how do I put a calendar shortcut on desktop?

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TINY - 12 Feb 2005 19:39 GMT

I want to put a shortcut to the calendar on my desktop. I was able to do it
with the Student Edition. I upgraded to 2003 Pro and can't figure it out.
Help please

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 12 Feb 2005 20:36 GMT

Versions do not matter - it is the same process.

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After furious head scratching, TINY asked:

| I want to put a shortcut to the calendar on my desktop. I was able
| to do it with the Student Edition. I upgraded to 2003 Pro and can't
| figure it out. Help please

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jp - 12 Feb 2005 22:53 GMT

I'm not so sure. I once could simply right click and drag a folder to the
desktop and create a shortcut. Somewhere between Office 2003 and XP SP2
upgrades, this functionality was lost. It tries to create a URL
(outlook://...) type link, which outlook balks. Seems like it used to create
.rnk files?

Jack Presley

> Versions do not matter - it is the same process.
>
> | I want to put a shortcut to the calendar on my desktop. I was able
> | to do it with the Student Edition. I upgraded to 2003 Pro and can't
> | figure it out. Help please

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 13 Feb 2005 03:02 GMT

To recreate the shortcut buttons from the old Office Toolbar:

Find the path to Outlook.exe and then append the following, ensuring that
you have a space before the /c:

Create an e-mail message /c ipm.note
Create a post /c ipm.post
Create an appointment /c ipm.appointment
Create a task /c ipm.task
Create a contact /c ipm.contact
Create a journal entry /c ipm.activity
Create a note /c ipm.stickynote

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After furious head scratching, jp asked:

| I'm not so sure. I once could simply right click and drag a folder to
| the desktop and create a shortcut. Somewhere between Office 2003 and
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||| to do it with the Student Edition. I upgraded to 2003 Pro and can't
||| figure it out. Help please

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jp - 15 Feb 2005 04:25 GMT

Unless I'm missing something, your instructions are for shortcuts to standard
forms. We want a shortcut to a folder in Outlook. I created them by dragging
the folder from Outlook to the desktop. Then when I clicked on the shortcut,
Outlook opened to my calendar (or task list, etc.) This doesn't appear to
work anymore.

-jp

> To recreate the shortcut buttons from the old Office Toolbar:
>
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> ||| to do it with the Student Edition. I upgraded to 2003 Pro and can't
> ||| figure it out. Help please

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