Delete Caution Alert

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Don Wells
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Delete Caution Alert

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I am running Office 2007 on a Windows 7 machine.

While deleting a bunch of messages, I foolishly checked the "Do not show me this message again" box on the "Delete Caution" alert message and now cannot determine how to revert to the default state.

Any guidance will be deeply appreciated.
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Don

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Re: Delete Caution Alert

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In Outlook try going to File | Options | Advanced | Other (section). Make sure "Prompt for confirmation before permanently deleting items" is checked.

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In addition to Joe's reply, here is a full transcript of how to control these prompts (or lack thereof), via the registry.
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JoeP wrote:In Outlook try going to File | Options | Advanced | Other (section). Make sure "Prompt for confirmation before permanently deleting items" is checked.

Joe
The Outlook 2007 application window still uses the menu/toolbar interface. The Options dialog is reached through Tools | Options...

The message window that you see when you create or open an e-mail message uses the ribbon interface. To get to the Options dialog from a message, click the Office button, then Outlook Options.
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