#Switch calendar launchbar how to#

Here’s a simple way to create a customised shortcut regardless of which version of Outlook you use:ġ. Click Next and name your shortcut something like Outlook Calendar, then click Finish. Note the quotation marks and the spaces around /select.ģ. “C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOFFICE12OUTLOOK.EXE” /select outlook:calendar In the Type The Location Of The Item box, type:

Right-click in an empty spot on the desktop and choose New -> Shortcut.Ģ.

#Switch calendar launchbar how to#

If you’re using Office 2007 installed in the default folders, here’s how to create such a shortcut from scratch:ġ. If you’d like to be able to open the Outlook calendar in one window and the Inbox in another, create a separate Outlook shortcut using the /select outlook:calendar switch. You’ll see the command line displayed in the Target box on the Shortcut tab. To discover which command line is used to run your copy of Outlook right-click the Outlook shortcut on your desktop or in your Quick Launch bar (if you have one) and choose Properties from the pop-up menu. If you’re running Outlook 2003, the OFFICE12 in the command-line above will be replaced with OFFICE11. That is, if you already have a copy of Outlook open, the switch tells Outlook not to bother opening another one to use the open one instead. The recycle switch tells Outlook to start up in an existing Outlook window if one is available. The /recycle at the end of that line is a switch.

“C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOFFICE12OUTLOOK.EXE” /recycle The default command-line looks something like this: Outlook comes with a collection of command-line switches which determine how the program starts. This is easy to do by using a command-line switch to run Outlook. What if you’d like it to display your calendar instead? Or, perhaps you’d find it handy to open two Outlook windows, one showing your Inbox and the other your calendar. By default, Outlook displays either your Inbox or the Outlook Today page when you open it.