Closing Outlook By Accident

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Just a minor siggestion, but as a corporate user there is nothing, and I mean
nothing more annoying than accidentially closing Outlook and having it shut
down. It is actually fairly easy to do if you have a laptop and a touch
screen.

Why you ask? Well, most of us fire up outlook first thing in the morning
and so it is perpetually on the left side of the task bar. Now when you
accidentially close it, it ends up somewhere on the deep right side of the
bar (assuming you are actually working). It can literally drive you nuts the
rest of the day or you can close everything else to get it back to it's
proper position on the taskbar. Also, all of the emails you have open and
such closes as well.

So my humble suggestion would be that we get one of those "are you sure you
want to close this" buttons to confirm your exit vs. "Do you want to empty
your deleted items" button. Once that shows up you are done for and there is
no stopping it from closing at that point.

I know the real error is an ID10T error, but this may help us save ourselves
from us!!

Thank you for your time

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Not sure this would fit the bill, but you can right click on the icon in the
lower right "notification area" and hide OL when minimized. Then you restore
by clicking on the icon. Less chance of accidentally closing it. Also you
should have a Quick Launch icon for OL to make it very easy to reopen.
 
Idiot that I am, I am always closing the 'window' by the 'X' by mistake.
Many progs have a safety 'are you sure' and quite a few more give you the
option requiting 'file, exit' to close the prog. Closing Outlook causes me
to lose syncs and updates for other progs. You would think I would learn. I
haven't.
 
For corporate users there's an addin that reliably prevents you from closing
Outlook accidentally. Please see OLKeeper here:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?lang=en

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Am Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:37:02 -0800 schrieb Dennys:
Idiot that I am, I am always closing the 'window' by the 'X' by mistake.
Many progs have a safety 'are you sure' and quite a few more give you the
option requiting 'file, exit' to close the prog. Closing Outlook causes me
to lose syncs and updates for other progs. You would think I would learn. I
haven't.
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