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Tip 673: Quick Click Category Hotfix

posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:46 PM by outlooktips
A few weeks ago I mentioned a work around for the Quick Click category bug, where the category is not saved when Outlook 2007 closes. It (and a long list of other bugs) is fixed in a new hotfix:Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package  Read More
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Tip 672: OWA, .docx, & .zip

posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:45 PM by outlooktips
“When an email with a docx attachment is opened in Outlook, all is fine. When it is opened with OWA, the user is asked to save the document before they open. When this is done, the default extension is a .ZIP    If you change it to .docx Read More
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Tip 671: Hide Next and Last Buttons

posted Monday, October 26, 2009 8:50 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2007 (and 2010) adds Next and Last buttons in the Reading pane and opened messages to make it easier to jump between the quoted messages. Not everyone likes this feature and if you are one of these people, you can disable message header shading. Read More
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Tip 670: Reply with attachment

posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:48 PM by outlooktips
Earlier this week, the question was about how to send a message to a group of people but only send the attachment to the recipients in the To line. This brings up a related question: How can I easily send to the original sender an Office document that Read More
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Tip 669: CC without attachments?

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:47 PM by outlooktips
We get often get questions from users who would like to have the option to send attachments only to the To-list, with the CC and BCC recipients just getting the message without the attachment. Unfortunately Outlook doesn’t offer such an option. If you Read More
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Tip 668: Background images

posted Monday, October 19, 2009 8:44 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user asked how to add a background image to a new appointment. Outlook doesn’t have a command to do this directly, but it is possible using one of two methods. 1. Create a message with a background image, Select All and paste into the appointment Read More
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Tip 667: Quick Click Category Bug

posted Monday, October 12, 2009 8:45 PM by outlooktips
There is a bug in Outlook 2007 where it forgets the quick click category at startup. Until this bug is fixed in a future update, see see http://www.vboffice.net/index.html?pub=20&lang=en for a solution. Read More
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Tip 666: Combine Calendars

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:42 PM by outlooktips
A surprising number of people ask how to combine multiple calendars into one. It’s actually easy – just drag and drop appointments from one to the other, but not from the Day/Week/Month view. That view just complicates things. Switch to a table (list) Read More
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Tip 665: Exclude Dictionary

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:42 PM by outlooktips
Today's tip is a repeat – it last ran about 5 years ago and two recent questions about excluding words from the spell checker tells me it’s long past time to remind people about this little known feature. Many people are unaware that the Office spell-check Read More
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Tip 664: Lock views

posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:50 PM by outlooktips
It’s very easy to accidently change a customized view and a popular request is the ability to lock the views to prevent this. Unfortunately locking views is not possible. The best way to protect your view is by making a copy. When the copy gets messed Read More
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Tip 663: Error in the To-Do Bar

posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:46 AM by outlooktips
We’re getting a lot of reports of errors in the To-do Bar’s tasks list: "The operation failed. An object could not be found." The fix is to close Outlook and restart it using the /resettodobar switch. At Start menu, Run (Windows Key + R) type Read More
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