Automatic go to Input and send/receive on invocation?

[BudV]

Does Outlook have an option similar to what Outlook Express has: Upon
Invocation of Outlook, automatically go to the Input folder and issue a
send/receive?

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Automatic Send/Receive starts shortly after Outlook is opened provided you
have an automatic send/receive polling period set. How to set that depends
on your version of Outlook. you need to be more specific.

 

[BudV]

I'm using Outlook 2003 under WinXP Home SP2.

Automatic Send/Receive starts shortly after Outlook is opened provided you
have an automatic send/receive polling period set. How to set that depends
on your version of Outlook. you need to be more specific.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Ctrl + Alt + S goes into define send/receive groups. set a period to check
email there and Outlook will start checking shortly after it loads.

 

[BudV]

I used Ctrl+Alt+S and found nothing unusual there. For my own curiosity, and
for the sake of making this thread as meaningful as possible, I tried to
find how to get there using menus. I went through
Tools>Send/Receive>Send/Receive Settings and found that Disable Scheduled
Send/Receive was checked! I unchecked it and half of my request was solved.
Thank you very much!

The other half was wanting Outlook to open with a display of the Input
folder. Right now it displays Personal Folders and calendar events, which
is probably just as important to half the users as showing the Input folder,
so I don't have a legitimate complaint. If there is an option to
automatically display Input after Outlook loads, I'd like to know how to set
it.

 

[BudV]

"Input" with a capital "I".
I don't know how to re-state it any clearer:
"The other half was wanting Outlook to open with a display of the Input
folder."
and
"If there is an option to automatically display Input after Outlook
loads"

 

[BillR [MVP]]

there is no such thing as the input in Outlook regardless of how you spell
it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

"Input" with a capital "I".

I think you mean "Inbox". Click Tools>Options>Other>Advanced Options. Set
the Startup folder there.

 

[BudV]

Of course, Brian, you're right. Thank you.

Jeez, Bill, you have to pay attention to what I MEAN, not what I SAY!

My thanks to you both. That wraps up this thread very nicely.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

You could have meant anything and the responsibility is on you to be
accurate in your communication. I suspected that you meant Inbox but
replying to such would have defeated the purpose of learning for you.
You could have, after all, wanted the prompt to select a profile when
Outlook starts.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

"Automatically display input"???? what do you mean?
If you are referring to the send/receive status then look in the bottom
right corner of the main Outlook Window.

 

[BudV]

You're absolutely right, Bill. Never too old to learn. I'm 71, and I was a
business applications programmer for almost 50 years. Thanks again.