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June 2004 - Posts

Tip 151: Mouse Scrolling

posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:51 PM by outlooktips
After getting a new mouse, using a different computer, or watching someone else work, you may notice their mouse has different scroll behavior in Outlook than yours. This is most often because one of the mice is from Logitech. For some reason, the Logitech Read More
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Tip 150: Note Field Fonts

posted Monday, June 28, 2004 4:50 PM by outlooktips
Do you want to change the font in the Notes field in Outlook forms? It's the same font used in plain text messages. Look for the compose plain text font setting in Tools, Options, Mail Format, Fonts. Read More
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Tip 149: Deferred Delivery

posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:50 PM by outlooktips
Outlook has two options for deferring delivery - setting a rule to hold the mail for xx minutes and selecting a date and time for delivery in the options dialog of a message. Using the rule to defer delivery is especially helpful for Exchange server Read More
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Tip 148: Tracking E-mail?

posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:49 PM by outlooktips
From a reader: "Is there any way in Outlook, besides the tracking feature, to see how many people opened an email? In Groupwise we had a feature in the Sent Items folder where we could click on properties and see:How many people the email was sent Read More
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Tip 147: Autocomplete Cache

posted Monday, June 21, 2004 4:49 PM by outlooktips
The autocomplete e-mail cache used by Outlook 2002/2003 is stored in a file with the extension *.nk2. Microsoft hasn't released an editor for the cache file, but a 3rd party cache viewer called Ingressor (formerly OWTLOOK) is available from http://www.ingressor.com/ingressor_products.htm Read More
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Tip 146: Exclude Dictionary

posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:48 PM by outlooktips
Today's tip is a general Office tip. Many people are unaware that the Office spell-check offers an "exclude dictionary" you can use when the dictionary contains words that you want to be flagged as misspelled. You may have a habit of mistyping a word, Read More
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Tip 145: Attachment Field

posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:47 PM by outlooktips
When you add an attachment to an e-mail, it's displayed in the Attachment field (under the Subject field in newer versions, at the bottom of the window in older versions) if the message is plain text or HTML. When the message format is Rich Text (RTF) Read More
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Tip 144: Microsoft Online Communities

posted Monday, June 14, 2004 4:46 PM by outlooktips
Microsoft recently updated their web interface to the MS News newsgroups, adding new features, including the ability to mark posts that answered the question and marking posts as Helpful. If you're looking for help with a problem, it's easy to find answered Read More
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Tip 143: Choosing Outlook Editor on the Fly

posted Friday, June 11, 2004 4:46 PM by outlooktips
Occasionally you may need to use Outlook's editor when you normally use Word, such as to create an Outlook template. You can go to Tools, Options, Mail format and enable or disable Word as your editor or use the Actions menu (when in any mail folder) Read More
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Tip 142: Importing and Exporting

posted Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:45 PM by outlooktips
Importing and Exporting has a time and place--and that time and place is not when you are setting up a new computer and need to move your Outlook data from the old computer. Locate the *.pst on the old computer, move it to the new computer and connect Read More
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Tip 141: Outlook Today and Folder Homepages

posted Monday, June 07, 2004 4:44 PM by outlooktips
Outlook Today is a folder homepage to the root folder of your mailbox. If you accidentally (or purposely) move messages to this folder, use Find or Advanced Find to locate them or turn off the folder homepage by right clicking on the folder name, choosing Read More
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Tip 140: Read as Plain Text

posted Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:43 PM by outlooktips
If you don't like receiving HTML formatted messages, you can easily force them to plain text if you use Outlook 2002-SP1 or later. In older versions of Outlook, you need to use VBA to convert messages to plain text. In Outlook 2003, go to Tools, Options, Read More
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Tip 139: Applying a View to All Folders

posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:43 PM by outlooktips
Today's Question:"I can create a custom view, but can't find a way to apply it to all folders other than on a one-by-one basis. Is there a way to apply the view to all folders at one time?" Unfortunately you can't apply new views to a group of folders. Read More
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