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Create your own outlook short cuts on the desktop. By – Syed abbas. About outlook short cut on desktop. What does it mean by creating an outlook shortcut on desktop? Without having opening the Outlook window we can create new e-mail, new notes and new contacts. How to create outlook short cut.
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Create your own outlook short cuts on the desktop By – Syed abbas
About outlook short cut on desktop • What does it mean by creating an outlook shortcut on desktop? • Without having opening the Outlook window we can create new e-mail, new notes and new contacts.
How to create outlook short cut • We can do this by changing running Outlook with a set of different command line switches • Create an outlook shortcut icon on you desktop • Right click on the shortcut icon you will notice the path for outlook in target text box(e.g.“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE” /recycle )
Steps to create outlook short cut • What we want to do now is change the parameter • Delete the /recycle or whatever is after the OUTLOOK.EXE” and replace it with any of the following depending on what you want it to do
Set Parameters /c ipm.note For a new Email Message /c ipm.note/m “address1@domain.com, For a new pre-addressed email
Set Parameters /c ipm.stickynote For a new note /c ipm.contact For a new contact
Set Parameters /c ipm.appointment For a new appointment /c ipm.task For a new task
Out look short cut is ready to work • Now click OK, go ahead and rename your shortcut to something more appropriate. • You can configure lots of command lines switches to do a lot more than just the above-mentioned ones by going to the “http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010031101033.aspx”