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Outlook Web Exchange: hiding navigation pane entries

Nov 8, 2005 12:00PM PST

In Outlook Web Exchange (like Outlook but this is purely web based), is there any way to hide or delete the entries in the Navigation Pane to the left?

I'd like to delete/hide only the following as I never touch them:
Calendar, Contacts, Journal, Notes, Tasks

The help files only mention clicking on the plus/minus boxes to expand/collapse select items.

suggestions appreciated. Thanks

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(NT) (NT) I'm afraid it isn't customizable.
Nov 8, 2005 6:57PM PST
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(NT) (NT) <grumble>. Thanks anyways
Nov 8, 2005 9:21PM PST
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Do you have a programming god on staff?
Nov 8, 2005 9:54PM PST

It is possible to write a filter, but I don't offer such to you. I can write that all things are possible but at the cost of a programming god (they rank just above guru). You usually have to care and feed them with internet connections, trips to Microsoft Seminars and MSDN subscriptions and an expense account for phone calls to mother.

Sorry, no click here solution is known.

Bob

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Re: Outlook Web Exchange
Nov 8, 2005 11:40PM PST

Outlook Web Exchange is part of Exchange Server 2003, enabling me to use the company Exchange server from home via the web (https://webmail.myemployer.com).
Then you have to logon in the web-application. In IE you can choose between advanced mode (a very good approximation of local Outlook) and basic mode (a much simpler user interface). In Firefox there's no such choice, and you only get the basic mode. So I assume it's some ActiveX application (in this case a very good reason to keep IE up and running).

I don't think anybody outside Microsoft could change this. You simply don't have the server-side source nor that of the downloaded ActiveX component. And, even if we had, I wouldn't advise anybody to change it.


Kees

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If we proxy the connection.
Nov 9, 2005 12:08AM PST

At the office we use a variety of web and webmail filters. I can see a method of 'filtering' the html page content to achieve the effect asked for.

This will make sense to programmers but as you note, may not be an option as no control panel exists for the rest of us.

Bob