Two icons in task bar

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George Hester

Why isn't one enough? Why have a taskbar window icon when Outlook 2003 is open AND another one in the system tray? Why Why Why? Isn't an icon in one location enough?

I have an application that allows me to minimize an open window to the system tray. With this boneheaded design I now have two icons in the system tray for an open Outlook 2003. Bone headed.

Also, Outlook 2003 email listings on the right hand side are too high. I don't need all that white space. Oh it's pretty but it is not functional. Now I can see maybe 10 emails to be read whereas before in previous versions of Outlook I could see like 30. Boneheaded.
 
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Roady

Hi George,

You might want to restrict your postings to the real issue instead of the
endless "Bone headed" remarks.

Ever clicked on the Notification icon? You'll see that there is
functionality there so here is your reason for the icon. Also you'll see a
"hide when minimized" option so when you don't use Outlook but still want to
have it open the Taskbar won't be cluttered with Outlook; another reason for
the icon. When you use Windows XP you can hide the notification in your
Taskbar options so you can reduce the amount of "clutter" for Outlook to
zero.

The fact that you are using an extra application that does the same
minimizing functionality as Outlook is a "bone headed" point for you; this
has got nothing to do with Microsoft Office Outlook. Choose your minimizing
applications more carefully like one that will allow you to configure which
programs will be minimized to tray. I believe Actual Title buttons is
capable of doing this.

You can change the location of the Reading Pane by using View in the Toolbar
so it will be at the bottom again or even switched off.
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Why isn't one enough? Why have a taskbar window icon when Outlook 2003 is
open AND another one in the system tray? Why Why Why? Isn't an icon in one
location enough?

I have an application that allows me to minimize an open window to the
system tray. With this boneheaded design I now have two icons in the system
tray for an open Outlook 2003. Bone headed.

Also, Outlook 2003 email listings on the right hand side are too high. I
don't need all that white space. Oh it's pretty but it is not functional.
Now I can see maybe 10 emails to be read whereas before in previous versions
of Outlook I could see like 30. Boneheaded.
 
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Roady

I mentioned it as well during the BETA as the icon is forced indeed. But
since I have my Outlook minimized when not working with it hiding the icon
isn't handy for me as I have to access Outlook quite often.

Please notice that this original post was about having two icons in the
notification area instead of one. One by Outlook and one by a third party
tool. Apperantly George wanted this hide to notification area option all
along and therefore used a third party tool for this. Now that Outlook holds
this functionality natively (with a functionality on the icon as well) he is
complaining about two icons instead of just reconfiguring his third party
tool for Outlook.

By the way; another tool that can be configured by application is AllToTray;
http://www.dntsoft.com/alltotray/index.html
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George Hester

Ok took care of that. Thanks. Can you help me with the other "boneheaded" item. Namely all this white space in messages as seen on the right-hand side when the Inbox is selected? It is irritating and I feel all contrained with only being able to see at most 10 messages at a time. I get 74 SPAMs a day and this is not helping.
 
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Roady

I'm not sure what you mean with the "all the white space" other then the
relocation of the Reading Pane which you can place by using View-> Reading
Pane. Could be me as well as I'm running Outlook here with a 1280×1024
resolution. I've got my Reading Pane at the bottom and I am able to see 16
mails and 24 message rules. I don't think you are talking about the word
wrap here in the message itself as this doesn't effect how many messages you
can see?

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Ok took care of that. Thanks. Can you help me with the other "boneheaded"
item. Namely all this white space in messages as seen on the right-hand
side when the Inbox is selected? It is irritating and I feel all contrained
with only being able to see at most 10 messages at a time. I get 74 SPAMs a
day and this is not helping.
 
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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]

Switch to single-line layout for that view and you'll get your whitespace
back. View | Arrange By | Current View | Customize Current View, Other
Settings button, clear the checkbox for "Use multi-line layout in widths
smaller than XX characters", then click the radio button for "Always use
single-line layout".

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Roady

Thanks! I see that Jocelyn already answered you.

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George Hester

Yes I did that. Now I'd like it Global. This applies to only one folder. I have many and it will take quite a long time to do this individually.
 
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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]

You could try changing it through the Define Views dialog box instead of
through Customize Current View...the changes *should* apply to all instances
of a particular view that way. (Note that I said *should*...YMMV.)

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George Hester

Well lets see i went to Outlook 2003 | View | Arrange By | Current View | Define Views... | Oh crap. I got a timeline view and now it is stuck there. I wioll have to delete the folder. Oh it doesn't work
 
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George Hester

Oh maybe it does. The folder I was in went to timeline view. Why don't know but it did. Probably because I looked at the message timeline at the bottom of the list. Looked at it said well that's nice and clicked OK. The folder went to Timeline view and all was stuck there. Couldn't get it to return. I even clicked restore previous settings. Did nothing. Furthermore the messages began to appear as just folders. No text next to them. Boy that was nasty. Anyway thank goodness this didn't apply to all the folders or I may have had to uninstall Outlook 2003. Kind of funny because you just KNOW if I had to do that the default view in the new installation would have been timeline view. Microsoft really needs to learn how to uninstall their software correctly.

Made a new folder and guess what it's default view was? Yup single-line. Thanks.
 
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Roady

Microsoft does but you need to know where the settings are stored. Views are
stored in the pst-file itself so reinstalling or even clearing the registry
won't help you a thing. To reset the views either start Outlook 2003 with
the /cleanviews commandline or import/export the pst-file (in)to a new one.

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Oh maybe it does. The folder I was in went to timeline view. Why don't
know but it did. Probably because I looked at the message timeline at the
bottom of the list. Looked at it said well that's nice and clicked OK. The
folder went to Timeline view and all was stuck there. Couldn't get it to
return. I even clicked restore previous settings. Did nothing.
Furthermore the messages began to appear as just folders. No text next to
them. Boy that was nasty. Anyway thank goodness this didn't apply to all
the folders or I may have had to uninstall Outlook 2003. Kind of funny
because you just KNOW if I had to do that the default view in the new
installation would have been timeline view. Microsoft really needs to learn
how to uninstall their software correctly.

Made a new folder and guess what it's default view was? Yup single-line.
Thanks.
 

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