Loss of focus

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Cris Stout

Whenever I switch to my Inbox or to contacts, the first
item receives the focus (the first contact or email),
then the hour glass appears and then the item looses the
focus, but I'm not sure where to. This means that every
time I switch to another folder, I must wait and then
click on an item with the mouse to do anything in that
folder. Has anyone seen this behavior and have a
solution?

Thank you very much!
 
Maybe UDP packets getting blocked...

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=815052
or
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=304849

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

Whenever I switch to my Inbox or to contacts, the first
item receives the focus (the first contact or email),
then the hour glass appears and then the item looses the
focus, but I'm not sure where to. This means that every
time I switch to another folder, I must wait and then
click on an item with the mouse to do anything in that
folder. Has anyone seen this behavior and have a
solution?

Thank you very much!
 
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure anything is getting
blocked, as mail comes in and all my contacts are there.
It's just when switching, the focus will initially be one
the first item, then the focus goes somewhere else, just
not sure where. I press Enter or Tab or other keys and
nothing happens so I can't tell where the focus is going.
 
If you minimize Outlook, do you have any dialog boxes showing behind the
active screen? Also, do you have Instant Messaging turned on? Try turnning
it off if you do.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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Having searched the archives,
Cris Stout <[email protected]> typed:
| Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure anything is getting
| blocked, as mail comes in and all my contacts are there.
| It's just when switching, the focus will initially be one
| the first item, then the focus goes somewhere else, just
| not sure where. I press Enter or Tab or other keys and
| nothing happens so I can't tell where the focus is going.
|| -----Original Message-----
|| Maybe UDP packets getting blocked...
||
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?id=815052
|| or
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?id=304849
||
|| --
|| Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| || Whenever I switch to my Inbox or to contacts, the first
|| item receives the focus (the first contact or email),
|| then the hour glass appears and then the item looses the
|| focus, but I'm not sure where to. This means that every
|| time I switch to another folder, I must wait and then
|| click on an item with the mouse to do anything in that
|| folder. Has anyone seen this behavior and have a
|| solution?
||
|| Thank you very much!
||
|| .
 
Hi Milly,

1) I am not using Instant Messaging
2) I have tried to minimize Outlook but do not see any
other items or windows with a focus. In fact, when I
select a new folder (inbox/contacts or others), Outlook
itself does not lose the focus, the program does have the
focus, but the item within the folder (the email item or
the contact) has the focus within the folder and then
looses the focus within a second. Once again, Outlook
itself as the running program still has the focus, just
not the item within the folder. I know this is tough,
it's sure baffling me! Thanks for tackling it.
 
Cris

Sorry to jump on your thread but this sounds like the problem that we are experiencing also

The symptoms that we have are that you open Outlook. You then open an email (preview pane is turned off) by double clicking on it from the main Outlook window, and the new window shows up UNDER/BEHIND the main Outlook window (the main Outlook window still has focus). The only way around this is to then minimize the main window. This does NOT happen all the time, and we cannot find any correlation as to when it does happen which makes it even more frustrating

We are running Outlook SP-3 (9.0.0.6627)

Sound similar?

Berry
 
I am having the same problem and it effects my calendar as well a
messages.

Today's date flashes in focus, then it goes away. Th
only way to get it back in focus is to click on it or click on anothe
date, then click on the "today" item on the menu bar. As soo
as I leave the calendar, the whole situation starts again

Outlook 2002 (10.4712) SP-

----- Cris Stout wrote: ----

Hi Milly

1) I am not using Instant Messagin
2) I have tried to minimize Outlook but do not see any
other items or windows with a focus. In fact, when I
select a new folder (inbox/contacts or others), Outlook
itself does not lose the focus, the program does have the
focus, but the item within the folder (the email item or
the contact) has the focus within the folder and then
looses the focus within a second. Once again, Outlook
itself as the running program still has the focus, just
not the item within the folder. I know this is tough,
it's sure baffling me! Thanks for tackling it
-----Original Message----
If you minimize Outlook, do you have any dialog boxes showing behind th
active screen? Also, do you have Instant Messaging turned on? Try turnnin
it off if you do
-- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact
Having searched the archives
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Cris Stout <[email protected]> typed
| Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure anything is gettin
| blocked, as mail comes in and all my contacts are there
| It's just when switching, the focus will initially be on
| the first item, then the focus goes somewhere else, jus
| not sure where. I press Enter or Tab or other keys an
| nothing happens so I can't tell where the focus is going
|| -----Original Message----
|| Maybe UDP packets getting blocked..
|
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?id=81505
|| o
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?id=30484
|
|| -
|| Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook
|
|| || Whenever I switch to my Inbox or to contacts, the firs
|| item receives the focus (the first contact or email)
|| then the hour glass appears and then the item looses th
|| focus, but I'm not sure where to. This means that ever
|| time I switch to another folder, I must wait and the
|| click on an item with the mouse to do anything in tha
|| folder. Has anyone seen this behavior and have
|| solution
|
|| Thank you very much
|
||
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Check this out
http://www.outlookforum.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=134069#post13406

