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Tip 723: Compatibility Mode

posted Friday, March 19, 2010 12:50 PM by outlooktips
We’re seeing a lot of issues where the solution is disabling compatibility mode on Outlook.exe. I’m not sure why it was ever enabled to begin with – it’s not needed on Vista or Windows 7 or any other Windows OS. If you enabled compatibility mode, disable Read More
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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 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 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 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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