Shortcuts in Office Help should not hijack open IE windows.

[ubnerwug]

When clicking a topic in Office help (I am using Oulook for the first time
and trying to figure it out), sometimes it opens a Microsoft Office Help
window. Sometimes it will hijack an open IE window. This is very annoying.
Especially when I am listening to some streaming content in the window that
was hijacked. Help should open its own new window if it needs one. Then it
won't interrupt content from an existing one and won't be trapped in a window
that is too small to view the page and cannot be resized.

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[Roady [MVP]]

That is an Internet Explorer option;
uncheck "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts"

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

 

[Ankur Bhatnagar]

This issue is worse than a minor inconvenience of interrupted music stream. I
was typing a long email in a web account when I Alt-Tab'ed to Outlook, opened
a new mail and clicked on a hyper link in it. That moment of thoughtlessness
erased my careful effort of more than an hour that I had spent in writing
that detailed email. Outlook opened that link in the same IE window in which
I was typing the mail. Clicking on Back button or Ctrl+Z or any such thing
was useless in recovering what I was typing.

It would be unbelievable for you to know how much I hated the designers of
Outlook and IE. Just who are those dumbclucks.

 

[Gordon]

This issue is worse than a minor inconvenience of interrupted music
stream. I was typing a long email in a web account when I Alt-Tab'ed
to Outlook, opened a new mail and clicked on a hyper link in it. That
moment of thoughtlessness erased my careful effort of more than an
hour that I had spent in writing that detailed email. Outlook opened
that link in the same IE window in which I was typing the mail.
Clicking on Back button or Ctrl+Z or any such thing was useless in
recovering what I was typing.

It would be unbelievable for you to know how much I hated the
designers of Outlook and IE. Just who are those dumbclucks.

In IE go to Tools-Internet Optons-Advanced. Scroll down and UNCHECK the box
that says "re-use windows for launching shortcuts".
that option has been there since IE5 IIRC........

 

[CMM]

In IE, Tools | Options -> Advanced.... uncheck the "Reuse windows for
launching shortcuts" option.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

In addition to Gordon and CMM also note that Outlook 2003 ALWAYS opens in a
new screen no matter what option is set in IE.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

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message This issue is worse than a minor inconvenience of interrupted music stream.
I
was typing a long email in a web account when I Alt-Tab'ed to Outlook,
opened
a new mail and clicked on a hyper link in it. That moment of thoughtlessness
erased my careful effort of more than an hour that I had spent in writing
that detailed email. Outlook opened that link in the same IE window in which
I was typing the mail. Clicking on Back button or Ctrl+Z or any such thing
was useless in recovering what I was typing.

It would be unbelievable for you to know how much I hated the designers of
Outlook and IE. Just who are those dumbclucks.