Vista - Toolbar -Work Offline Icon

How can you tell from the screen whether you are Online or Offline?

If you select the File menu item you can see if Work Offline is
checked. Also if you place the cursor over the Offline icon when
Online you get a background surround when Online, which is not there
when Offline. Both these methods need action on the part of the user
when I would prefer to be able to tell just by looking at the
screen?


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TIA.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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"Gerry Cornell" <gcjcvis@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OiCd1dfdHHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> How can you tell from the screen whether you are Online or Offline?
>
> If you select the File menu item you can see if Work Offline is checked.
> Also if you place the cursor over the Offline icon when Online you get a
> background surround when Online, which is not there when Offline. Both
> these methods need action on the part of the user when I would prefer to
> be able to tell just by looking at the screen?

You can double click the toolbar icon to change between on or offline.

Don't you have the status bar at the bottom?
Mine show the message count on the left, and "Working Online" on the right.

Gary VanderMolen

"Gerry Cornell" <gcjcvis@nospam.com> wrote in message news:OiCd1dfdHHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> How can you tell from the screen whether you are Online or Offline?
>
> If you select the File menu item you can see if Work Offline is
> checked. Also if you place the cursor over the Offline icon when
> Online you get a background surround when Online, which is not there
> when Offline. Both these methods need action on the part of the user
> when I would prefer to be able to tell just by looking at the
> screen?
>
>
> --
> TIA.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>

When working offline the Newsgroups are grayed out and there is a message in the bottom
status bar the you are "Working Offline" -- same as OE


"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message news:eDjH59gdHHA.4984@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Don't you have the status bar at the bottom?
> Mine show the message count on the left, and "Working Online" on the right.
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjcvis@nospam.com> wrote in message news:OiCd1dfdHHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> How can you tell from the screen whether you are Online or Offline?
>>
>> If you select the File menu item you can see if Work Offline is
>> checked. Also if you place the cursor over the Offline icon when
>> Online you get a background surround when Online, which is not there
>> when Offline. Both these methods need action on the part of the user
>> when I would prefer to be able to tell just by looking at the
>> screen?
>>
>>
>> --
>> TIA.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>

Gary

The status bar at the bottom was not visible. With others being
categoric that it should be there I tried resizing the window and
it's was hidden.


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
news:eDjH59gdHHA.4984@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Don't you have the status bar at the bottom?
> Mine show the message count on the left, and "Working Online" on
> the right.
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjcvis@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:OiCd1dfdHHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> How can you tell from the screen whether you are Online or
>> Offline?
>>
>> If you select the File menu item you can see if Work Offline is
>> checked. Also if you place the cursor over the Offline icon when
>> Online you get a background surround when Online, which is not
>> there when Offline. Both these methods need action on the part of
>> the user when I would prefer to be able to tell just by looking
>> at the screen?
>>
>>
>> --
>> TIA.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Do you have it enabled?
Go to View, Layout.

Gary VanderMolen

"Gerry Cornell" <gcjcvis@nospam.com> wrote in message news:O24LepidHHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Gary
>
> The status bar at the bottom was not visible. With others being
> categoric that it should be there I tried resizing the window and
> it's was hidden.

Gary

The problem was resolved by resizing the Window. Thanks again.


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
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> Do you have it enabled?
> Go to View, Layout.
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjcvis@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:O24LepidHHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Gary
>>
>> The status bar at the bottom was not visible. With others being
>> categoric that it should be there I tried resizing the window and
>> it's was hidden.
>