Outlook 2003 as default newsreader problem

[nsnews.microsoft.com]

Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of Outlook then
option is lost from Go menu and also option to customize Go menu does not
have News as an option (if I start Outlook Express and make it the defaut
newsreader, the option returns in both places).
Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader. Instruction from
help file below:
The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News command to the
Go menu.

1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
How?

1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options
that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on
the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar Options
arrow .
2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
3.. Click the Commands tab.
4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without releasing the
mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the menu displays a list of
commands, point to where you want the command to appear, and then release
the mouse.
2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the New options
was no longer in Go menu.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your newsreader.
It only launched a news only version of Outlook Express, which you can still
easily do:
You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only mode.
In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
"drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option

 

[nsnews.microsoft.com]

Russ,
Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the reader.
There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks good enough for me
finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and Outlook Express, which I have
avoided for years.
To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus Organizer 5.0 and
them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys, that worked the best.
Do you know where I can see a list possible "bugs" in Outlook 2003?

It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your newsreader.
It only launched a news only version of Outlook Express, which you can still
easily do:
You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only mode.
In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
"drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of Outlook then
option is lost from Go menu and also option to customize Go menu does not
have News as an option (if I start Outlook Express and make it the defaut
newsreader, the option returns in both places).
Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader. Instruction from
help file below:
The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News command to the
Go menu.

1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
How?

1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options
that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click

Customize

on
the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar Options
arrow .
2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
3.. Click the Commands tab.
4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without releasing the
mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the menu displays a list of
commands, point to where you want the command to appear, and then release
the mouse.
2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the New options
was no longer in Go menu.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first potential bug
that I've seen, but many of these may just be users' not realizing that OE
has always been the news reader for Outlook. I'm sure some will turn up, but
OL2003 is far and away the most solid release of Outlook I've seen yet.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Russ,
Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the reader.
There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks good enough for me
finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and Outlook Express, which I have
avoided for years.
To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus Organizer 5.0 and
them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys, that worked the best.
Do you know where I can see a list possible "bugs" in Outlook 2003?

It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your newsreader.
It only launched a news only version of Outlook Express, which you can still
easily do:
You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only mode.
In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
"drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of Outlook then
option is lost from Go menu and also option to customize Go menu does not
have News as an option (if I start Outlook Express and make it the defaut
newsreader, the option returns in both places).
Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader. Instruction from
help file below:
The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News command

to
the

Go menu.

1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
How?

1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options
that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click

Customize

on
the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar Options
arrow .
2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
3.. Click the Commands tab.
4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without

releasing
the

mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the menu displays a list of
commands, point to where you want the command to appear, and then release
the mouse.
2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the New options
was no longer in Go menu.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

There is no list available - all bugs reported during the beta are
maintained by Microsoft and not available to the public.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted w/out
reading.



After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
nsnews.microsoft.com <[email protected]> asked:

| Russ,
| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks good
| enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and Outlook
| Express, which I have avoided for years.
| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus Organizer
| 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys, that worked
| the best.
| Do you know where I can see a list possible "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|
|
|
| || It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
|| workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your
|| newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook Express,
|| which you can still easily do:
|| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
|| on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only mode.
|| In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
|| "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option
||
||
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||| returns in both places).
||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||| Instruction from help file below:
||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||| command to the Go menu.
|||
||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||| How?
|||
||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar,
||| click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars
||| tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the menu
||| displays a list of commands, point to where you want the command to
||| appear, and then release the mouse.
||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||
||| Thank you for your help.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Uhhh, after having been beaten soundly, I must retract my previous
statement.

There ARE no bugs in Outlook 2003...

no...





wait...




Made you look!

(sorry - a little Sunday levity)


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted w/out
reading.



After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
nsnews.microsoft.com <[email protected]> asked:

| Russ,
| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks good
| enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and Outlook
| Express, which I have avoided for years.
| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus Organizer
| 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys, that worked
| the best.
| Do you know where I can see a list possible "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|
|
|
| || It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
|| workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your
|| newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook Express,
|| which you can still easily do:
|| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
|| on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only mode.
|| In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
|| "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option
||
||
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||| returns in both places).
||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||| Instruction from help file below:
||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||| command to the Go menu.
|||
||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||| How?
|||
||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar,
||| click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars
||| tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the menu
||| displays a list of commands, point to where you want the command to
||| appear, and then release the mouse.
||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||
||| Thank you for your help.

