Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

I tried running Outlook.exe / resetnavpane because I see it worked for a ton of people - but I got the error message "cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook.  The command line argument is not valid.  Check the switch you are using.

This is almost always due to:

1. you have an older version of Outlook that does not have command line switch.  What version of Outlook you have?
2. you have not put a space between "Outlook.exe" and "/ resetnavpane.

Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

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