Seems if you run Outlook (mine is 2002) with Outlook Today as your startup folder, it will cause this problem
Pa

----- Cris Stout wrote: ----

Whenever I switch to my Inbox or to contacts, the first
item receives the focus (the first contact or email),
then the hour glass appears and then the item looses the
focus, but I'm not sure where to. This means that every
time I switch to another folder, I must wait and then
click on an item with the mouse to do anything in that
folder. Has anyone seen this behavior and have a
solution

Thank you very much
 
Check this out.
http://www.outlookforum.com/forum/showthread.php?
s=&postid=134069#post134069

Seems if you run Outlook (mine is 2002) with Outlook Today
as your startup folder, it will cause this problem!
Pat
-----Original Message-----
I am having the same problem and it effects my calendar as well as
messages.

Today's date flashes in focus, then it goes away. The
only way to get it back in focus is to click on it or click on another
date, then click on the "today" item on the menu bar. As soon
as I leave the calendar, the whole situation starts again.

Outlook 2002 (10.4712) SP-2

----- Cris Stout wrote: -----

Hi Milly,

1) I am not using Instant Messaging
2) I have tried to minimize Outlook but do not see any
other items or windows with a focus. In fact, when I
select a new folder (inbox/contacts or others), Outlook
itself does not lose the focus, the program does have the
focus, but the item within the folder (the email item or
the contact) has the focus within the folder and then
looses the focus within a second. Once again, Outlook
itself as the running program still has the focus, just
not the item within the folder. I know this is tough,
it's sure baffling me! Thanks for tackling it.
-----Original Message-----
If you minimize Outlook, do you have any dialog
Click to expand...
boxes
showing behind the
active screen? Also, do you have Instant Messaging turned on? Try turnning
it off if you do.
-- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
discussion
intact.
Cris Stout <[email protected]> typed:
| Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure anything is getting
| blocked, as mail comes in and all my contacts are there.
| It's just when switching, the focus will
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initially be
one
| the first item, then the focus goes somewhere
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else,
just
| not sure where. I press Enter or Tab or other keys and
| nothing happens so I can't tell where the focus
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is
going.
|| -----Original Message-----
|| Maybe UDP packets getting blocked...
||
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?id=815052
|| or
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?id=304849
||
|| --
|| Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| "Cris Stout" <[email protected]>
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wrote
in message
|| || Whenever I switch to my Inbox or to contacts,
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the
first
|| item receives the focus (the first contact or email),
|| then the hour glass appears and then the item
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looses
the
|| focus, but I'm not sure where to. This means
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that
every
|| time I switch to another folder, I must wait and then
|| click on an item with the mouse to do anything in that
|| folder. Has anyone seen this behavior and have a
|| solution?
||
|| Thank you very much!
||
|| .
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pwatson said:
Check this out.
http://www.outlookforum.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=134069#post134069

Seems if you run Outlook (mine is 2002) with Outlook Today as your
startup folder, it will cause this problem! Pat
Click to expand...

Well, two things refute that. One is that I use Outlook 2002, have Outlook
Today as my startup display and I DON'T have the problem. The second thing
is a later post in the very thread whose URL you included, and that later
post says:
I spoke too soon. It works but if you open another application or even windows
explorer then close the application the problem reappears. I thought I had
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it!!
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
Well, two things refute that. One is that I use Outlook 2002, have
Outlook
Today as my startup display and I DON'T have the problem. The second
thing
is a later post in the very thread whose URL you included, and that later
post says:
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The problem is real and easily reproducible, although I don't recall the
steps offhand. It's a "known issue" that was discovered soon after Outlook
2002 was released (you can Google for the first reports) and AFAICR, it
wasn't fixed by a service pack. When I brought it to the attention of
Microsoft, we discovered it affected all the folders and happened after
Outlook Today was used.
 
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