Outlook 2000 Outlook Bar > 2003 Shortcuts

[Guest]

I previously asked the question on how to migrate the Outlook Bar shortcuts
to Office 2003 and have since found the situation on MS Office Assistance
page.

What to first clarify the situation and MS's answer.

Previous installation of Office 2000, I had several (on some users
workstations, several hundred) shortcuts to Public Folders, Sub folders
under their Inbox and IE Favorites each under named groups. With the
migration to Office 2003, these groups have been removed and each of the
favorites have been moved to the approriate catagory (Mail
Favorites,Shortcuts and Public Folder Favorites).

The problem:
Our current user base has been trained and have been using the Outlook Bar
as their default location to get to all of their shortcuts. With the new
process, if I understand this correctly, we would have to re-train the users
to find all their favorites under each of the catagories (Public Folder
Favorites, Mail Favorites).

Our solution: (not a good one mind you)
Recreate each of their shortcuts (Public Folder, Mail, IE, etc etc) under
the Shortcut Pane (PAIN). Management staff does not want to have the cost
and time involved with training the user base, so this is the only solution
that we have been able to come up with.

My Question: In short, is there a way to automate this process, aka migrate
all of their outlook bar shortcuts (groups included) to the Shortcut Pain
under Outlook 2003?

Otherwise, I have a lot of work to do in the coming months as we migrate to
03.

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[Guest]

The easiest thing to do is to dump the Shortcut bar and use the Quick Launch
bar instead. Much less flakey and you can add/delete anything you want.