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April 2005 - Posts

Tip 250: Viewing long folder names

posted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 6:41 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2003 doesn't have a horizontal scroll bar on the Navigation panes, which means if you have long folder names, you'll need to adjust the width of the Navigation pane if you want to view the full name. Instead of changing the Navigation pane width, Read More
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Tip 249: More Antivirus Comments

posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:44 PM by outlooktips
Last week I told you how to disable Norton Antivirus's Office document scanner and a couple of people thought it was unwise and highly dangerous to disable the Office plugin. So how dangerous or unsafe is it to disable your antivirus's document scanning Read More
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Tip 248: Disabling Antivirus Document Scanning

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2005 6:40 PM by outlooktips
It's often annoying to wait for Norton's antivirus scanner to complete when you open a document - it's also a waste of your time if you have it set on 'autoprotect' as that causes it to scan every write to the drive and even documents opened right from Read More
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Tip 247: Printing emails

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:38 PM by outlooktips
A reader asks:"Is there a program that when a e-mail arrives in Outlook that it will print it out? Or one that prints the attachments all of them at once? Instead of opening the e-mail and then one by one opening and print the attachment?" Newer versions Read More
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Tip 246: Using Custom Voting Buttons

posted Friday, April 08, 2005 6:34 PM by outlooktips
Do you use custom voting buttons? While you can't edit the list of choices, you can prevent the need to retype your choices by saving a template or publishing a custom form after entering the choices and completely other information that will remain the Read More
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Tip 245: Outlook 2003's Desktop Alerts Settings

posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:22 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2003 users can change how long the Desktop Alert is displayed. This is the blue rectangle which displays on the screen when new mail arrives and is also known as ""toast"". (It's not to be confused with the New mail alert window which is controlled Read More
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Tip 244: Backup BCM databases

posted Monday, April 04, 2005 2:24 PM by outlooktips
Three times last week I received messages that went something like this: "Help me RESCUE data from CRASHED MS BCM! My computer with BCM installed (and full of my accounts) crashed. I had to pull the data off the drive, then reformat WINXP and go from Read More
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