outlook window stays on top

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I have recently installed Outlook 2003. When I receive an email containing a
URL, I click the URL and the web browser opens the page, but Outlook
stubbornly remains maximized, obscuring the browser. How can I persuade
Outlook to minimize automatically when I call up a URL from an email? I'm
sure Outlook 2000 did this, so why not 2003?
 
Outlook shouldn't minimize - but the browser should come up on top of
Outlook, unless you keep working in outlook so that it retains focus.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Thanks for replying. I've just tried three different URLs from the same email
in my Inbox, with results as follows:
(1) The first page loaded into the browser and the browser was on top, as
you say it should be, and I then closed the browser window and returned to
Outlook. This is a great success, because it has NEVER happened before.
(2) When I tried the second URL, I was back with the same old problem again
-- the page loaded in the browser, but the browser was underneath Outlook so
I had to click in the taskbar to bring it to the top -- that is, I had to
click not once but twice. I paused for a long time at each stage to give it
every chance to work, but it didn't.
(3) I closed the browser again before trying the third URL, with the same
result as in (2) above.
I suppose it doesn't really matter, but it's very, very irritating!


Diane Poremsky said:
Outlook shouldn't minimize - but the browser should come up on top of
Outlook, unless you keep working in outlook so that it retains focus.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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mailto:[email protected]


Jane Eyre said:
I have recently installed Outlook 2003. When I receive an email containing
a
URL, I click the URL and the web browser opens the page, but Outlook
stubbornly remains maximized, obscuring the browser. How can I persuade
Outlook to minimize automatically when I call up a URL from an email? I'm
sure Outlook 2000 did this, so why not 2003?
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