Microsoft Outlook Configuration

[david]

Hi there..
I need outlook for simple Adress book and date book etc,
not for internet/email options. I have tried to set it up
without the internet options but I am having trouble
When I click on the outlook icon to load it,
It says Choose a profile. This is for home use and it
gives me MS Exchange settings as an option. I click NEW to
set it up for no internet. It gives me two options
1 Use the following information services
Microsoft Exchange Server
Internet Email

2 Manually configure information services


When I choose to Manually configure information services
then it gives the profile name as MS Exchange
Settings1 ..... I click ok ok and a popup screen appears
saying,
Unable to open your default e-mail folders. outlook could
not start because a location to send and receive mail
could not be found. To add a location, such as a personal
folder file, double-click the Mail icon in Windows Control
Panel.

Would you like to open your default file system folder
instead?

I want to have a column on the left side that says
Outlook today
Calender
Contacts
Tasks
Notepad
etc
etc.
Please show me how to set up this simple process.
Thanks
David.

 

[CJRhoads]

Outlook is basically an email package with a side of
contact management. You should switch to a real contact
management package if you don't want email - it will do a
better job with less trouble. Plain old Excel or Access
would work better for what you want to do than Outlook.

If you insist on using Outlook, then perhaps you can set
it up for internet email, and then tell it to never poll
for email but wait for you to send and receive manually.
Then never hit the button. Do not choose Exchange, since
you don't have an Exchange server to configure. With
Internet you can fake it out and put bogus information in
the configuration screens.

You may be able to use Outlook without giving it the
information it needs to do email, but I don't know how you
would do that - nor do I know anyone who has ever tried.
Since Outlook is an email package, it doesn't make sense
that you can use it without using the email portion.
(It's like saying you want to set up a wordprocessor, but
don't want it to write letters or documents.)

Just my opinion
CJ Rhoads

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

First, please post the version of Outlook you are using. You can certainly
use Outlook in an "No E-Mail" configuration and many do. If you post back
the version that you have, I can help you configure it for no mail, just
contact management.

--
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
david <[email protected]> asked:

| Hi there..
| I need outlook for simple Adress book and date book etc,
| not for internet/email options. I have tried to set it up
| without the internet options but I am having trouble
| When I click on the outlook icon to load it,
| It says Choose a profile. This is for home use and it
| gives me MS Exchange settings as an option. I click NEW to
| set it up for no internet. It gives me two options
| 1 Use the following information services
| Microsoft Exchange Server
| Internet Email
|
| 2 Manually configure information services
|
|
| When I choose to Manually configure information services
| then it gives the profile name as MS Exchange
| Settings1 ..... I click ok ok and a popup screen appears
| saying,
| Unable to open your default e-mail folders. outlook could
| not start because a location to send and receive mail
| could not be found. To add a location, such as a personal
| folder file, double-click the Mail icon in Windows Control
| Panel.
|
| Would you like to open your default file system folder
| instead?
|
| I want to have a column on the left side that says
| Outlook today
| Calender
| Contacts
| Tasks
| Notepad
| etc
| etc.
| Please show me how to set up this simple process.
| Thanks
| David.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Actually, it is a PIM, not a souped up e-mail program. The biggest part of
Outlook is its collaboration ability, not the tiny mail portion.

--
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
CJRhoads <[email protected]> asked:

| Outlook is basically an email package with a side of
| contact management. You should switch to a real contact
| management package if you don't want email - it will do a
| better job with less trouble. Plain old Excel or Access
| would work better for what you want to do than Outlook.
|
| If you insist on using Outlook, then perhaps you can set
| it up for internet email, and then tell it to never poll
| for email but wait for you to send and receive manually.
| Then never hit the button. Do not choose Exchange, since
| you don't have an Exchange server to configure. With
| Internet you can fake it out and put bogus information in
| the configuration screens.
|
| You may be able to use Outlook without giving it the
| information it needs to do email, but I don't know how you
| would do that - nor do I know anyone who has ever tried.
| Since Outlook is an email package, it doesn't make sense
| that you can use it without using the email portion.
| (It's like saying you want to set up a wordprocessor, but
| don't want it to write letters or documents.)
|
| Just my opinion
| CJ Rhoads
|
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| Hi there..
|| I need outlook for simple Adress book and date book etc,
|| not for internet/email options. I have tried to set it up
|| without the internet options but I am having trouble
|| When I click on the outlook icon to load it,
|| It says Choose a profile. This is for home use and it
|| gives me MS Exchange settings as an option. I click NEW to
|| set it up for no internet. It gives me two options
|| 1 Use the following information services
|| Microsoft Exchange Server
|| Internet Email
||
|| 2 Manually configure information services
||
||
|| When I choose to Manually configure information services
|| then it gives the profile name as MS Exchange
|| Settings1 ..... I click ok ok and a popup screen appears
|| saying,
|| Unable to open your default e-mail folders. outlook could
|| not start because a location to send and receive mail
|| could not be found. To add a location, such as a personal
|| folder file, double-click the Mail icon in Windows Control
|| Panel.
||
|| Would you like to open your default file system folder
|| instead?
||
|| I want to have a column on the left side that says
|| Outlook today
|| Calender
|| Contacts
|| Tasks
|| Notepad
|| etc
|| etc.
|| Please show me how to set up this simple process.
|| Thanks
|| David.
|| .