How do I get my NEWS button back in Outlook 2003?

D

DC

I went through the following steps from the HELP system of Office Outlook
2003 to add the NEWS button to the GO menu:

================================================
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 News.
=================================================

Then I tried to slide the button elsewhere but managed (apparently) to
delete it. Now the above directions won't work to re-add the NEWS READER
button because it no longer appears in the COMMANDS list.

Any idea about how I can get that button back? I'm using my old Outlook
Express system to 'do' news and I'd just as soon use the Outlook version...
(frankly they look like the same engine with different colors but it
irritates me that I deleted the menu item.)

Thanks,
DC
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

There is a known problem with the News button in Outlook 2003.

You need to set Outlook Express as the default news reader under Control
Panel, Internet Options. The next time you open the news reader and it asks
if you want to make it the default for reading news, say NO.

Then, go back into Outlook and see if the news button is back under the Go
menu. If not, right click on the toolbar and on the first tab, select
Reset. Close and reopen Outlook and try it again.

--
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.
| I went through the following steps from the HELP system of Office Outlook
| 2003 to add the NEWS button to the GO menu:
|
| ================================================
| 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 News.
| =================================================
|
| Then I tried to slide the button elsewhere but managed (apparently) to
| delete it. Now the above directions won't work to re-add the NEWS READER
| button because it no longer appears in the COMMANDS list.
|
| Any idea about how I can get that button back? I'm using my old Outlook
| Express system to 'do' news and I'd just as soon use the Outlook
version...
| (frankly they look like the same engine with different colors but it
| irritates me that I deleted the menu item.)
|
| Thanks,
| DC
|
|
|
 
D

DC

I've followed your instructions and it works.... once.

The 'news' button does reappear in the GO menu but it is a "use it once"
button apparently. I have to reset things to get it to show up again. And
then once I use it... it is gone.

Any suggestions of what I can do to keep it there... or is there a way I can
create a shortcut to it on my desktop. IE. What is the executable name
that I can type in the RUN command line?

Thanks, I appreciate your help, Milly!
DC


Milly Staples said:
There is a known problem with the News button in Outlook 2003.

You need to set Outlook Express as the default news reader under Control
Panel, Internet Options. The next time you open the news reader and it asks
if you want to make it the default for reading news, say NO.

Then, go back into Outlook and see if the news button is back under the Go
menu. If not, right click on the toolbar and on the first tab, select
Reset. Close and reopen Outlook and try it again.

--
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.
| I went through the following steps from the HELP system of Office Outlook
| 2003 to add the NEWS button to the GO menu:
|
| ================================================
| 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 News.
| =================================================
|
| Then I tried to slide the button elsewhere but managed (apparently) to
| delete it. Now the above directions won't work to re-add the NEWS READER
| button because it no longer appears in the COMMANDS list.
|
| Any idea about how I can get that button back? I'm using my old Outlook
| Express system to 'do' news and I'd just as soon use the Outlook
version...
| (frankly they look like the same engine with different colors but it
| irritates me that I deleted the menu item.)
|
| Thanks,
| DC
|
|
|
Click to expand...
 
D

DC

Milly,
Is there a way I can just get the Newsgroups Folders to show up directly
inside my Outlook screens rather than launch a separate program? It would
be nice to have that particular folder tree just show up under my other Mail
folders in Outlook 2003.
Thanks,
DC
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook uses OE for news groups - it always has, and always will.

--
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
DC <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly,
| Is there a way I can just get the Newsgroups Folders to show up
| directly inside my Outlook screens rather than launch a separate
| program? It would be nice to have that particular folder tree just
| show up under my other Mail folders in Outlook 2003.
| Thanks,
| DC
|
|
| || There is a known problem with the News button in Outlook 2003.
||
|| You need to set Outlook Express as the default news reader under
|| Control Panel, Internet Options. The next time you open the news
|| reader and it asks if you want to make it the default for reading
|| news, say NO.
||
|| Then, go back into Outlook and see if the news button is back under
|| the Go menu. If not, right click on the toolbar and on the first
|| tab, select Reset. Close and reopen Outlook and try it again.
||
|| --
|| 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.
|| ||| I went through the following steps from the HELP system of Office
||| Outlook 2003 to add the NEWS button to the GO menu:
|||
||| ================================================
||| 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 News.
||| =================================================
|||
||| Then I tried to slide the button elsewhere but managed (apparently)
||| to delete it. Now the above directions won't work to re-add the
||| NEWS READER button because it no longer appears in the COMMANDS
||| list.
|||
||| Any idea about how I can get that button back? I'm using my old
||| Outlook Express system to 'do' news and I'd just as soon use the
||| Outlook version... (frankly they look like the same engine with
||| different colors but it irritates me that I deleted the menu item.)
|||
||| Thanks,
||| DC
 
D

DC

Milly,

Is there anyway to use a shortcut or something inside Outlook to get the
Outlook Express news views to come up in Outlook?

