Vic just reminded me that you could also make a shortcut to do this and put a new icon on your desktop...so, if you use this icon instead of the default Outlook icon, this would open Outlook with all preview panes closed with one click Here's how to do it: Right click your desktop and choose New>Shortcut In the first box, put this inside the box "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Outlook.exe" /nopreview (of course this assumes this is the location of Outlook on your machine, so you should change this if it is different) Click next and go thru the rest of the steps...name is NoPreview or something Now, when you want to open Outlook, just use this shortcut instead of the default one Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 1:07 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Linda- preview pane in outlook.. new thoughts. I'm sure Tina already saw this suggestion from Vic in his group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinTips-Tricks/ ) ....but I asked Vic if I could post it here so you guys and gals can see it...so here's a way to open Outlook with no preview panes: As for Preview Pane in Outlook, I don't know if this will help but you can use the no preview pane option to close the Preview Pane in all folders at once on startup. ie "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Outlook.exe" /nopreview You can put that into a bat file or shortcut which when double clicked will open Outlook with no preview pane in any folder. That way it doesn't matter if you forget. Anytime you start Outlook, all preview panes will be closed. Thanks Vic!!! Linda ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************