context sensitivity for outlook standard toolbar

[Guest]

I'm running Outlook 2003 in Windows XP and, until now, thought I was an
experienced Outlook user but I'm stumped.

It appears that the Standard Toolbar contains a pretty complete set of
buttons, but shows only selected subsets based on the current context. I
customized the standard toolbar while in the Inbox only to find that I'd
screwed up how the standard toolbar is displayed in the Calendar. Further
experimentation leads me to believe that there is some whopping big matrix
behind the scenes that selectively hides or exposes the standard toolbar
buttons based on a fine-grained sense of where I am in Outlook.

Does anyone out there know if this is true and how I can discover what this
algorithm is? For now I've given up trying to tune the toolbar because I
keep messing it up in other views.

Thanks!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Your conclusions are correct: Outlook menus do have some context-sensitivity, showing different commands in differerent folder. The algorithm is undocumented.