The Standard Toolbar is out of Control

[mbowling]

Today I noticed that there was a Custom task button that was grayed ou
on the standard toolbar. I thought this was strange because I have bee
using Outlook 2007 tasks from ON 2007 without any problems. I clicked o
Add or Remove Buttons > Standard and there was a greyed out Custo
buttom and an enabled Task button. I clicked on the Task button whic
gave me an enabled Task button and a disabled Custom button on th
toolbar. But now each time I turn on a new Task button and then clos
and open ON the enabled Task button is replaced by a disabled Custo
button. I have repeated this several times and now have four disable
Custom buttons and one enabled Task button on the toolbar

The only recent configurarion change I can recall is installing th
Media Fine Tuner powertoy a couple days ago

What should I do

 

[Jimdoria]

Today I noticed that there was a Custom task button that was grayed out
on the standard toolbar. I thought this was strange because I have been
using Outlook 2007 tasks from ON 2007 without any problems. I clicked on
Add or Remove Buttons > Standard and there was a greyed out Custom
buttom and an enabled Task button. I clicked on the Task button which
gave me an enabled Task button and a disabled Custom button on the
toolbar. But now each time I turn on a new Task button and then close
and open ON the enabled Task button is replaced by a disabled Custom
button. I have repeated this several times and now have four disabled
Custom buttons and one enabled Task button on the toolbar.

The only recent configurarion change I can recall is installing the
Media Fine Tuner powertoy a couple days ago.

What should I do?

I encountered the same problem today. Thanks to your message, I
figured out how to fix it! (I think...)
1. Add/Remove buttons -> Standard. Select the Task button. Now you
will have an enabled Task button and a disabled Custom button.
2. Hold down the ALT key on the keyboard and drag the disabled Custom
button off of the toolbars until you see a small X in a box next to
the drag cursor. Drop the button and it will be removed from the
toolbar.
3. Immediately close OneNote and re-open it. This made the changes
"stick" for me.

Intersting how you can't use one workflow to solve this - neither the
"Add Remove buttons" menu nor the "Customize Toolbar" method (which is
what the ALT-drag is a shortcut for) is enough by itself to solve this
problem, but together they seem to do the trick.

 

[Mike]

Thanks for the suggestion Jim. This does work to remove the disabled Custom
buttons and add the Task button for the current session. However, when I
close and then open OneNote the enabled Task button is replaced by a disabled
Custom button.

At least I was able to remove those four disabled Custom buttons. I will
leave the Task button off of the toolbar for now. I can still create a task
in OneNote by using Insert > Outlook Task.

Maybe one of the Microsoft folks will see this and be able to help.