If not, I'm dropping the subject.

Thanks,
DC


Milly Staples said:
Outlook uses OE for news groups - it always has, and always will.

--
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
DC <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly,
| Is there a way I can just get the Newsgroups Folders to show up
| directly inside my Outlook screens rather than launch a separate
| program? It would be nice to have that particular folder tree just
| show up under my other Mail folders in Outlook 2003.
| Thanks,
| DC
|
|
| || There is a known problem with the News button in Outlook 2003.
||
|| You need to set Outlook Express as the default news reader under
|| Control Panel, Internet Options. The next time you open the news
|| reader and it asks if you want to make it the default for reading
|| news, say NO.
||
|| Then, go back into Outlook and see if the news button is back under
|| the Go menu. If not, right click on the toolbar and on the first
|| tab, select Reset. Close and reopen Outlook and try it again.
||
|| --
|| 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.
|| ||| I went through the following steps from the HELP system of Office
||| Outlook 2003 to add the NEWS button to the GO menu:
|||
||| ================================================
||| 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 News.
||| =================================================
|||
||| Then I tried to slide the button elsewhere but managed (apparently)
||| to delete it. Now the above directions won't work to re-add the
||| NEWS READER button because it no longer appears in the COMMANDS
||| list.
|||
||| Any idea about how I can get that button back? I'm using my old
||| Outlook Express system to 'do' news and I'd just as soon use the
||| Outlook version... (frankly they look like the same engine with
||| different colors but it irritates me that I deleted the menu item.)
|||
||| Thanks,
||| DC
Click to expand...
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Close Outlook. Go to control panel and open Internet Options. Under the
Programs tab, make Outlook Express your default news reader. Then go back
into Outlook and see if the News button is under the Go menu command when
you try to customize your toolbar. If yes, then drag it to the preferred
toolbar. Use it to open the news reader. When OE asks if you want to make
it the default, answer "no" and check the box to not ask you again.

--
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
DC <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly,
|
| Is there anyway to use a shortcut or something inside Outlook to get
| the Outlook Express news views to come up in Outlook?
|
| If not, I'm dropping the subject.
|
| Thanks,
| DC
|
|
| || Outlook uses OE for news groups - it always has, and always will.
||
|| --
|| 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
|| DC <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| Milly,
||| Is there a way I can just get the Newsgroups Folders to show up
||| directly inside my Outlook screens rather than launch a separate
||| program? It would be nice to have that particular folder tree just
||| show up under my other Mail folders in Outlook 2003.
||| Thanks,
||| DC
|||
|||
||| |||| There is a known problem with the News button in Outlook 2003.
||||
|||| You need to set Outlook Express as the default news reader under
|||| Control Panel, Internet Options. The next time you open the news
|||| reader and it asks if you want to make it the default for reading
|||| news, say NO.
||||
|||| Then, go back into Outlook and see if the news button is back under
|||| the Go menu. If not, right click on the toolbar and on the first
|||| tab, select Reset. Close and reopen Outlook and try it again.
||||
|||| --
|||| 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.
|||| ||||| I went through the following steps from the HELP system of Office
||||| Outlook 2003 to add the NEWS button to the GO menu:
|||||
||||| ================================================
||||| 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 News.
||||| =================================================
|||||
||||| Then I tried to slide the button elsewhere but managed
||||| (apparently) to delete it. Now the above directions won't work
||||| to re-add the NEWS READER button because it no longer appears in
||||| the COMMANDS list.
|||||
||||| Any idea about how I can get that button back? I'm using my old
||||| Outlook Express system to 'do' news and I'd just as soon use the
||||| Outlook version... (frankly they look like the same engine with
||||| different colors but it irritates me that I deleted the menu
||||| item.)
|||||
||||| Thanks,
||||| DC
 
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