Mail button points wrong

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Sachssci

In Outlook 2003, my Mail button selects the basic pst
file; it does not point to my Inbox. All the other
buttons, such as "Calendar," point to the right folders
(e.g., Calendar points to Calendar). How can I get my
Mail button to point to (open) my Inbox?

Thanks!
 
The Mail button just shows a list of all your mail folders. It won't bring
you right to the Inbox unless you had the Inbox selected before you clicked
somewhere else. The other buttons work the same way, but if you rarely
click any other Calendar folder than your default (or Tasks, or Notes, or
whatever it may be), you may not have noticed this behavior.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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Is there any way to change this? The 2002 version opened the Inbox and was
VERY handy.
Howard
 
Outlook 2002 didn't have a Navigation Pane like Outlook 2003 does; it only
had the Folder List and the Outlook Bar. In Outlook 2003 you can either
show the entire Folder List or you can click the Shortcuts button and add
shortcuts to your favorite folders there. There's no way to alter the
behavior of the Mail button itself.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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That was a GOOD suggestion. Thank you. I created a new shortcut called
'Outlook' and put in it shortcuts to all the same folders I was used to
using in Outlook 2002 and minimized the larger short cut buttons. Now
Outlook 2003 has a reasonable resemblance to the layout for 2002 and allows
me to freely and easily navigate to both the Inbox and the Outlook Today
page. I wish MS had put in an option to allow 2003 uses to keep the same
interface as 2002 much in the same way the MS Word allows users to keep
WordPerfect or other earlier interfaces and XP allows users to keep standard
Windows front ends. Just a suggestion. Thanks again for the help.
Howard
 
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