Outlook with daul monitors

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Tom Coffinger

I am a fledglying Access/VBA person with a medium complexity Access app
which makes numerous calls to Outlook for sending mails. All works fine
with one very annoying exception.

On my setup I am running dual monitors. When working with Access visible on
the second monitor, if I trigger an event that launches a email, it locks
up. The exact same function works fine if I am working on the primary
monitor. Here is what I THINK is happening.

When launching an email from another office app, the security box pops to
the front warning someone is sending an email, which you then have to click
on yes. This box never paints anywhere when on the secondary monitor. ( How
ever on the primary monitor, it immediatly paints and you can click yes. )
I am relatively sure that this is the cause of the lockup, however, I have
not been able to see a process that looks like it is this security dialouge,
that I could kill or bring to the front.

Has anyone else seen this kind of issue? Have any ideas of how to force
outlook to finish opening that dialouge box? Obviously I can just run
Access on the primary monitor, but, that kind of defeats the purpose.


Specs

Offce 2k3 current on patches
Winxp Pro current on patches
A.D. - logged in with local and domain admin rights


Thanks!!
 
There is some issues with office 2003 and the software that runs the dual
displays ati, matrox etc.
contact the video card vendor.

--
"Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with the computer.

"It never does quite what I want."

"I wish Christopher Robin were here."
 
Yes... outlook has a problem with dialogs when it's on the secondary
monitor. I think the best solution is to learn how to send mail without
invoking the security dialog. Outlookcode.com has information on using
redemption to avoid the alert.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Diane,

Thanks for the tip! I have actually looked many times for solutions to
remove the warning and only found hte solution involving modifications to
the Exchange Server. I just skimmed through the 'outlook redemption' and
it seems to be ideal for me.

Tom


Diane Poremsky said:
Yes... outlook has a problem with dialogs when it's on the secondary
monitor. I think the best solution is to learn how to send mail without
invoking the security dialog. Outlookcode.com has information on using
redemption to avoid the alert.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/


Tom Coffinger said:
I am a fledglying Access/VBA person with a medium complexity Access app
which makes numerous calls to Outlook for sending mails. All works fine
with one very annoying exception.

On my setup I am running dual monitors. When working with Access visible
on
the second monitor, if I trigger an event that launches a email, it locks
up. The exact same function works fine if I am working on the primary
monitor. Here is what I THINK is happening.

When launching an email from another office app, the security box pops to
the front warning someone is sending an email, which you then have to
click
on yes. This box never paints anywhere when on the secondary monitor. (
How
ever on the primary monitor, it immediatly paints and you can click yes. )
I am relatively sure that this is the cause of the lockup, however, I have
not been able to see a process that looks like it is this security
dialouge,
that I could kill or bring to the front.

Has anyone else seen this kind of issue? Have any ideas of how to force
outlook to finish opening that dialouge box? Obviously I can just run
Access on the primary monitor, but, that kind of defeats the purpose.


Specs

Offce 2k3 current on patches
Winxp Pro current on patches
A.D. - logged in with local and domain admin rights


Thanks!!
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