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MEG - 03 Mar 2006 15:09 GMT

How do I set up a shortcut on my desktop to a new e-mail with a distribution
list?

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Brian Tillman - 03 Mar 2006 16:26 GMT

> How do I set up a shortcut on my desktop to a new e-mail with a
> distribution list?

Right-click your desktio and choose New>Shortcut. In the "Type the location
of the item" box, enter

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Officexx\Outlook.exe" /c ipm.note /m dlname

where "xx" reflects your version of Outlook. Click Next. Give your
shortcut a name and click Finish.

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Craig S - 05 Mar 2006 18:37 GMT

Brian: I'm butting in hoping it may help MEG. Did you really mean to say "xx"
is version of Outlook? "xx" appears in your string with Office, and
Outlook.exe is in Office 10 for me. I know this: Copy-Paste your string and
put 10 for xx and my Dist List name for dlname in the string and I get
Cannot find file "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office10\Outlook.exe" . The
quotes before C: and after Outlook.exe are to be there, Right? Any other
ideas?

> > How do I set up a shortcut on my desktop to a new e-mail with a
> > distribution list?
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> where "xx" reflects your version of Outlook. Click Next. Give your
> shortcut a name and click Finish.

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Brian Tillman - 05 Mar 2006 20:25 GMT

> Brian: I'm butting in hoping it may help MEG. Did you really mean to
> say "xx" is version of Outlook?

I meant "reflects". "10" does reflect Outlook 2002, as you say, as "11"
indicates Outlook 2003. However, Outlook 2000 (version 9) may not have
anything where "xx" appears.

> "xx" appears in your string with
> Office, and Outlook.exe is in Office 10 for me. I know this:
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> before C: and after Outlook.exe are to be there, Right? Any other
> ideas?

There's no "C" in what I entered, so how are you getting an error message
that mentions "C"? If you want to put the explicit path, use this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Outlook.exe" /c ipm.note /m
dlname

I like to use the environment variable %ProgramFiles% because it's more
general. Some people (like me on one of my PCs) have their Program FIles
folder on a disk other than the C drive and the environment variable will
always be correct no matter where the Program Files folder resides.

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Craig S - 06 Mar 2006 13:10 GMT

> >>Thought I was going Looney! When I Copy-Paste your 1st Path String WITH % into Shortcut Command Line block, the Shortcut app Puts the C: into the Command Line path and then doesn't like, I guess, the %'s being there; So the error msg includes C:.
>Your "explicit path" string WithOut %'s DID Finish the Shortcut set-up; Now I get "Cannot Start Outlook. Command Line argument not valid. Verify the switch you are using."
>My Dist List name is two separate words (Old Geezers). Presume that's OK- Sorry I don't know how to "verify the switch". I'm Win Me, Outlook 2002 (Office XP) which I should have mentioned if Me is an issue. Apologies to MEG to drag this out but maybe it helps us both.

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Craig S - 06 Mar 2006 15:36 GMT

BINGO!! I stumbled onto an Outlooks Tip fact that Path Words with spaces
require quotes; When I put quotes around my 2-word Dist List Name, ("Old
Geezers") the Shortcut Then Worked! MS ought to allow editing to Save space!
Many Thanks, Brian!!

> There's no "C" in what I entered, so how are you getting an error message
> that mentions "C"?
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> >Your "explicit path" string WithOut %'s DID Finish the Shortcut set-up; Now I get "Cannot Start Outlook. Command Line argument not valid. Verify the switch you are using."
> >My Dist List name is two separate words (Old Geezers). Presume that's OK- Sorry I don't know how to "verify the switch". I'm Win Me, Outlook 2002 (Office XP) which I should have mentioned if Me is an issue. Apologies to MEG to drag this out but maybe it helps us both.

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