Seeting "Outlook Today" as default page doesn't work. Fix?

[Wes Klang]

I'm running Office XP (with Outlook 2002) under Windows XP
Professional.

Outlook provides at least two ways of setting "Outlook Today" as the
default page (upon invocation of Outlook):
1. Cutomize Outlook Today-> When starting go to Outlook Today checkbox
2. Tools->Options->Other->Advance->Startup in this Folder->Outlook
Today

Unfortinately, neither of these methods works. I still get the Inbox
as my default page.

Any ideas on how to get around this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Wes Klang

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

It's probably the shortcut you're using to open Outlook. Some shortcuts are
preprogrammed to open Outlook in the Inbox -- for example, the one that
appears on the Windows XP Start menu. (It's a "check e-mail" shortcut and
it will automatically open the Inbox of whatever mail program you have set
as the default.) Other shortcuts may have a switch added to the end of the
target file path that specifies opening in one folder or another. Check
your shortcut and see if any of the above applies.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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