Changing the default navigation pane

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Every time Outlook 2003 opens, the navigation pane defaults to the "Mail" tab. Is there a way to change that default? For example, I would rather have it automatically display the contents of the "Shortcuts" pane than the "Mail" pane, when I open the program.
I've only been playing with 2k3 for a couple of hours now, but if there is a place to customize that, I haven't been able to find it yet.
thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Go into the registry to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\WunderBar]
Set the bootmodule to 6. Make sure you have a shortcut to your Inbox in the
list or it won't work

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Every time Outlook 2003 opens, the navigation pane defaults to the "Mail"

tab. Is there a way to change that default? For example, I would rather
have it automatically display the contents of the "Shortcuts" pane than the
"Mail" pane, when I open the program.

I've only been playing with 2k3 for a couple of hours now, but if there is

a place to customize that, I haven't been able to find it yet.

 

[ZiggyXIV]

Thanks.
I found the key in the registry, but it was already set to 6 (and it setup a
shortcut to my Inbox automatically when I installed).
What does this key control exactly?

Go into the registry to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\WunderBar]
Set the bootmodule to 6. Make sure you have a shortcut to your Inbox in the
list or it won't work

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Every time Outlook 2003 opens, the navigation pane defaults to the

"Mail"
tab. Is there a way to change that default? For example, I would rather
have it automatically display the contents of the "Shortcuts" pane than the
"Mail" pane, when I open the program.

I've only been playing with 2k3 for a couple of hours now, but if there

is
a place to customize that, I haven't been able to find it yet.

thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It sets in which Navigation Outlook is started;
0; mail navigation
5: folder list
6: shortcuts

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Thanks.
I found the key in the registry, but it was already set to 6 (and it setup a
shortcut to my Inbox automatically when I installed).
What does this key control exactly?


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Go into the registry to

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\WunderBar]

Set the bootmodule to 6. Make sure you have a shortcut to your Inbox in the
list or it won't work

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"Mail"
tab. Is there a way to change that default? For example, I would rather
have it automatically display the contents of the "Shortcuts" pane than the
"Mail" pane, when I open the program.

there

is
a place to customize that, I haven't been able to find it yet.

 

[ZiggyXIV]

I've found a couple references to this for the beta version, but it doesn't
seem to have any affect on my install of Outlook 11.
5 shows the folder list, but every other value seems to bring up the mail
pane. Has anyone else tried this with a final version?

thanks

It sets in which Navigation Outlook is started;
0; mail navigation
5: folder list
6: shortcuts

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Thanks.
I found the key in the registry, but it was already set to 6 (and it

setup

a
shortcut to my Inbox automatically when I installed).
What does this key control exactly?


message news:%[email protected]...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\WunderBar]

in
the than
the there

 

[Roady [MVP]]

This is the final version 'm talking about. The shortcut pane comes up
perfectly when you have a shortcut to your default inbox (under Outlook
Today)

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I've found a couple references to this for the beta version, but it doesn't
seem to have any affect on my install of Outlook 11.
5 shows the folder list, but every other value seems to bring up the mail
pane. Has anyone else tried this with a final version?

thanks


message news:[email protected]...

It sets in which Navigation Outlook is started;
0; mail navigation
5: folder list
6: shortcuts

--
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\WunderBar]

 

[ZiggyXIV]

Hmm.... weird.
I couldn't get it to work at all yesterday. Today, I deleted the shortcut
to my inbox and then recreated a shortcut to the same (and only) inbox, and
suddenly it works.
Oh well... as long as it's working.

thanks

This is the final version 'm talking about. The shortcut pane comes up
perfectly when you have a shortcut to your default inbox (under Outlook
Today)

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I've found a couple references to this for the beta version, but it doesn't
seem to have any affect on my install of Outlook 11.
5 shows the folder list, but every other value seems to bring up the mail
pane. Has anyone else tried this with a final version?

thanks


message news:[email protected]...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\WunderBar]

Inbox
in from
the

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome! Good to hear it's working for you now to. This could be
because it is a migrated shortcut from the Outlook Bar of a previous version
of Outlook.

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Hmm.... weird.
I couldn't get it to work at all yesterday. Today, I deleted the shortcut
to my inbox and then recreated a shortcut to the same (and only) inbox, and
suddenly it works.
Oh well... as long as it's working.

thanks


message news:[email protected]...

This is the final version 'm talking about. The shortcut pane comes up
perfectly when you have a shortcut to your default inbox (under Outlook
Today)

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\WunderBar]