How do I permanently and globally disable the reading pane?

[David Kanter]

I just upgraded to Outlook 2003, and I noticed several rather annoying
features:

1. The reading pane is very large and always on by default

I hate the bloody reading pane, it just takes up real estate and doesn't
really add value to me. Others might feel differently and that's fine. How
do I disable the reading pane for all of outlook? I have about 20 folders of
email, so it's not practical to do it manually.....

2. Is there any way to 'pin' things in your nav menu so they always stay
there?

Thanks,

DK

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

1) yes, use the nopreview switch.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/switches.htm

2) if outlook closes properly, the nav pane is saved. if it crashes, it
doesn't. After closing outlook, see if it's still in task manager - if so,
it will crash when you exit windows.