Users' Configurations by Policy: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...402401033.aspx -- Eric Legault (Outlook MVP, MCDBA, old school WOSA MCSD, B.A.) Try Picture Attachments Wizard for Outlook: http://www.collaborativeinnovations.ca Blog: http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/ " wrote: I've spent some hours trying to find out how to globally disable Outlook 2000's preview pane in Application_Startup() to no avail. The enraging thing about Windows programming (for me as a VBA newbie, at any rate) is that the simpler your problem is, the more complex or even impossible to solve it seems to be, and the greater number of qualifications you have to state to ward off suggestions that only partially address the problem. To wit, I simply want Outlook 2000 never to display the preview pane in any session, on any folder, both current and to-be-created in the future, at any time, in any postal zone, thru sleet and rain and dark of nite etc. I just don't know how to state that more clearly, yet I can't find a full answer on NewsNet or elsewhere. Some suggest adding the /nopreview switch to the command line in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\Shell\Open\Command but that's no solution. It only works if you launch Outlook from a Desktop icon. Some suggest adding /nopreview to the command line of any shortcut that launches Outlook. That's no solution. I cannot and will not track the location of every icon and modify it--and keep a post-it note on my monitor to remind me to add it every time I might create ANOTHER Outlook icon. Guess what? Windows is about automation, not perpetrating manual activity. Some suggest Application.ActiveExplorer.ShowPane(olPreview, False) in Application_Startup(). But that seems to work only on whatever folder happens to then have focus. So, can Outlook 2000's object implement this behavior? Is there a single method or default view that can globally turn preview off, at least in the current session? Or, do I need to iterate thru all folders? If I have to do that workaround, that's not the worst thing in the world, and I would. Or, if it can be done but only in a later version of Outlook, that's fine too. Thanks much. |
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Mr. Legault:
Thanks very much for your suggestion. I'll try it. *** |
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So, how do us non-geeks to it? I just want to pull down a menu and click!
Thanks, Shannon "Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: You can best achieve disabling the preview pane by using Group Policies with the Office Resource Kit: Microsoft Office Online: Office 2000 Resource Kit Home Page: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011511491033.aspx Microsoft Office Assistance: Managing Users' Configurations by Policy: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...402401033.aspx -- Eric Legault (Outlook MVP, MCDBA, old school WOSA MCSD, B.A.) Try Picture Attachments Wizard for Outlook: http://www.collaborativeinnovations.ca Blog: http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/ " wrote: I've spent some hours trying to find out how to globally disable Outlook 2000's preview pane in Application_Startup() to no avail. The enraging thing about Windows programming (for me as a VBA newbie, at any rate) is that the simpler your problem is, the more complex or even impossible to solve it seems to be, and the greater number of qualifications you have to state to ward off suggestions that only partially address the problem. To wit, I simply want Outlook 2000 never to display the preview pane in any session, on any folder, both current and to-be-created in the future, at any time, in any postal zone, thru sleet and rain and dark of nite etc. I just don't know how to state that more clearly, yet I can't find a full answer on NewsNet or elsewhere. Some suggest adding the /nopreview switch to the command line in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\Shell\Open\Command but that's no solution. It only works if you launch Outlook from a Desktop icon. Some suggest adding /nopreview to the command line of any shortcut that launches Outlook. That's no solution. I cannot and will not track the location of every icon and modify it--and keep a post-it note on my monitor to remind me to add it every time I might create ANOTHER Outlook icon. Guess what? Windows is about automation, not perpetrating manual activity. Some suggest Application.ActiveExplorer.ShowPane(olPreview, False) in Application_Startup(). But that seems to work only on whatever folder happens to then have focus. So, can Outlook 2000's object implement this behavior? Is there a single method or default view that can globally turn preview off, at least in the current session? Or, do I need to iterate thru all folders? If I have to do that workaround, that's not the worst thing in the world, and I would. Or, if it can be done but only in a later version of Outlook, that's fine too. Thanks much. |
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