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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / August 2004New Mail Notification - How to make it stay on screen till clicked OK Outlook 2003?
Recently I upgraded one of my clients from Outlook XP to 2003. Up to the XP version there was a New Mail Notifcation option that would open a dialogue box saying "You have New Mail" and you had to click OK to get rid of it. Under 2003 it brings up the nice transparent notifications, and you can change how long they stay on screen upto about 30 seconds. But my clients are frequently away from their desks and on their return now have to go to Outlook to check if mail has arrived in their absence. Does anyone know if there is a way of getting the New Mail notification from XP back again?? Or any ideas about workaround to let people know they have new mail without having to go to Outlook 2003? Thanks in advance Simon What you can do is go to Tools>Options>Preferences>Email Options>Advanced Email Options and check the box that says show an envelope icon in the notification area. This will provide an envelope icon in the system tray, and if they see one of those then they have new mail. The bad thing is that dependent on the number of icons in the system tray, they may not see the envelope if some icons are hidden. Pretty easy to fix though...just have them close out of Outlook and reopen it. This will make Outlook the most recent icon in the system tray and make that notification visible. Hope that this helps. Joseph Rapoport, MCP >-----Original Message----- >Recently I upgraded one of my clients from Outlook XP to 2003. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >. Many thanks for this, I have tried this myself, and can see how it can work, but it is not as blindingly obvious as the dialogue box you used to get in earlier versionsof outlook!! Microsoft seem to have taken a small step backwards here by not at least giving users the option of this method of notification. Thanks again Simon > What you can do is go to Tools>Options>Preferences>Email > Options>Advanced Email Options and check the box that says [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > > >. |
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