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June 2010 - Posts

Tip 755: Outlook and Windows 64-bit “Fax and Scan”

posted Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:08 AM by outlooktips
I've had a couple of queries recently relating to the Fax and Scan program in Windows. Users with 64-bit Windows  are unable to select a fax recipient from the Outlook or BCM address book. Fax and Scan can't use the Outlook address book because Read More
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Tip 754: Task Hours and Days

posted Friday, June 25, 2010 8:06 AM by outlooktips
An Outlook user asked: “I need to know how to stop Outlook task items from converting/changing the number of hours needed to complete the task to the number of days.” The User is talking about the hours worked on the Details page of an Outlook Task form Read More
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Tip 753: Moving Folders

posted Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:05 AM by outlooktips
Do you need to move folders from one pst file to another pst file? Or delete a bunch of folders from a pst? If you’ve tried this before, you’ve discovered you can only move (or delete) one folder at a time. However, you do move or delete all items within Read More
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Tip 752: Change images in Calendar Printing Assistant

posted Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:03 AM by outlooktips
When you use the Outlook Calendar Printing Assistant and the Year with Images 01 template, you can change the image used for each month by very carefully hovering along the edge of each monthly square then right clicking and selecting the option to change Read More
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Tip 751: Task subject on two lines

posted Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:56 AM by outlooktips
This week a couple of users asked if there was any way to make the Subject line in a Task two lines. In Outlook 2003 the subject line expanded if it did not fit in one line; now it scrolls. No, unfortunately you can’t change the subject line in Outlook Read More
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Tip 750: Outlook 2010 and large messages

posted Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:15 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2010 gets the maximum message size from Exchange server and prevents you from sending the message instead of sending it then bouncing it back. For those without Exchange, the limit is 20 MB. If you need to send larger messages or Outlook is incorrectly Read More
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Tip 749: Disabling Tooltips

posted Monday, June 07, 2010 1:09 PM by outlooktips
When you hover over messages and folders in Outlook a sometimes rather large screen tip pops up.  (http://slipstick.me/jing/tips.png) This screentip shows you the fields in the view that are not completely visible in the message list. You can’t Read More
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Tip 748: Open the Calendar automatically

posted Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:13 PM by outlooktips
A user asked “Is there a way I can make my Outlook Calendar automatically open to remind of what I've got to do ?” If you want Outlook to run when you start Windows, you need to put a shortcut to Outlook in the startup folder. If you want Outlook to Read More
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