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 The
Outlook Today feature in Microsoft Outlook 98 and later versions is a
Web-like view of your upcoming appointments and current tasks, plus
the status of key e-mail folders. You can also use it to search for
someone in your Contacts folder.What's really nice about Outlook Today is the way it organizes
all this information in one location, with just enough color coding
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Setup | Usage
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Setup
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Outlook Today is
included in Outlook 98 and later versions. There is no
special setup procedure.
To display Outlook Today when you start Outlook:
- Choose Tools | Options | Advanced Options.
- Under Startup in this folder, choose Outlook Today.
To change various display options:
- Click Outlook Today in the Outlook Bar
- On the Outlook Today page, click Options.
To point Outlook Today in Outlook 2000 to a specific web page:
- Make a backup of your system registry.
- Run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
- Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Today
subkey.
- Create a new STRING value, named URL.
- For the value of URL, enter the address of the web page you
want to view when you click Outlook Today.
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Usage
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To
see more information about any appointment, task or mail folder:
Click that item.
To search in your Contacts folder:
Type a name in the Find a Contact box, then
click go. Outlook searches the Full Name field
for the name you entered.
To mark a task as completed:
Click the checkbox next to it.
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Customization
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The
Outlook Today page can be customized. Simple customization through the
user interface:
OL2002
Outlook Today Customization Options
Learn
How to Customize Outlook Today (Outlook 2000)
OL2000
(CW) Custom Outlook Today Page Does Not Synch for Offline Use
OL2000 New Outlook Today Customization Options
Editing
Outlook Today -- How to use the Windows registry to modify
the settings for Outlook Today if the Customize Outlook Today
button no longer functions
Advanced customization requiring HTML and other programming
skills:
Customizing MS Outlook 98 Features -- Chapter 4 in the Outlook
98 Deployment Kit; explains how to replace the HTML in the
resource .dll
Customizing Outlook Today -- by using the HTML for the
built-in page as the basis for a new page
Sample
Outlook Today pages:
Replace MSNBC's Outlook Today page
Digital Dashboard -- more
ways to customize Outlook Today
Outlook today (cabarfeidh.com)
Outlook Today - more coding
(cabarfeidh.com)
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Limitations
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Despite
what some of the Outlook 98 literature at microsoft.com said, you
cannot use Outlook Today with the Internet Explorer 4.0 Active
Desktop.
Without customization, Outlook Today cannot display a list
of the items in your Inbox, Outbox or Drafts folder -- only the number
of items awaiting action. Only information from your main Calendar,
Tasks, Inbox, Drafts and Outbox folders is displayed. You cannot add
links to other folders or to Web pages to Outlook Today (see note on
customization above).
You can search for contacts only in your main Contacts folder.
In Outlook 98:
Tasks are sorted with the items you added most recently at the
top. You cannot change this sort order (see note on
customization above).
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Known Problems
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Outlook 2002
OL2002 Customized Outlook Today Missing in Outlook 2002
OL2002- Outlook Today Displays the Incorrect Date for Tasks
OL2002- The Outlook Today Page Does Not Reset to the Standard Style
When You Restore It to the Default Setting
OL2002- Outlook Today Style Reverts to Original When You Switch Back
to Outlook Today
OL2002 You Cannot
Use the Outlook Databinding Control to View Another User's Outlook
Folder -- post-SP2 hotfix available
Outlook 2000
OL2000 Outlook Today Does Not Displays Customized Message Folders
OL2000 Outlook Today is Garbled After You Apply the Office SR-1
OL2000 How to
Restore the Default Outlook Today Page
OL2000
You Cannot Customize Outlook Today After You Install Critical Update
813489 for Internet Explorer.
Outlook
98
If you are using the Simple List task filter and check off a
task as completed, Outlook needs to refilter and display the
entire task list. This can take rather a lot of time and is
especially annoying if you want to check off yet another item.
Workaround: If you need to mark more than one task as completed,
use the Calendar or Tasks, not Outlook Today. Or use the Today's
Tasks filter, not Simple List.
If
you have applied any themed skins to Windows (via Window Blinds,
etc.), when attempting to customize the Outlook Today folder view in
Outlook 2002, it is necessary to turn off skins (reset to standard
Windows theme) before doing so. Otherwise, the dialog box that
allows you to select the folders you would like to view on the Today
page will not be viewable. (Thanks to Christopher Paris for this
tip.)
Also see:
OL98 Outlook Today Stops Responding When You Click a Folder
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More Information
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Outlook
98: New Features for Developers (shows examples of
customized Outlook Today pages, but gives no how-to details)
ZDNet
Outlook 98 SuperGuide: Outlook Today (by Peter Deegan of
Woody's Office Watch)
DeskLook
-- Tool to display Outlook data on your Windows desktop --
appointments, messages, and tasks, using the same settings as
Outlook Today.
Information on editing the registry to make changes to Outlook Today
DigidashLive
Displaying Latest Code Project Articles in Outlook Today
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