 

[Bruce]

I want to thank you for that reply too, Russ. I just recently switched to
Outlook 2003 too. I added the News command to the Go menu. The first time i
did it, it worked fine. Next time, the command was still there but it
didn't open the newsreader...instead it opened a directore of some
sort...don't know which. good to know it's a known issue

--
Bruce

No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first potential bug
that I've seen, but many of these may just be users' not realizing that OE
has always been the news reader for Outlook. I'm sure some will turn up, but
OL2003 is far and away the most solid release of Outlook I've seen yet.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Russ,
Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the reader.
There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks good enough for me
finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and Outlook Express, which I have
avoided for years.
To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus Organizer 5.0 and
them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys, that worked the best.
Do you know where I can see a list possible "bugs" in Outlook 2003?

It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your newsreader.
It only launched a news only version of Outlook Express, which you can still
easily do:
You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only mode.
In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
"drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of Outlook
then
option is lost from Go menu and also option to customize Go menu

does
not

have News as an option (if I start Outlook Express and make it the defaut
newsreader, the option returns in both places).
Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.

Instruction
from

help file below:
The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News command to
the
Go menu.

1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
How?

1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options
that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize
on
the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar
Options
arrow .
2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
3.. Click the Commands tab.
4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without releasing
the
mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the menu displays a

list

of

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Try using the "Reset" button on the Customize option from right ciicking on
the toolbar. It should get you back at least the menu option to add to a
toolbar.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.



After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Bruce <[email protected]> asked:

| I want to thank you for that reply too, Russ. I just recently
| switched to Outlook 2003 too. I added the News command to the Go
| menu. The first time i did it, it worked fine. Next time, the
| command was still there but it didn't open the newsreader...instead
| it opened a directore of some sort...don't know which. good to know
| it's a known issue
|
| --
| Bruce
| || No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first
|| potential bug that I've seen, but many of these may just be users'
|| not realizing that OE has always been the news reader for Outlook.
|| I'm sure some will turn up, but OL2003 is far and away the most
|| solid release of Outlook I've seen yet. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| Russ,
||| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
||| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks good
||| enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and
||| Outlook Express, which I have avoided for years.
||| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus
||| Organizer 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys,
||| that worked the best. Do you know where I can see a list possible
||| "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|||
|||
|||
||| |||| It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
|||| workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your
|||| newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook
|||| Express, which you can still easily do:
|||| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
|||| on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only
|||| mode. In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
|||| "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||||| returns in both places).
||||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||||| Instruction from help file below:
||||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||||| command to the Go menu.
|||||
||||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||||| How?
|||||
||||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar,
||||| click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars
||||| tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
||||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the
||||| menu displays a list of commands, point to where you want the
||||| command to appear, and then release the mouse.
||||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||||
||||| Thank you for your help.

 

[Mike Lopez]

That doesn't even work (for me).

Try using the "Reset" button on the Customize option from right ciicking on
the toolbar. It should get you back at least the menu option to add to a
toolbar.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.



After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Bruce <[email protected]> asked:

| I want to thank you for that reply too, Russ. I just recently
| switched to Outlook 2003 too. I added the News command to the Go
| menu. The first time i did it, it worked fine. Next time, the
| command was still there but it didn't open the newsreader...instead
| it opened a directore of some sort...don't know which. good to know
| it's a known issue
|
| --
| Bruce
| || No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first
|| potential bug that I've seen, but many of these may just be users'
|| not realizing that OE has always been the news reader for Outlook.
|| I'm sure some will turn up, but OL2003 is far and away the most
|| solid release of Outlook I've seen yet. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| Russ,
||| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
||| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks good
||| enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and
||| Outlook Express, which I have avoided for years.
||| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus
||| Organizer 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys,
||| that worked the best. Do you know where I can see a list possible
||| "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|||
|||
|||
||| |||| It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find a
|||| workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually your
|||| newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook
|||| Express, which you can still easily do:
|||| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command line
|||| on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader only
|||| mode. In the Open box, type the following line, and then click OK:
|||| "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe" /option
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||||| returns in both places).
||||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||||| Instruction from help file below:
||||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||||| command to the Go menu.
|||||
||||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||||| How?
|||||
||||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar,
||||| click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars
||||| tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
||||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the
||||| menu displays a list of commands, point to where you want the
||||| command to appear, and then release the mouse.
||||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||||
||||| Thank you for your help.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Try setting OE as the default newsreader under Control Panel->Internet
Options->Programs tab.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Mike Lopez <[email protected]> asked:

