I would like to open Outlook as I left it prior to using Outlook help,
clicking detect and repair, and checking both boxes to restore shortcuts and
discard customized settings to the default settings.

You can't. A System Restore to a previous date might do the trick but this
will apply to all applications on your computer and not just Outlook or
Office.

Better would be to simply reconfigure Outlook with your accounts again. You
can reconnect to any previous mail database (pst-file) via;
File-> Open-> Outlook Data File...

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"JJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I would like to open Outlook as I left it prior to using Outlook help,
> clicking detect and repair, and checking both boxes to restore shortcuts
> and
> discard customized settings to the default settings.
>