Outlook View Filter

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Bryan Dickerson

I have a public tasks folder that has several views defined on it and I am
aware that you can tell Outlook, sometimes inadvertently, to make your own
customized view of the folder with the same name as one on the Exchange
server. Can anyone (Sue?) tell me how to delete those personalized custom
views? If I remember right, they are in a folder under "Documents and
Settings\<username>" but I don't remember where.

Thanx!
 
No, they're hidden items in your mailbox, a bit hard to find, but accessible
with Outlook Spy, MFCMAPI, Mdbvu32, etc. You can also try bringing up the
Define Views dialog and resetting the view you're interested in.
 
Got another question or two now. I am trying to help a user here who is
using OL 2003. He clicks on the "Tasks" 'button' and it shows him his
personal tasks as well as the tasks in the public folders. He likes to keep
this public folder open in a separate window, so he right-clicks on the
public folder and selects "open in new window" from the context menu. The
trouble starts there as the view filters that we have defined on this folder
don't seem to work then. I walked him thru going down thru the Outlook
folder tree to it's location and then right-clicking on the folder there and
selecting "open in new window". At that point, the view filters seem to
work correctly. So my question, then is what is different about the 2
different ways to open the folder?? I remember hearing that OL 2003 had a
problem with "Favorites", but I thought that was fixed with SP1.
 
From the task pane, he can only open the copy in Public Folders\Favorites,
while from the folder list, he can open either one. He might have created a
different custom view for the Favorites copy.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Is the copy of the custom view for the Favorites folder deletable only thru
MDBVU32 or some such?
 
That's one way to do it. If the view in question is a built-in view, the
user can try resetting it on the Define Views dialog. The scorched earth
approach would be to start Outlook with the /cleanviews switch.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
"Scorched earth approach" --> ROTFLOL!

Sue Mosher said:
That's one way to do it. If the view in question is a built-in view, the
user can try resetting it on the Define Views dialog. The scorched earth
approach would be to start Outlook with the /cleanviews switch.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
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