News reader won't work in outlook 2003

[Pierre]

I am having an issue with ms outlook 2003; The news reader won't work; Instead when I click on the news button I go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033 directory which has several files. Please help

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Make sure Outlook Express is selected as the default newsreader in Control
Panel-> Internet Options-> tab Programs

For additional solutions see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/news.htm

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[Gordon]

Make sure Outlook Express is selected as the default newsreader in Control
Panel-> Internet Options-> tab Programs

I always thought that for OE to open in Outlook Newsreader mode the default
newsreader should be OUTLOOK not Outlook EXPRESS........

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

It did, but not any more.
They changed the menu in Control Panel > Internet Options in Outlook 2003.
But they only changed the label to reflect more accurately what people were
actually doing; setting Outlook Express to be the default news reader.
Selecting Outlook Express now invokes the same settings that the "Outlook"
option did in previous versions. In fact, it you were to go into Outlook
Express itself and set it to be the default news reader from within the
application, you'd disable these settings and the News option in Outlook
2003 completely.
They do these things just to drive us all crazy.

 

[Gordon]

It did, but not any more.
They changed the menu in Control Panel > Internet Options in Outlook 2003.
But they only changed the label to reflect more accurately what people were
actually doing; setting Outlook Express to be the default news reader.
Selecting Outlook Express now invokes the same settings that the "Outlook"
option did in previous versions. In fact, it you were to go into Outlook
Express itself and set it to be the default news reader from within the
application, you'd disable these settings and the News option in Outlook
2003 completely.
They do these things just to drive us all crazy.

Thanks for the info - I'm on Office 2002..........

 

[Pierre]

Thanx. I managed to solve this issue (changing the default newsreader to outlook express)