Use rules to keep a new message notification on top. Personally, I found
the feature REALLY annoying and turn it off first thing.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
| Robin, thanks for your reply.
|
| Wow, that really sucks. How can MS take away a feature??? Would it
| have been too hard to keep it there, along with the "new" feature, so
| i'm not forced to change if i don't want? The max it lets me keep the
| "new" feature is 30 seconds, and if i'm away from my desk, when i
| come back it is long gone, whereas the "old" feature worked for me
| perfectly. Give me a choice here, that's all i'm asking.
|
| If anyone who is reading this has any say in what goes into outlook,
| for the next version please either put back in the message box, or let
| me make the "new" feature stay up indefinately until i click the "x"
| to close it, instead of a max of 30 seconds. I would rather the
| message box because I could dismiss it just by pressing "N" for No,
| without having to use the mouse.
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| robin wrote:
|| Chaim,
||
|| In Outlook 2003 the "Display a New Mail Desktop Alert" is the newer
|| feature that done away with the one that you are used to. If you
|| want the "Alert" to stay longer you should increase the amount of
|| time it shows up and stays. Also you even can change it from the
|| transparent to the more noticeable shade. Hope this helps.
||
||
|| "Chaim Mintz" wrote:
||
||| I don't see that choice in Outlook 2003 - what version are you
||| using? (i prev said is was using office XP, but I am using office
||| 2003, not XP - MS can definately be a little less confusing when
||| naming their versions) is it available in outlook 2003, or just
||| older versions? The only choice I see is the "Display a New Mail
||| Desktop Alert", which has that system tray notification box that
||| disappears after a few seconds.
|||
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| |||| Click Tools, then Options. On the Preferences tab, select the
|||| E-mail Options button. From the resulting dialog, choose the
|||| Display a notification message when new mail arrives check box.
||||
|||| You're done.
||||
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|||| ||||| I am using Outlook XP, and when new mail comes in, it pops up that
||||| little box on the bottom right of my screen. I would prefer that
||||| it pops up a message box and asks if I want to read the message,
||||| like it did in the previous version of outlook. Is there any way
||||| for me to have Outlook XP do that, or did microsoft remove that
||||| feature?
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||||| The reason I like it better is that I step away from my desk a
||||| lot, and I am used to seeing the message box on my screen to
||||| indicate that I have new mail. in XP, that box goes away, and
||||| when I come back, I don't wind up realizing i have new mail until
||||| a few hours later. There is that icon on the bottom right, but I
||||| really don't want to have to look at that, I like the older
||||| version message box - it forces me to press yes or no to go away.