| That doesn't even work (for me).
|
| || Try using the "Reset" button on the Customize option from right
|| ciicking on the toolbar. It should get you back at least the menu
|| option to add to a toolbar.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be
|| deleted w/out reading.
||
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Bruce <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| I want to thank you for that reply too, Russ. I just recently
||| switched to Outlook 2003 too. I added the News command to the Go
||| menu. The first time i did it, it worked fine. Next time, the
||| command was still there but it didn't open the newsreader...instead
||| it opened a directore of some sort...don't know which. good to know
||| it's a known issue
|||
||| --
||| Bruce
||| |||| No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first
|||| potential bug that I've seen, but many of these may just be users'
|||| not realizing that OE has always been the news reader for Outlook.
|||| I'm sure some will turn up, but OL2003 is far and away the most
|||| solid release of Outlook I've seen yet. --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| Russ,
||||| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
||||| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks
||||| good enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and
||||| Outlook Express, which I have avoided for years.
||||| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus
||||| Organizer 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys,
||||| that worked the best. Do you know where I can see a list possible
||||| "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find
|||||| a workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually
|||||| your newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook
|||||| Express, which you can still easily do:
|||||| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command
|||||| line on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader
|||||| only mode. In the Open box, type the following line, and then
|||||| click OK: "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe"
|||||| /option
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| ||||||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||||||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||||||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||||||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||||||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||||||| returns in both places).
||||||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||||||| Instruction from help file below:
||||||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||||||| command to the Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||||||| How?
|||||||
||||||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||||||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a
||||||| toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the
||||||| Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||||||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click
||||||| Customize.
||||||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||||||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||||||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||||||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the
||||||| menu displays a list of commands, point to where you want the
||||||| command to appear, and then release the mouse.
||||||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||||||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||||||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| Thank you for your help.

 

[nsnews.microsoft.com]

It has been working fine. I check those setting via IE and OE is the
newsreader program.
Thank you all for the help. Outlook does not have its' own news reader.

Try setting OE as the default newsreader under Control Panel->Internet
Options->Programs tab.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Mike Lopez <[email protected]> asked:

| That doesn't even work (for me).
|
| || Try using the "Reset" button on the Customize option from right
|| ciicking on the toolbar. It should get you back at least the menu
|| option to add to a toolbar.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be
|| deleted w/out reading.
||
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Bruce <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| I want to thank you for that reply too, Russ. I just recently
||| switched to Outlook 2003 too. I added the News command to the Go
||| menu. The first time i did it, it worked fine. Next time, the
||| command was still there but it didn't open the newsreader...instead
||| it opened a directore of some sort...don't know which. good to know
||| it's a known issue
|||
||| --
||| Bruce
||| |||| No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first
|||| potential bug that I've seen, but many of these may just be users'
|||| not realizing that OE has always been the news reader for Outlook.
|||| I'm sure some will turn up, but OL2003 is far and away the most
|||| solid release of Outlook I've seen yet. --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| Russ,
||||| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
||||| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks
||||| good enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and
||||| Outlook Express, which I have avoided for years.
||||| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus
||||| Organizer 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys,
||||| that worked the best. Do you know where I can see a list possible
||||| "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find
|||||| a workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually
|||||| your newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook
|||||| Express, which you can still easily do:
|||||| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command
|||||| line on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader
|||||| only mode. In the Open box, type the following line, and then
|||||| click OK: "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe"
|||||| /option
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| ||||||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||||||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||||||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||||||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||||||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||||||| returns in both places).
||||||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||||||| Instruction from help file below:
||||||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||||||| command to the Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||||||| How?
|||||||
||||||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||||||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a
||||||| toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the
||||||| Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||||||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click
||||||| Customize.
||||||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||||||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||||||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||||||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the
||||||| menu displays a list of commands, point to where you want the
||||||| command to appear, and then release the mouse.
||||||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||||||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||||||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| Thank you for your help.

 

[aL Szandy]

It has been working fine. I check those setting via IE and OE is the
newsreader program.
Thank you all for the help. Outlook does not have its' own news reader.

yes, i confirm.
and more, i made a "clean" installation of office 2003. and outlook
express was chosen as an default newsreader. but when pressing News
button i see outlook express 6.00.2600.0000 (xpclient), that comes
with windowsXP, not with office 2003. will it be an official bug?
can anyone from microsoft tell something definite?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There is no bug. Outlook has always used Outlook Express for a news reader.
IE/OE is a component of your operating system, not Office.

 

[Carl J. Bauman]

I don't know if this contributes anything substantive to the discussion or
not but the following relates my experience with this issue.

I was stuck for a while where the "News" option had disappeared from my "Go"
menu and the option was no longer available in the "Add or remove
buttons->Customize" dialogue. After reading this posting, I set "Outlook
Express" as the default newsreader under "Control Panel->Internet->
Options->Programs". It was, btw, the only option for newsreaders in that
dialogue. At this point, the "News" option showed up again on the
"Customize" dialogue, so I re-added it to my Go menu.

