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Working with Office 2007 from the Command Line

Working with Office 2007 from the Command Line

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A pretty esoteric topic, but you never know when some of these features may come in handy. I have picked out some that I think are most useful, but there are plenty more listed in the documentation (You read the documentation, right?)

Outlook 2007

/cleancategories

Deletes any custom category names that you have created. Restores categories to the default names.

/cleanclientrules

Starts Outlook and deletes client-based rules.

/cleanfreebusy

Clears and regenerates free/busy information. This switch can be used only when you are able to connect to the server running Exchange.

/nocustomize

Starts Outlook without loading outcmd.dat (customized toolbars).

/sniff

Starts Outlook, forces a detection of new meeting requests in the Inbox, and then adds them to the calendar.

Word 2007

/a

Starts Word and prevents add-ins  and global templates (including the Normal template) from being loaded automatically. The /a switch also locks the setting files.

/cleanclientrules

Starts Word and opens an existing XML document based on the specified XSLT

OneNote 2007

/paste Pastes the contents of the Clipboard.
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