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Brodie Krause - 29 Oct 2007 17:40 GMT

Okay, here's the deal. I have a user who wants BOTH Outlook and her Calendar to open at login. She was satisfied by putting Outlook in her Startup folder, as well as a shortcut to Outlook with the "/select outlook:calendar" switch on it.

The problem she's having now is that when she presses Alt+Tab to switch between them, their icons are both the Outlook icon. If she goes into Outlook, Right-Clicks Calendar and chooses Open in New Window, the calendar gets the Calendar icon. She wants the Calendar to get the Calendar Icon at Startup!

Any ideas? I already tried changing the icon of the modified Shortcut to the Calendar Icon, no dice.

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dch3 - 30 Oct 2007 01:58 GMT

1) By 'Outlook' do you mean the person's Inbox?

2) If you are familar with HTML or know someone who is, you can create a
folder home page that displays both the Inbox and Calendar on the same page
using the Outlook View Control. Placing the Outlook View Control in a page is
simple, but you will need an intermediate knowledge of HTML. I'm in the
polishing stage of a folder home page that places my Inbox, Calendar, Tasks
and Contacts all onto one page.

Topics to research:
Outlook View Control
(ActiveX control that displays information in an Outlook folder)
Outlook - Folder Home Page
(Ability to designate a web site, HTML or other web document as the home
page
for an Outlook folder or as the exclusive view for a folder. A FHP can
be used
as an alternative to Outlook Today.)
DHTML
(Dynamic HTML - Allows web content on a web page to be dynamically altered
on-the-fly without the use of a server using JavaScript or VBScript.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ is a very good source.)

> Okay, here's the deal. I have a user who wants BOTH Outlook and her Calendar to open at login. She was satisfied by putting Outlook in her Startup folder, as well as a shortcut to Outlook with the "/select outlook:calendar" switch on it.
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> The problem she's having now is that when she presses Alt+Tab to switch between them, their icons are both the Outlook icon. If she goes into Outlook, Right-Clicks Calendar and chooses Open in New Window, the calendar gets the Calendar icon. She wants the Calendar to get the Calendar Icon at Startup!
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> Any ideas? I already tried changing the icon of the modified Shortcut to the Calendar Icon, no dice.

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Brodie Krause - 31 Oct 2007 21:28 GMT

Yeah, sorry for slipping into user-speak. By Outlook, I do mean the Inbox. I'll do some research on the topics you suggested, thanks!

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