Outlook send button and profile gone

[mishelle]

I was trying to restore an Outlook send button that disappeared, and
stupidly clicked on the "restore defaults in Microsoft Office" and
lost my user profile, with it's priceless address book and archived e-
mail. I appear to still have 500000 k in both the archive and profile
as .dat files, so think it's still viable.

On the new empty Outlook profile, though my address book is gone, the
auto fill-in still works in the to file. But there is still no send
button.

Questions:

1. How did you restore your profile? I can't find the .pst file. (This
is not on Exchange.)

2. How does one get the send button to "come back" to Outlook. It is
not grayed out but completely gone.

(I was told to
Exit Outlook 2003..
Delete the following file:
C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
\outcmd.dat
But do not have a user name any more so this didn't work. )

3. How can one save the "auto fill in" e-mail addresses to an address
book--or anyplace--if you don't know all the names?

 

[BillR [MVP]]

The .PST file is possibly hidden. Search hidden files and folders and you
should find it.
Rather than restoring the profile open the old PST file and copy data over
then close the old PST.
You need an account for the Send button to be active. 1st make sure you have
accounts added to Outlook. If you still have no Send button then right-click
on an Outlook toolbar, select Customize, and in the Toolbars tab select the
Standard toolbar and then click Reset.
auto-fill will repopulate after a while.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I was trying to restore an Outlook send button that disappeared, and
stupidly clicked on the "restore defaults in Microsoft Office" and
lost my user profile,

Plese don't multipost.