Cannot start microsoft office outlook. Cannot open the outlook window

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"Cannot start microsoft office outlook. Cannot open the outlook window"

 Nice error message hey:)!

I tried a pile of the obvious stuff to no avail when I finally found the following forum entry from a guy called Dan Thomas (on the third search page!)

Run outlook.exe /resetnavpane

https://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook&tid=4df24070-b33a-409f-82a5-c18385fd6739&mid=a28f285e-8029-4d8b-9dfa-ca17d4fd897b&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=2

I guess it was obvious that the error would be to do with a navigation pane on the outloook UI - for goodness sakes!

Anyway, thanks Dan - wherever you are!!!