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Tip 722: Blank Hotmail Messages

posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:05 PM by outlooktips
We’re seeing a lot of complaint from Hotmail Connector users  - they  have empty messages in Outlook while the messages are fine online: “many e-mails appear to be downloaded, ie show a time but there is no header, or body of message that can Read More
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Tip 721: Contact Birthdays

posted Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:08 PM by outlooktips
When you import contacts, their birthdays are not automatically added to the calendar as they are when you create a new contact manually or edit existing contacts. You have three options:1.     Open and save each contact2.     Read More
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Tip 720: DST, Times, Time Zones

posted Monday, March 15, 2010 3:50 PM by outlooktips
Surprisingly, things are pretty quiet today. We’re usually bombarded with questions about wrong appointment times right after DST begins and ends. Maybe this is a good sign that everyone has the DST updates installed and the correct time zone and DST Read More
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Tip 719: Disable the Junk email filter

posted Friday, March 12, 2010 1:28 PM by outlooktips
Warning! This registry hack will disable the Junk email filter in Outlook 2007 and 2010, including the blocked list, and disable the Junk email options button.   The ‘no automatic filtering’ setting in Outlook’s Junk email options disables the Read More
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Tip 718: Office 2010 Technology Guarantee

posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:11 PM by outlooktips
Anyone who is debating between getting Office 2007 now or waiting for Office 2010 can get 2007 now and 2010 when it comes out -See http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/tech-guarantee/ for details. If you do get 2007, make sure you get the copy of 2010 Read More
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Tip 717: Windows7 & Outlook’s Open Save dialog

posted Friday, March 05, 2010 5:00 PM by outlooktips
If you use Outlook on Windows 7 and open email attachments, you have probably seen the dialog that asks if you want to open or save the attachment after double clicking on the attachment. The option to disable the dialog (and always open attachments) Read More
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Tip 716: Address book sort order

posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 10:04 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user asked: “When I click on "To" to select who I am sending an email to, the "Select Names" dialog box pops up, with "Show Names From The" "Contacts" by default. The list of contact is sorted "First Name Last Name" how do I reverse this Read More
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Tip 715: Reminders and Recurring Tasks

posted Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:07 PM by outlooktips
The behavior of recurring tasks and reminders confuses a lot of users – when a reminder for a task is dismissed, all that happens is the reminder is dismissed on the current occurrence. The task is not marked complete and the next task is not generated. Read More
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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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