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Tip 409: Share your experience with Outlook's Internet mail services

posted Friday, March 30, 2007 5:43 PM by outlooktips
Do you use Outlook with a POP3 or IMAP account? Share your "Internet mail experience" with the man in charge of that part of Outlook. It just might help to make it better in the next version. :) http://blogs.msdn.com/rgregg/archive/2007/03/17/outlook-and-internet-mail-support.asp Read More
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Tip 408: PDF Preview Handler for Outlook 2007 (and Vista)

posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:47 PM by outlooktips
Using Outlook 2007 or Vista and wish you could preview PDF's like you can Word and Excel documents? Now you can. Adobe PDF viewer for Outlook 2007's reading pane and Vista's Windows Explorer(link no longer available - however, since newer versions of Read More
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Tip 407: Spell Check the Subject Line

posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:18 AM by outlooktips
If you use Outlook with Word as the editor and use Word's spell check as you type option, you've probably noticed the subject is not spellchecked as you type. In order to spell check the subject automatically, you need to enable the option to Check spelling Read More
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Tip 406: Recurring Meeting Requests

posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:28 PM by outlooktips
Do you have a problem where all your meeting requesting turn into recurring meetings? Bet you have a new Dell with Media Direct installed. They include an Outlook add-in so you can see your appointments when the computer is turned off. As cool as this Read More
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Tip 405: Office 2007 Free Support

posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:32 PM by outlooktips
If there is a feature in Outlook 2007 that doesn't work (or doesn't work as expected), or was in older versions and is missing from Outlook 2007, you have 90 days to make yourself heard by filing a support incident. This is the best way to let Microsoft Read More
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Tip 404: Printing Workaround in Outlook 2007

posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:08 AM by outlooktips
Printing in Outlook 2007 sucks. But if the message is in HTML format, not all is lost. Open the message, click Other Actions button and choose View in Browser. Now you can print the message using the browser's much better print options, such as controlling Read More
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Tip 403: 'Word is Unavailable' Error

posted Monday, March 12, 2007 12:35 PM by outlooktips
Are you using Word as your e-mail editor and get a message that says something like this: "Word is unavailable, not installed, or is not the same version as Outlook... An OLE registration error occurred.  The program is not correctly installed. Run Read More
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Tip 402: Using BCC

posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:42 PM by outlooktips
A question from a mailing list: "Is it possible, using Outlook, to create a group(called All) of "send to" email addresses and have the header arrive at each location looking like this: From: OutlookTips [mailto:tips@outlook-tips.net]Sent: Tuesday, Read More
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Tip 401: Time and Date Shortcuts

posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:46 PM by outlooktips
Yesterday was tip # 400. While most of these 400 tips are unique, there are quite a few repeats, either because the question keeps coming up or because it's one of my favorite features and a lot of people still don't know about it. Tips 4 and 5, along Read More
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Tip 400: Outlook 2007 isn't Installed

posted Monday, March 05, 2007 11:34 AM by outlooktips
A very common complaint after install Office 2007 goes something like this: 'I am currently using Outlook 2002 as part of Office XP. Installed Office 2007 Standard which includes Outlook 2007, but it won't install.  Setup says Outlook as "not available". Read More
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Tip 399: Outlook Printing

posted Friday, March 02, 2007 8:00 AM by outlooktips
As mentioned in Wednesday's tip, print preview doesn't work for HTML messages. (I neglected to mention the question specifically mentioned Outlook 2003.) Anyone who likes using print preview will be happy to know it works in Outlook 2007. This is because Read More
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Tip 398: IE7 Print Fix

posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:49 PM by outlooktips
Serves me right for writing some tips ahead and sending them out weeks later... there is a fix for the IE7 print error reported in yesterday's tip as several readers reminded me. At least now I know people actually read my tips. :) If you are one of Read More
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