>>>>Clearly I'm the most interface-challenged person on the planet... you should see what people had to explicitly tell me when it came to using the company's web-based CRM!!!
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>>>>Anyway, when I'm done with UT I like to log out, which in the old way meant simply closing IE.
>>>>How do I log out using IE7 while keeping my Tab so that I can log in again conveniently???
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>>>There is a logout option on the top of the main page on the upper right part.
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>>As I said... call me challenged...
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>>I assume "main page" means the 'normal' page that I would be using to see messages. If so, I don't see any option.
>>If not, how do I access the page you mention?
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>>thanks
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>The main page is the login page. There is an option to log out. If you bring up that page - either through links or by putting the 'home' button on your screen through settings, you will be logged out. You'll then have to close that main screen, and then you'll still have to close the message screen. Or, I suppose that you could, at that point, click your browser's 'home' button.

Well I can't seem to make that work... keeping in mind that my UI intuitiveness is near 0.
I can select a 'Link" (UT dropdown in 'dashboard') for "Universal Thread", which turns out to be the 'main page' with the "Logout" on it BUT it will not open in the same tab regardless of whichever right-click selection I make on it.
Clicking "Logout" on that page does appear to log me out of the UT but my screen (the one under the IE7 tab that I work from) stays exactly as it was. It is only if I click on something that I get an error message saying it doesn't know who I am and maybe my security settings are to blame.
I want it to let me log out and put my screen back to it's 'startup' page (the "Main Page", it seems to be called).
It happens that I currently have UT set as "Home", so at this time I can use that to get the desired result. But I'll lose that if I change my "Home" to something else.

It looks like a new "logout" button on the UT regular working page, that brings up the "Main page" again when clicked, is what is needed to accomplish the desired effect.

OBJECTIVE: To keep my IE7 tab 'alive' for UT (to log in again easily) and still be able to log out of UT. That is: Start IE7 and all my tabs get 'opened'. Then click the UT tab and log in to UT. Then log out of UT. Later, switch back to the UT tab and log in again. Seems pretty normal to me.

cheers