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February 2009 - Posts

Tip 593: Outlook 2007 Pre-SP2 Update

posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:39 AM by outlooktips
A pre-SP2 update for Outlook 2007, the February Cumulative Update (CU) contains a large set of the fixes that release as part of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 (SP2). Read more about it at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=968009 The Read More
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Tip 592: Calendar Printing Assistant Modifications

posted Monday, February 23, 2009 5:35 PM by outlooktips
As nice as the Calendar Printing Assistant is, many people still want to customize the templates. It’s actually not too hard, once you get the hang of it. I have instructions for some basic mods to get the curious started – you’ll find them at Modify Read More
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Tip 591: QAT shortcuts

posted Monday, February 16, 2009 12:08 AM by outlooktips
You can add frequently used commands to the Quick Access Toolbar by clicking on the down arrow at the end of the QAT and choosing More Commands. While you may think “I don’t need the QAT, the commands I use are on the default ribbon and easy to access”, Read More
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Tip 590: Add Contacts to the Autocomplete cache

posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:07 AM by outlooktips
Do you want to populate your autocomplete list (nickname cache) with the email addresses in your contacts folder? Select all, go to Actions, Create, New message to contact, then close the message once the addresses resolve.   Read More
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Tip 589: Calendar date format

posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:05 AM by outlooktips
A frequent question: When I view the calendar in Week mode it displays the dates, but not the days of the week. Is there an option to show the day? This is controlled by the long date format setting in Control panel, Regional and language options. The Read More
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Tip 588: Misbehaving date picker

posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:02 AM by outlooktips
When you attempt to create an appointment or tasks and the date and time picker won't stay out long enough to pick a date, it’s not a bug in Outlook, its either because you are using the TweakUI power toy's X-mouse style mouse control (or similar utility) Read More
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Tip 587: Request Read Receipts using Rules

posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:56 PM by outlooktips
If you want to automatically request read receipts from some people but not from everyone you send mail to, you can use an ‘after sending’ rule to request receipts only if the message meets the condition of the rule. If you want receipts only from certain Read More
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