how can I minimize an email I am composing? NOT working properly

[ii.lola]

Outlook forces me to save and actually close an email I am composing just to
do anything else in Outlook. Is there a setting I can change to allow me to
do what I want without having to save and close them?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

How are you creating those messages?

 

[ii.lola]

The same way I created emails for 15 years or more using OE. It doesn't
matter what technique I use to start an email, I cannot minimize any.

 

[ii.lola]

The same way I started emails in OE since the invention of OE. It doesn't
matter how I start an email, I cannot minimize any.

 

[Slipstick]

The same way I created emails for 15 years or more using OE. It doesn't
matter what technique I use to start an email, I cannot minimize any.

Are you using Outlook or Outlook Express?



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[Evan Platt]

The same way I created emails for 15 years or more using OE. It doesn't
matter what technique I use to start an email, I cannot minimize any.

Outlook was introduced in 1997.

 

[VanguardLH]

The same way I created emails for 15 years or more using OE. It doesn't
matter what technique I use to start an email, I cannot minimize any.

So why are you asking about Outlook EXPRESS in *this* newsgroup which
discusses Outlook? Go ask in an OE newsgroup.

 

[ii.lola]

I am now using Outlook. Sorry, I seem to have confused everybody. My point
was simply that I have been creating emails for a very long time and how I
start them is no different than how one starts them in the more simplistic
MSOE. I could, however, in OE, minimize my emails whereas I cannot in MS
Office Outlook.

 

[ii.lola]

Sorry, I am asking about Outlook.

So why are you asking about Outlook EXPRESS in *this* newsgroup which
discusses Outlook? Go ask in an OE newsgroup.
.

 

[ii.lola]

I've been using computers since the late 70's, pre Microsoft; I can't recall
when this and that started and ended.

 

[Slipstick]

I am now using Outlook. Sorry, I seem to have confused everybody. M
poin
was simply that I have been creating emails for a very long time an
how
start them is no different than how one starts them in the mor
simplisti
MSOE. I could, however, in OE, minimize my emails whereas I cannot i
M
Office Outlook

As i mentioned earlier, if you use the file, send menus in othe
applications to call up Outlook, its always going to be like this - thi
is because it calls up the message form differently than it does if yo
use New message within Outlook.

http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090401.ht


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[Slipstick]

I've been using computers since the late 70's, pre Microsoft; I can't
recall
when this and that started and ended.
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It started when you started using Outlook and used the Send to menus in
other programs - it's a limitation of SimpleMAPI



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[ii.lola]

Yet MSOE does not have that problem?

That's is a good enough reason for me to quit using Outlook, I have to
forward files hourly.

Thanks for the straight answer.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Yet MSOE does not have that problem?

That's is a good enough reason for me to quit using Outlook, I have to
forward files hourly.

Thanks for the straight answer.

Outlook Express is not "Outlook lite" - it doesn't use ExtendedMAPI for
its usual "magic" so when other programs call it using SimpleMAPI, there
isn't a problem.

As for choosing OE over Outlook - you need to use the program that
meets *your* needs the best. If its OE, that's fine. If you need the
other features Outlook offers (like Calendaring or customization) then
you'll need to figure out a way to make it work.

Note: if you are using the Send to menu in Windows Explorer, you can
create a shortcut to avoid problems - see
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2007/20071221.htm. This will not
help you if you are forwarding from other programs though (Word, Excel,
IE, Acrobat etc). You can even use this method to address the messages.



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