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Tip 636: Password Protect Folders

posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:50 PM by outlooktips
A subscriber wanted to know if there was a way to password protect the file folders in folder list. No. You can password the pst file but not folders within a pst. If you do use a password on the pst, you need to enter when you open Outlook and the Read More
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Tip 635: Automatically Switch Signatures

posted Monday, June 29, 2009 10:38 PM by outlooktips
We’ve had a few people complain that Outlook’s signature switching feature broken so I figured it was time for a refresher course on how it works. If you are using Outlook 2003 with Word as your editor or Outlook 2007 and have multiple accounts, you Read More
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Tip 634: Let’s Really Fix Outlook

posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:23 PM by outlooktips
The Email Standards Project, backed by CampaignMonitor and other email-marketers, is trying to use Twitter to convince Microsoft to change how Outlook renders HTML. Outlook's broken - Let's fix it http://fixoutlook.org/   "It's not about Read More
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Tip 633: Tasks, Reminders & Due dates

posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:18 PM by outlooktips
Recent updates to Outlook 2007 changed the behavior of tasks in the reminder window. In the past, reminders that fired at 10 AM showed due at 10 AM in the reminder window and an hour overdue at 11 AM. Now, the reminder window shows the tasks due at Read More
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Tip 632: Default Tasks Due Date

posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:22 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user had this question: “Can I set the default due date for tasks in Outlook 2007 to "None". Most of the tasks I create (using the To-Do Bar’s Type a Task field) do not require a due date. The default seems to be "Today".” None is the default Read More
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Tip 631: Contact Printing Bug

posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:45 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2007 SP2 has a Contacts printing bug – if you try to print a selection of Contacts in any of the Card views, Outlook cashes.  Until a fix is released, either print using a table view or copy the selection to a new folder and print All items. Read More
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Tip 630: Cancel Assigned Tasks

posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:59 AM by outlooktips
A reader wanted to know how to cancel a task assigned to someone so that she could reassign to it someone else. While you can’t recall the task, as long as you have a copy on your task list you can create an unassigned copy and assign the copy to someone Read More
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Tip 629: 'cancelled due to restrictions'

posted Monday, June 15, 2009 10:58 AM by outlooktips
We’re seeing more than the usual number of reports of “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer" errors when clicking hyperlinks in Outlook. This is not an Outlook error – it’s caused by settings in Internet Explorer. Read More
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Tip 628: Show Start and End times

posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:54 AM by outlooktips
A reader asks: “I use Outlook 2003 and want my appointments to display the Start and End time of each appt, next to the title of each appointment, while I am in Work Week view. Outlook does what I want it to if I create an appointment that starts/ends Read More
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Tip 627: More on Calendar Shortcuts

posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:37 AM by outlooktips
Before I get into today’s tip, a reminder – there is a spam making the rounds with the subject “Outlook Setup Notification” – this is a phishing attempt to get your email account information. Don’t fall for it. :) To clarify yesterday’s tip:“You can Read More
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Tip 626: Calendar tips

posted Monday, June 01, 2009 8:34 AM by outlooktips
One of my favorite Calendar tricks is viewing just 2 or 3 weeks so I can see more appointments in each date cell. To do this, select 2 or more weeks in the navigation calendar. (See http://www.slipstick.com/Tutorials/2wk_cal/2wk_cal.htm if you need to Read More
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