recover missing news

E

Ed

Help, the news option has disappeared from my add/remove buttons menu in
Office 2003, how do I get it back so I can read my newsgroups?
 
E

Ed

Tried resetting, that did not bring it back. I tried re-installing office,
but it kept the old settings and "News" is still unavailable as an option in
the Go Menu Add/Remove Buttons. If there was an alternative way to access
newsgroups, I would use that.
 
B

Bob I

Odd! As for the groups, it's just using Outlook Express, so you
could/can fire that up without Outlook. As to the "News" Menu item, try
this.
R-click the Menu bar, pick Customize, Commands, left pane select "Go",
then in right pane, left click and drag "News" over onto "Go" on the
Menu and then when it opens drop it in the location you want it. Then
close the "customise" box.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

To get the News command back, go back to the Programs tab in Control Panel |
Internet Options and change the default newsreader to Outlook Express. If
OE prompts you to make it your default newsreader the next time you launch
it, clear the "Always perform this check..." box and then click the No
button.

You may need to reset the Menu Bar and/or restart Outlook and/or reboot your
machine in order to complete the process. Not everyone is reporting success
with this method, but try it and see what happens. If all else fails, you
can always create a desktop shortcut to Outlook Express and include the
/outnews switch -- that gives you the same result as accessing the
newsreader via the News command in Outlook.


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After furious head scratching, Ed asked:

| The menu where I should drag "news" from is the where it is missing.
|
| "Bob I" wrote:
|
|| Odd! As for the groups, it's just using Outlook Express, so you
|| could/can fire that up without Outlook. As to the "News" Menu item,
|| try this.
|| R-click the Menu bar, pick Customize, Commands, left pane select
|| "Go", then in right pane, left click and drag "News" over onto "Go"
|| on the Menu and then when it opens drop it in the location you want
|| it. Then close the "customise" box.
||
|| Ed wrote:
||
||| Tried resetting, that did not bring it back. I tried re-installing
||| office, but it kept the old settings and "News" is still
||| unavailable as an option in the Go Menu Add/Remove Buttons. If
||| there was an alternative way to access newsgroups, I would use that.
|||
||| "Bob I" wrote:
|||
|||
|||| R-click the Menu bar, pick Customize, Toolbar tab, select Menu bar,
|||| click reset.
||||
|||| Ed wrote:
||||
||||
||||| Help, the news option has disappeared from my add/remove buttons
||||| menu in Office 2003, how do I get it back so I can read my
||||| newsgroups?
 
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