Jeff said:
After using Outlook for years, you'd think I would learn the difference
between the left "X" (to delete) and the right "X", to exit. Yet in the heat
of battle, at least twice a day, I hit the right "X" and have to go through
the error check process.
Is there a way I can initiate a warning to stop me from shutting down
Outlook? "You are about to exit. Y/N"? This would be very helpful.
P.S. I know I'm not the only one out there doing this.
You could customize the toolbars to drag the "X" button farther away
from the "X" button in the titlebar.
You could remove the "X" button in the toolbar. If you still want it,
create a new toolbar with the Delete action and its button and then drag
the toolbar where you want, like to the left of another toolbar so now
it's way over on the left and as far as it can get from the "X" titlebar
button.
When customizing the toolbar buttons, you could edit the image that
shows for the "X" delete toolbar button. I added [bright] red to the
top side of the slashes for the "X", dark red (maroon) underneath the
slashes with some spots as grey. This gave the impression of a bright
red light shining down on the "X" character and giving it a bit more of
a 3-D appearance.
When customizing the toolbar buttons, you could configure that button to
NOT show an image and instead just show the text for its title, and you
can change the title.
And if all of that is still not enough to keep your fat finger from
wandering to the wrong button, and if you still want a popup warning,
you'll have to write or find some code to create an add-on to Outlook to
alter its behavior. There is an option to alert you when trying to
permanently delete an item but not an alert option when you are merely
moving the item to another folder with a pseudo-delete operation. Using
the "X" delete toolbar button merely means the item was *moved* into the
Deleted Items folder (so it really was not deleted but merely moved into
a different folder). It's still there to recover from your brain fart.
