I often leave Outlook open for days at a time, and end up with 50+ emails open, all minimized. You can right-click on the task bar, and select to "Close Group" which starts closing the app. BUT, if any of the emails have an attachment open, it pops up a "Do you want to save changes" dialog box (Yes/No/Cancel). Regardless of which option is chosen, the result is that the "Close Group" operation is halted, and I need to re-start it. Today I had to re-start the "Close Group" command six times.

Is anyone aware of an option, either within Outlook 2007, or XP Pro, to tell it to REALLY close out of it, and either don't pop-up the dialog box(es), or to continue on with the close operation? It's really annoying - especially if they're .pdf file attachments, which you can't change them anyway.....
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Crashing outlook by ending the task in task manager works <g> It's not
recommended because recovery can take a lot longer than answering the
dialogs.

I don't know of any other method offhand but its not something that bothered
me enough to find a better way. While I often have a lot of messages open,
the attachments are usually disconnected because I open them from the
preview pane. I just have to answer the save question for mail.


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"Steve" <spaulin[at]cisco[dot]com> wrote in message
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> I often leave Outlook open for days at a time, and end up with 50+ emails
> open, all minimized. You can right-click on the task bar, and select to
> "Close Group" which starts closing the app. BUT, if any of the emails
> have an attachment open, it pops up a "Do you want to save changes" dialog
> box (Yes/No/Cancel). Regardless of which option is chosen, the result is
> that the "Close Group" operation is halted, and I need to re-start it.
> Today I had to re-start the "Close Group" command six times.
>
> Is anyone aware of an option, either within Outlook 2007, or XP Pro, to
> tell it to REALLY close out of it, and either don't pop-up the dialog
> box(es), or to continue on with the close operation? It's really
> annoying - especially if they're .pdf file attachments, which you can't
> change them anyway..... Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com