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Tip 522: Hotmail and HTTP Support

posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:03 PM by outlooktips
Back in April, I mentioned that HTTP access would be disabled as of June 30 and at that time only the Outlook connector with Outlook or Windows Live Mail client could be used as an offline client for Hotmail, MSN, or Live mail. Due to complaints, Read More
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Tip 521: Printed Calendar Time Scale

posted Monday, June 23, 2008 11:27 PM by outlooktips
If you need to print a daily calendar with a 15 minute time scale, you’ll need to reduce the hours printed - 8am - 5 pm should use 15 min scale.  7am - 7pm uses 30 min. Read More
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Tip 520: Minimize Ribbon

posted Friday, June 20, 2008 11:24 PM by outlooktips
Joe asks: “I’m a new user of Outlook 2007. I was just getting used to the new 'Ribbon' when somehow I turned it off. Can you tell me what I did and how to turn it back on?” Look at the right side of the Quick Access Toolbar (the row of icons top Read More
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Tip 519: "Sending 1 of x"

posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:22 PM by outlooktips
The following question comes up often: "The 'Sending' message dialog comes up although nothing is in the Outbox. It's now progressed sequentially from 'Sending' 1 message to 'Sending 1 of 4'. It takes ages for 'real' messages to be sent." It's a Read More
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Tip 518: WordMail

posted Monday, June 16, 2008 9:58 PM by outlooktips
Office has a feature called "Send to Mail Recipient" which puts the document in the message body, rather than attaching the document to the message. This is often referred to as "word mail" and while it sounds like a cool feature, reality is that few Read More
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Tip 517: Reminder Times

posted Friday, June 13, 2008 8:26 PM by outlooktips
As many users have discovered, setting reminders for all day events using the default times in the reminder selector means they may go off at weird times (like midnight),  which can be a problem if you sync with a PDA.  If you want them to go Read More
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Tip 516: Address Book Sort Order

posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:24 PM by outlooktips
Having problems alphabetizing your address book by last name?  Go to Tools, E-mail accounts, View or change existing directories or address books, Outlook Address Book, Change, to set your sort order.  (In Outlook 2007, you’ll go to Tools, Account Read More
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Tip 515: Folder List Tooltips

posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:23 PM by outlooktips
When the mouse hovers over folder names in the navigation pane or folder list, Outlook pops up the full name in a tooltip. This tool tip often obscures the folder below and provides little useful information for most users. Can it be turned off?  There Read More
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Tip 514: Search and Calendar View

posted Friday, June 06, 2008 8:57 PM by outlooktips
A reader asks: “I conducted a search, looking for an event now I can't get back to the calendar view, all I see are the events that I searched for.” Outlook displays the search result in list format, not in day/week/month view (so you can see them without Read More
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Tip 513: Move Data to Other Fields

posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:03 PM by outlooktips
A user asks: “I'd like to take all the data listed under Home Phone and move it to Primary Phone. Or maybe just rename the Home Phone column as Phone, but that doesn't appear to be possible. I don't see any way to select the entire Home Phone column and Read More
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Tip 512: Yearly Recurrence

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:49 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2007 – with the lasted update installed – now supports multi-year recurrences. This means you won’t need to use 24 months to create appointments which recur every 2 years. Sorry, that is the only change to recurrence patterns. Maybe next time Read More
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Tip 511: Have Replies Sent To

posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:19 PM by outlooktips
Do you need send a message from your account but have replies go to a different address?  You can do this one of two ways: per message (all account types) or for all messages (POP3 or IMAP accounts).  Per message: Look on the Options dialog Read More
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