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Rich B - 27 Jan 2006 17:19 GMT

Recently had to reformat my HD, clean installed XP Home SP2 and reinstall
Office XP SP3 with all updates to everything. Whenever I try to create an
appointment when the date or time drop down is clicked, it disappears when I
move the cursor to click on a date or time in the list. I can manually enter
the information, and this does not happen with any other applications.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 30 Jan 2006 06:04 GMT

Have you tried running detect and repair?

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| Recently had to reformat my HD, clean installed XP Home SP2 and
| reinstall Office XP SP3 with all updates to everything. Whenever I
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| Any thoughts?
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Rich B - 30 Jan 2006 08:11 GMT

Milly,
I appreciate your response.

Actually, I did run detect & repair with no solution. About 5 minutes ago,
I was poking around my system. I have Tweak UI installed and was looking at
the mouse settings. The box next to "Activation follows mouse" was checked
and I decided to try unchecking it and that solved the problem.

I didn't look at that before, as I considered the date & time drop downs to
be on the same page as the rest of the Contact, however, I guess Outlook does
not. Strange, that that's the only drop downs that were affected.

Anyway, all is right in the world again, and thanks for your effort.

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Musawwir Spiegel - 31 Jan 2006 07:23 GMT

I posted a similar question to Rich's on the .public.outlook news
group on January 26, and had gotten no response. I was planning on
posting the question on this news group tomorrow. Tonight, I
downloaded the latest headings in this news group and then did a
find/search for "drop." My discovery of your updating of the
situation contained the perfect answer to my problem.

I had recently had to re-install Win XP on my C: drive and then
reinstall all of my apps. I had re-installed the Power Toys,
including Tweak UI, but had not realized that this was why my ability
to use drop-down calendars in the Outlook Calendar had disappeared.
When I unchecked the Activation Follows Mouse box in Tweak UI, my drop
down utility returned to its useful former self.

I would urge Milly Staples or one of the other MVPs to persuade
Microsoft to create a Knowledge Base article on the subject. I had
searched the Knowledge Base for a solution to the problem but never
found one.

Thank you Rich for telling us your solution.

Musawwir Spiegel
musman@aprilfool.info

>Milly,
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>Anyway, all is right in the world again, and thanks for your effort.

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Rich B - 31 Jan 2006 13:51 GMT

Thanks for posting this. I thought I was the only one with this problem, as
I couldn't find any similar posts.

Agree wholeheartedly that there should be somethingin the MS Knowledge Base,
since both items are from MS. While I realize that Powertoys are
unsupported, certainly, they could post known issues.

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jepjr - 14 Feb 2007 22:48 GMT

Rich,

You are a life saver. I have been pulling my hair out over this issue. It is
exactly as you described. I even went so far as to uninstall tweakui. Now
I'll put it back and try to find the mouse focus box. Thanks much for
posting.

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> Milly,
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Rich B - 15 Feb 2007 02:37 GMT

Glad my experience was helpful to others. I possess no expertise in
computers or program nuances, but try to logically (or luckily) solve
problems I run across.

This is an example of the reason that EVERYONE should respond with
solutions or results they've stumbled upon, rather than just thinking, "ok, I
solved my problem" and ignore the folks they turned to for help in the first
place.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 15 Feb 2007 13:18 GMT

It's also why people who install applications like TweakUI need to be aware
that it can cause unintended consequences.

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> Glad my experience was helpful to others. I possess no expertise in
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