Controlling How Outlook Opens

Use the following switches to control how you start Outlook, including switches that enable you to disable the Navigation Pane or reading pane. | Team LiB Controlling How Outlook Opens Use the following switches to control how you start Outlook including switches that enable you to disable the Navigation Pane or reading pane. You can also use switches to select a specific profile when Outlook loads disable Outlook s capability to check whether it s the default mail client and disable an automatic mail check. Additional startup switches are discussed in the Diagnostic Switches section including Safe switches and switches used to clean special items such as reminders or rules. AltVBA otmfilename Opens the VBA program specified by otmfilename instead of your file. altvba Autorun macroname Opens Outlook and immediately runs the macro specified in macroname. The macro needs to be in the OTM file Outlook is using. You can use this switch with the AtlVBA switch to automatically run a specific macro. This command runs the SaveAttachment macro stored in the cleanup. otm file. altvba autorun SaveAttachments Designer Starts Outlook without checking to see whether it should be the default email client. Use this switch when Outlook isn t the default mail client and you won t receive the prompt asking whether it should be the default. Explorer Opens the new window in Explorer mode Navigation Pane on . FirstRun Starts Outlook as if it were being run for the first time which creates a new welcome message . Folder Opens a new window in folder mode Navigation Pane off . LaunchTrainingHelp assetid Opens a Help window with the Help topic specified by assetid. This could be used by administrators to point users to a specific help file. The assetid is identified in the HTML help source by a META ID tag. The following command line should open Help to the mail merge topic. LaunchTrainingHelp HP03073411 NoPollMail Starts Outlook without checking mail at startup. NoPreview Starts Outlook with the Reading Pane off and removes the option from the View menu. p .