duby said:
outlook was default news reader but now its n ot and the new button is
gone
from cutomize toolbars. outlook express has taken over.
Outlook has never been and probably never will be a newsreader. Outlook
does not support NNTP (network news transfer protocol). It calls some
other program to do that which happens to be Outlook Express. There is
a Newshound plug-in to Outlook which can add NNTP support to Outlook but
that isn't Outlook itself supporting NNTP. So why not simply open the
program that gets opened anyway by Outlook when doing newsgroups, which
is Outlook EXPRESS?
Googling on Outlook and news and button will probably turn up a lot of
articles about how to get it back in Outlook as this question gets
repeatedly.
http://www.google.com/search?q=+outlook++"news+button"
But what's the point since all it does is provide a shortcut to
separately opening Outlook Express. If you want a button to click for
newsgroups, just add a shortcut to OE in the Quick Launch toolbar in the
Windows taskbar. If you want OE to open without the mail functionality
(i.e., the same way that Outlook opens OE) then add the /newsonly
parameter on the command call to run Outlook Express).
