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November 2009 - Posts

Tip 682: Mail Merge Categories

posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:57 AM by outlooktips
It seems like the words “mail merge from contacts” causes eyes to glaze over and users to freak out. I don’t know why. It’s actually really easy to do. But I get a lot of questions about it, especially at this time of year (holiday letter time).To show Read More
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Tip 681: Office 2010 Beta

posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:01 PM by outlooktips
The public beta is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx You’ll need a live id (passport) and answer a short survey to get to the download page.I highly recommend users not install it on their “production” system. If you Read More
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Tip 680: Select Contacts for Journaling

posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:59 PM by outlooktips
The method most people use to select contacts for automatic journal activities, is to go to Tools, Options, Journal options and manually click each contact to include them in the automatic journal activities.It’s clumsy and slow. The other method in that Read More
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Tip 679: Compressed weekend substitute

posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:57 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user had this to say about the lack of compressed weekends in Outlook 2007: “I am in Month view most of the time. It would make it much easier to distinguish weekdays and weekends in Month view if I could shade weekends in the same manner you Read More
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Tip 678: Keep meeting requests

posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:56 PM by outlooktips
After accepting (or declining) a meeting request, it’s removed from the Inbox and is only on the calendar. If you’d like to keep a copy in the Inbox, go to Tools, Options, Preferences, E-mail Options, Advanced E-mail Options. Uncheck the option to ‘Delete Read More
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Tip 677: Error: Can’t create work file

posted Monday, November 09, 2009 7:47 PM by outlooktips
We’re seeing more complaints that Outlook reports this error: “Outlook could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable.” In many cases, this happens after an upgrade.This error is the result of a corrupted temporary internet cache Read More
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Tip 676: Windows Easy Transfer

posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 6:38 PM by outlooktips
Now that Windows 7 is shipping, we’re starting to see a lot more problems that begin like this:“I used Easy Transfer to move files and settings to my new Windows 7 computer. Outlook isn’t working… “While Windows Easy Transfer (WET) works well for many Read More
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Tip 675: Show dismissed dialog

posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:36 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user asked: “While pasting images to a plain text email, a dialog box will pop up:Microsoft office outlook compatibility checker: some of the features in this document aren't supported by plain text e-mail.Summary<feature> will be lostIt Read More
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Tip 674: Outlook version poll

posted Monday, November 02, 2009 8:41 PM by outlooktips
We have a new poll open with the topic of “Which version of Outlook do you use?Vote for your version at http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072If you regularly use two versions, pick the one you use the most or the one you like better (your Read More
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