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October 2008 - Posts

Tip 560: Daylight Time Change Reminder

posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:00 AM by outlooktips
We’re starting to see complaints about appointment times suddenly being off an hour. When the problem only exists for appointments in late October and early November (and in March), it generally means you don’t have the time zone update installed. Check Read More
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Tip 559: Underlined links in Outlook Today

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:12 PM by outlooktips
Outlook Today uses IE to render the HTML, all of the links in Outlook Today are affected by the way the new version of IE handles styles. IE's default setting is to underline all links if a style is not applied, but IE8 ignores the CSS Outlook Today uses Read More
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Tip 558: Move an IMAP *.PST

posted Monday, October 27, 2008 9:14 PM by outlooktips
While its often a good idea to move a *.PST used by POP3 accounts to an easier to find locations, it’s less useful to move IMAP accounts. You don’t need to back it up, since its just a copy of you mailbox, which is stored on the IMAP server. If you need Read More
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Tip 557: IMAP, Junk mail, and Read Receipts

posted Friday, October 24, 2008 12:08 PM by outlooktips
Spam occasionally includes request read receipts. In some cases this is so they can check for valid email addresses but most of the time it’s not intentional or the spammer just wants to be doubly annoying since the sender’s address is invalid and the Read More
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Tip 556: Change Default Font

posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:07 PM by outlooktips
You can change the default font and font color used by going to Tools, Options, Mail Format, Stationery and Fonts. This option is available in all versions of Outlook and with both the Outlook editor and Word editor, however the menu may vary in older Read More
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Tip 555: Weather iCalendars

posted Monday, October 20, 2008 12:17 AM by outlooktips
Would you like weather forecasts on your calendar? There is an add-in that can put weather forecasts on the calendar. Infuser works in all versions of Outlook (and Lotus Notes). Go to http://www.infuzer.com/IDC/features/index.jsp to learn more and download Read More
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Tip 554: Document Image Writer

posted Friday, October 17, 2008 11:15 PM by outlooktips
If you upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 you may have noticed the Microsoft Document Image Writer feature is not installed by default when you run Office 2007 setup. In order to open and view or print the MDI files with Office 2007 installed, try Read More
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Tip 553: Categories correction

posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:22 AM by outlooktips
In my last tip a long two weeks ago, I was distracted by my toddler granddaughter and didn’t double check the tip before sending it. After that I decided to take a break from writing tips until Maddie went back to her mom. In that tip I said you could Read More
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Tip 552: Outlook 2007 Categories

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:21 AM by outlooktips
Outlook 2007’s category picker leaves a lot to be desired for people who make heavy use of categories and prefer typing categories in the category field text box. Messages have a category text box in Message options. Right click on the message in the Read More
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