When I opened "News" from the "Go" menu, a dialogue came up telling me that
"Outlook Newsreader" was not my default newsreader and asking me did I want
to make it my default. I answered yes and left the box checked that said
always check to see if "Outlook Newsreader" is my default.

After I was done with "Outlook Newsreader" and had closed it out, the "News"
option had once more disappeared from my "Go" menu and from the "Customize"
dialogue. When I looked at "Control Panel->Internet-> Options->Programs",
nothing was set as my default newsreader.

At this point, I reset "Outlook Express" as my default. It was still the
only option in that dialogue. The "News" option showed back up in my
"Customize" dialogue, so I added it back into my "Go" menu. This time when
I opened "News" from my "Go" menu, I said no to the make "Outlook
Newsreader" my default newsreader question and unchecked the "always check"
checkbox.

Since then I've closed both Outlook and Outlook Express several times and
I've logged off and on to my Windows session. The "News" option appears to
be staying put on my "Go" menu in Outlook.

I may be wrong but my take on this is that, for some reason:
1) The Outlook "Add or remove buttons->Customize" dialogue doesn't display
a "News" option unless you have a default reader set up.
2) Windows is differentiating between "Outlook Express" and "Outlook
Newsreader".
3) "Outlook Newsreader" isn't registered as an application so when you set
it as the default in the popup dialogue, it clears the default reader
setting in "Control Panel->Internet-> Options->Programs".

HTH,
Carl

Try setting OE as the default newsreader under Control Panel->Internet
Options->Programs tab.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Mike Lopez <[email protected]> asked:

| That doesn't even work (for me).
|
| || Try using the "Reset" button on the Customize option from right
|| ciicking on the toolbar. It should get you back at least the menu
|| option to add to a toolbar.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be
|| deleted w/out reading.
||
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Bruce <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| I want to thank you for that reply too, Russ. I just recently
||| switched to Outlook 2003 too. I added the News command to the Go
||| menu. The first time i did it, it worked fine. Next time, the
||| command was still there but it didn't open the newsreader...instead
||| it opened a directore of some sort...don't know which. good to know
||| it's a known issue
|||
||| --
||| Bruce
||| |||| No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first
|||| potential bug that I've seen, but many of these may just be users'
|||| not realizing that OE has always been the news reader for Outlook.
|||| I'm sure some will turn up, but OL2003 is far and away the most
|||| solid release of Outlook I've seen yet. --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| Russ,
||||| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
||||| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks
||||| good enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and
||||| Outlook Express, which I have avoided for years.
||||| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus
||||| Organizer 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys,
||||| that worked the best. Do you know where I can see a list possible
||||| "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find
|||||| a workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually
|||||| your newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook
|||||| Express, which you can still easily do:
|||||| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command
|||||| line on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader
|||||| only mode. In the Open box, type the following line, and then
|||||| click OK: "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe"
|||||| /option
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| ||||||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||||||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||||||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||||||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||||||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||||||| returns in both places).
||||||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||||||| Instruction from help file below:
||||||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||||||| command to the Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||||||| How?
|||||||
||||||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||||||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a
||||||| toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the
||||||| Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||||||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click
||||||| Customize.
||||||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||||||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||||||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||||||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the
||||||| menu displays a list of commands, point to where you want the
||||||| command to appear, and then release the mouse.
||||||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||||||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||||||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| Thank you for your help.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Precisely. That is what most users are reporting. The bottom line is that to
have the Go > News command available in Outlook, you must set OE as the
default news reader in Control Panel, but must NOT set it as the default
news reader within OE itself. This ONLY applies to Outlook 2003, not
previous versions.
I'm sure there is a logical reason for this, but so far the logic is eluding
me. Ours is not to question why, it is to find the workarounds.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I don't know if this contributes anything substantive to the discussion or
not but the following relates my experience with this issue.

I was stuck for a while where the "News" option had disappeared from my "Go"
menu and the option was no longer available in the "Add or remove
buttons->Customize" dialogue. After reading this posting, I set "Outlook
Express" as the default newsreader under "Control Panel->Internet->
Options->Programs". It was, btw, the only option for newsreaders in that
dialogue. At this point, the "News" option showed up again on the
"Customize" dialogue, so I re-added it to my Go menu.

When I opened "News" from the "Go" menu, a dialogue came up telling me that
"Outlook Newsreader" was not my default newsreader and asking me did I want
to make it my default. I answered yes and left the box checked that said
always check to see if "Outlook Newsreader" is my default.

