Fixing Office Upcoming Appointments gadget to work with Office 2010
I just finished installing Office 2010 on all my home computers, and immediately ran into a “wife acceptance factor” issue: the “Outlook Upcoming Appointments” Sidebar gadget didn’t work:
“Fix it.” Sigh. Fortunately, it wasn’t hard to do. Locate the “C:\Users\<user ID>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\OutlookAppointmentsGadget[1].gadget\en-US\js” folder and in it you’ll see a file called Outlook.vbs. Open it in your favorite text editor and find the two lines that mention Outlook “12” and change them to reference Outlook “14” instead. Change this:
if value = "Outlook.Application.12" then
to:
if value = "Outlook.Application.14" then
and this:
if mid(outlookApplication.Version, 1, 2) <> "12" then
to this:
if mid(outlookApplication.Version, 1, 2) <> "14" then
Save the changes, close the gadget, and open it again. You should then see something that works:
If only all application compatibility issues were that simple…