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March 2004 - Posts

Tip 115: Calendar Date Formats

posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:17 PM by outlooktips
Daniela asks "Is it possible change outlook today to show dates with weekdays in the calendar section? If so, how?" On Outlook Today, no, not for each day in the list. You can show the date at the top of the page with the weekday and date, since it's Read More
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Tip 114: Redirect Messages

posted Monday, March 29, 2004 4:28 PM by outlooktips
A common request is a way to redirect messages, so that when a message is forwarded, the recipient can reply directly to the original sender. Outlook doesn't support a true redirect and while add-ins exist that do redirects, it takes just a step or two Read More
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Tip 113: Outlook Logging

posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:15 PM by outlooktips
One of Outlook's troubleshooting options is logging send/receive. While it's a great help when you have problems sending and receiving, it should only be enabled when you have problems as it can cause Outlook to crash, especially if you use IMAP accounts. Read More
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Tip 112: Restoring the Office Toolbar

posted Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:16 PM by outlooktips
When you upgrade to Office 2003, the Office toolbar is removed from your computer and Office 2003 doesn't include a newer version. If you use the Office toolbar you can reinstall it. Run setup for the older version of Office and choose a custom install Read More
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Tip 111: More SMTP Servers

posted Monday, March 22, 2004 4:15 PM by outlooktips
Last week I told you how to configure Outlook to use different SMTP servers with each account. Andrew Helsby has another method - he uses "mail" as the SMTP in all accounts and a hosts file to change the IP used by "mail". Andrew uses a batch file to Read More
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Tip 110: LookOut Beta

posted Thursday, March 18, 2004 4:14 PM by outlooktips
Lookout is looking for beta testers. Formerly called Chrome, Lookout is an Outlook plug-in that provides advanced, lightning-fast search capabilities to your mailbox. Search results come back almost instantaneously - well, not quite that fast on my Read More
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Tip 109: Diary Custom Form

posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:13 PM by outlooktips
One of the form options on the New menu is "New Post in the folder", an option which is highly underused. Posts are non-mailable messages which are saved to the currently selected mail folder. Use posts for notes to yourself or to hold snippets of information. Read More
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Tip 108: Increase Font Size

posted Monday, March 15, 2004 4:13 PM by outlooktips
If you use Word as your editor, you can use Ctrl+[ or Ctrl+] to increase or decrease the font size in HTML messages. These shortcuts work to change the font size for both RTF and HTML formatted messages using Word as your editor in all versions of Outlook. Read More
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Tip 107: Outlook 2002 SP3 and Security Warnings

posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:12 PM by outlooktips
Office XP SP3 was released yesterday and it didn't take long to find a problem with Outlook. Because the security level is more inline with Outlook 2003, you may see the "a program is accessing your address book.... " warning when you use older versions Read More
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Tip 106: Office XP/Outlook 2002 SP3

posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:05 PM by outlooktips
Now available - Office XP SP3. SP3 includes all updates included in SP1 and unlike past updates, does not require previous SP's to be installed. For a list of fixes contained in SP3:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=836033To download:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=85af7bfd-6f69-4289-8bd1-eb966bcdfb5e&displaylang=en Read More
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Tip 105: Blocking Additional File Types

posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:04 PM by outlooktips
Now that 'script kiddies' discovered sending virus infected zips gets their work past many antivirus programs, you many want to make it more difficult to open them or block them completely. You can do this by editing the Level1Remove key and adding Read More
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Tip 104: Changing SMTP Servers

posted Thursday, March 04, 2004 4:03 PM by outlooktips
Do you need to use different SMTP servers depending on how you connect to the Internet? Rather than constantly editing the account properties, create a new account using the other SMTP server. While this works well for two SMTP servers, giving you Read More
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Tip 103: QuickIcons

posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:03 PM by outlooktips
Last week I told you about a cool utility for Outlook called Knockout. The same site has another nice utility for anyone who wants shortcuts to Outlook's standard forms on their QuickLaunch bar but doesn't want to create them. It's called QuickIcons Read More
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Tip 102: Find All Related Messages

posted Monday, March 01, 2004 4:02 PM by outlooktips
Do you need to find all messages you sent or received, relating to a conversation? Right click on any message in your message list and chose Find All > Related messages. This creates an Advanced Find searching your Inbox, Sent folder, and Drafts folder Read More
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