After I was done with "Outlook Newsreader" and had closed it out, the "News"
option had once more disappeared from my "Go" menu and from the "Customize"
dialogue. When I looked at "Control Panel->Internet-> Options->Programs",
nothing was set as my default newsreader.

At this point, I reset "Outlook Express" as my default. It was still the
only option in that dialogue. The "News" option showed back up in my
"Customize" dialogue, so I added it back into my "Go" menu. This time when
I opened "News" from my "Go" menu, I said no to the make "Outlook
Newsreader" my default newsreader question and unchecked the "always check"
checkbox.

Since then I've closed both Outlook and Outlook Express several times and
I've logged off and on to my Windows session. The "News" option appears to
be staying put on my "Go" menu in Outlook.

I may be wrong but my take on this is that, for some reason:
1) The Outlook "Add or remove buttons->Customize" dialogue doesn't display
a "News" option unless you have a default reader set up.
2) Windows is differentiating between "Outlook Express" and "Outlook
Newsreader".
3) "Outlook Newsreader" isn't registered as an application so when you set
it as the default in the popup dialogue, it clears the default reader
setting in "Control Panel->Internet-> Options->Programs".

HTH,
Carl

Try setting OE as the default newsreader under Control Panel->Internet
Options->Programs tab.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Mike Lopez <[email protected]> asked:

| That doesn't even work (for me).
|
| || Try using the "Reset" button on the Customize option from right
|| ciicking on the toolbar. It should get you back at least the menu
|| option to add to a toolbar.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be
|| deleted w/out reading.
||
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Bruce <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| I want to thank you for that reply too, Russ. I just recently
||| switched to Outlook 2003 too. I added the News command to the Go
||| menu. The first time i did it, it worked fine. Next time, the
||| command was still there but it didn't open the newsreader...instead
||| it opened a directore of some sort...don't know which. good to know
||| it's a known issue
|||
||| --
||| Bruce
||| |||| No such list at this time. The news reader issue was the first
|||| potential bug that I've seen, but many of these may just be users'
|||| not realizing that OE has always been the news reader for Outlook.
|||| I'm sure some will turn up, but OL2003 is far and away the most
|||| solid release of Outlook I've seen yet. --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| Russ,
||||| Thank you for the reply. It does now open Outlook Express and the
||||| reader. There are a few "quirks" in Outlook 2003, but it looks
||||| good enough for me finnally make the switch out of Sidekick98 and
||||| Outlook Express, which I have avoided for years.
||||| To get the data from Sidekick98, I first imported to Lotus
||||| Organizer 5.0 and them imported to Outlook 2003. After many trys,
||||| that worked the best. Do you know where I can see a list possible
||||| "bugs" in Outlook 2003?
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| It appears to be a bug. We're still trying to see if we can find
|||||| a workaround. Even when it worked, Outlook was never acrually
|||||| your newsreader. It only launched a news only version of Outlook
|||||| Express, which you can still easily do:
|||||| You can add the "outnews" or "newsonly" switch to the command
|||||| line on any shortcut to OE (msimn.exe) to open OE in newsreader
|||||| only mode. In the Open box, type the following line, and then
|||||| click OK: "drive:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe"
|||||| /option
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| ||||||| Have been using Outlook Express as my default newsreader.
||||||| Tried to change Outlook 2003 to default. Works til restart of
||||||| Outlook then option is lost from Go menu and also option to
||||||| customize Go menu does not have News as an option (if I start
||||||| Outlook Express and make it the defaut newsreader, the option
||||||| returns in both places).
||||||| Steps taken to make Outlook 2003 the default newsreader.
||||||| Instruction from help file below:
||||||| The first time you use the newsreader, you must add the News
||||||| command to the Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| 1.. Add the News command to the Go menu.
||||||| How?
|||||||
||||||| 1.. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and
||||||| options that you use to carry out commands. To display a
||||||| toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the
||||||| Toolbars tab.), click the Toolbar Options arrow .
||||||| 2.. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click
||||||| Customize.
||||||| 3.. Click the Commands tab.
||||||| 4.. In the Categories list, click Go.
||||||| 5.. In the Commands list, click News, and drag it, without
||||||| releasing the mouse, until it rests over the Go menu. When the
||||||| menu displays a list of commands, point to where you want the
||||||| command to appear, and then release the mouse.
||||||| 2.. Click the Go menu, and then click
||||||| Did that and it worked. Closed Outlook 2003. Restarted and the
||||||| New options was no longer in Go menu.
|||||||
||||||| Thank you for your help.