Outlook Toolbars

[Teacher]

I rearranged the Outlook Toolbars the way I wanted, but everytime I open
Outlook it puts them back as they were. What setting needs to be changed to
allow me to lock the Toolbars in place?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Depends on which toolbars you changed. Positions of 3rd party toolbars are
not maintained by Outlook; that is up to the dev of the toolbar.

 

[Teacher]

Forget about 3rd party Toolbars, all Microsoft products come with Toolbars,
in Outlook 2007 they still look like Toolbars and NOT Ribbons as in the other
products. I've always been able to rearrange or drag around the Toolbars.
The program keeps going back to a default placement, I didn't have the
problem in earlier versions.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You might want to specify which toolbars you are talking about then. They
should stick. If they don't you might want to reset outcmd.dat by renaming
it to .old

 

[Teacher]

Toolbars Listed:
Standard *
Advanced
Web
Google Desktop *
McAfee *
Business Contact Manager for Outlook *

* The asterisked Toolbars are the ones that were displayed. I haven't
removed the check mark to make then disappear.

Are you asking me to find the file outcmd.dat on the hard drive and change
the extension to .old? That's the fix? Or should I say that's a glitch in
Outlook 2007?

 

[Tengu]

I have the very same problem and it's with the basic Outlook toolbars. If I
move the delete button down within the same toolbar real estate this happens
very quickly after customization. Now I have two computers, a desktop
running XP Pro and and laptop with a native install of Vista. In both cases
I'm using Office 2007/Outlook 2007. I do NOT have this problem in my Vista
install of Outlook 2007, but I DO with my XP install of Outlook 2007. Again,
it is NOT caused by a third party toolbar. It's a problem with the native
Outlook toolbars.

But then Outlook 2007 almost never shuts down adequately, either. My take
is that it's a buggy program and I hope these issues are being addressed for
an upcoming service pack.
Elliot Berlin

 

[Roady [MVP]]

See my other post to you. It is likely that you have a corruption in your
configuration. Since Outlook doesn't close properly on you, it won't store
toolbar customizations properly either. Solving your closing issue will most
likely also solve the toolbar issue for you.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

So which don't hold their position? Google, McAfee and even BCM are being
considered 3rd party toolbars in this case; they come from add-in
installations. Customizations to your Standard, Advanced and Web toolbar
should stick, just like customizations to your menu and newly defined
toolbars via View-> Toolbars-> Customize...