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Tip 714: Social Connector for Outlook 2003/2007 (Beta)

posted Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:48 AM by outlooktips
Earlier today, Microsoft released a social connector for Outlook 2003/2007. This adds a “people pane” to the bottom of the reading pane and displays email, attachments, and meetings associated with the sender of the current message (or the people it was Read More
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Tip 713: Save as HTML folder

posted Monday, February 15, 2010 9:42 AM by outlooktips
Anyone who saves email in HTML format knows Outlook creates a folder containing “junk files” (in their opinion). The folder can’t be deleted – it’s linked to the HTML file and breaking the link, while possible, takes several steps. Although you can’t Read More
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Tip 712: Outlook 2010's Large Message Size Fix

posted Friday, February 12, 2010 6:31 PM by outlooktips
As many beta users discovered, Outlook 2010 sometimes creates huge messages. This is a bug and is usually only a problem when using bulleted and numbered lists. It’s fixed in later builds. The good news: Public beta users won’t have to wait for the Read More
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Tip 711: Esc to close

posted Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:12 PM by outlooktips
A few people have complained about the Save and Close button being so close to the Delete button that they accidently delete appointments and contacts.  The solution: use the Ctrl+S to save and Esc key to close.  Or just use Esc and answer Read More
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Tip 710: Outlook and date formatting

posted Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:24 PM by outlooktips
I received this complaint yesterday: “The biggest issue I have with Outlook is that the meeting requests don't show the DAY!  What stupidity.  Every single meeting request I get - I have to click on the calendar button to see what day of the Read More
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Tip 709: Appointments in the To-do bar

posted Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:17 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user has this question: “ I can't figure out why my appointments that I have scheduled do not show up in the To-Do-Bar.  I have 2 months selected in the View options for the To-Do-Bar but I’m not seeing the appointments.”  The number Read More
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Tip 708: Printing Calendars and Notes

posted Friday, February 05, 2010 7:56 PM by outlooktips
Although printing calendars is not “green” and defeats the purpose of having an electronic calendar, there are times when we need to print a calendar.  One thing that confounds many users is choosing a print format that include a notes section – Read More
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Tip 707: Outlook Update Spam

posted Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:34 PM by outlooktips
This tip should be common sense, but I’ll take this opportunity to remind users that Microsoft does not send out updates by email – if you aren’t using automatic updates, you need to go to Microsoft Update to check for updates. I highly recommend using Read More
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Tip 706: Disappearing Email

posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:28 PM by outlooktips
“After I read the email it is gone......looked everywhere....what do I do?”This is caused by using the Hide Read Messages view. Switch to a different view by selecting a new one from the View menu. I’m not sure why this problem is cropping up more often Read More
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Tip 705: Poll: How many email accounts?

posted Tuesday, February 02, 2010 4:13 PM by outlooktips
I have a couple of new polls up at slipstick.com. With the first, I’m interested in knowing how many email accounts you have in your main Outlook profile. Early responses include people with more than 15 accounts. Wow. If I have that many, I wouldn’t Read More
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