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Outlook gurus: How to make Outlook 2003 confirm before exiting?
My outlook minimizes to the tray and notifies me of new email. But if I accidentally close it instead of minimizing, I don't notice that it's not in the tray, and I sometimes miss a few hours of emails while at work if it's closed. All I want is for it to say, "Are you sure you want to exit Outlook?" Much obliged!
My outlook minimizes to the tray and notifies me of new email. But if I accidentally close it instead of minimizing, I don't notice that it's not in the tray, and I sometimes miss a few hours of emails while at work if it's closed. All I want is for it to say, "Are you sure you want to exit Outlook?" Much obliged!
Best answer: I'm not sure of a proper way to do that, but something close would be to enable the option to empty the items from the deleted items folder on exit, and then always keep at least one item in there. Then when you close Outlook, it will ask you if you really want to remove the deleted items. Unfortunately, this wouldn't give you the option to cancel out of the shutdown, but at least it would tip you off that Outlook was actually closing as opposed to just being minimized to the system tray.
posted by shinji_ikari at 8:18 AM on January 10, 2006
posted by shinji_ikari at 8:18 AM on January 10, 2006
Easy solution for you - place an unsent message (draft) in your outbox; everytime you exit it will ask if you really want to as you have unsent items.
Works like a charm.
posted by DrtyBlvd at 9:13 AM on January 10, 2006
Works like a charm.
posted by DrtyBlvd at 9:13 AM on January 10, 2006
Response by poster: DirtyBlvd, that would be a great solution if it worked. I composed a message to myself and closed it. When it asked me if I wanted to save I clicked yes. Then I moved it from my drafts to my outbox. Now it's sitting there, but outlook still exits without asking me. What gives?
posted by anomie at 11:57 AM on January 10, 2006
posted by anomie at 11:57 AM on January 10, 2006
Again - not exactly what you asked for, but why not set up a scheduled task to START OUTLOOK every 30 mins or whatever.
On my PC I cannot start more than on instance of Outlook, so the worst thing that could happen is that it brings Outlook into focus.
posted by mattr at 3:30 AM on January 11, 2006
On my PC I cannot start more than on instance of Outlook, so the worst thing that could happen is that it brings Outlook into focus.
posted by mattr at 3:30 AM on January 11, 2006
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posted by klarck at 8:17 AM on January 10, 2006