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Tip 546: Delete Stuck Message

posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:02 AM by outlooktips
I’ve had a lot of questions lately asking how to delete large message stuck in the Outbox so I thought it was probably time to revisit this subject. First, try setting Outlook offline (look on the File menu). Wait a few minutes and in most cases the Read More
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Tip 542: Change File As Format

posted Friday, August 22, 2008 9:58 PM by outlooktips
If your contacts use different File As formats and you’d rather have all contact use a single format but changing each contact will take too long, you can use VBA to change the File As format on all contacts within minutes. Code sample which was tested Read More
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Tip 522: Hotmail and HTTP Support

posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:03 PM by outlooktips
Back in April, I mentioned that HTTP access would be disabled as of June 30 and at that time only the Outlook connector with Outlook or Windows Live Mail client could be used as an offline client for Hotmail, MSN, or Live mail. Due to complaints, Read More
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Tip 521: Printed Calendar Time Scale

posted Monday, June 23, 2008 11:27 PM by outlooktips
If you need to print a daily calendar with a 15 minute time scale, you’ll need to reduce the hours printed - 8am - 5 pm should use 15 min scale.  7am - 7pm uses 30 min. Read More
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Tip 505: Current View Pane

posted Monday, May 19, 2008 1:15 PM by outlooktips
In Outlook 2003 and 2007, the Navigation pane may contain a list of views available for the folder. If you have a large number of folders, the Current view section is usually hidden until you scroll down, but in the Calendar pane, the number of navigation Read More
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Tip 504: Hotfix for Outlook 2003 BCC MIME Bug

posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:07 PM by outlooktips
If you use Outlook 2003 on Vista you may have noticed some messages have the header in the message body, often when you were BCC’d on the message. There is now a hotfix for this (and other issues) available from Microsoft.  For more information see:Description Read More
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Tip 503: Display Work Hours

posted Monday, May 12, 2008 1:05 PM by outlooktips
John asks “I'd be happy if I could get my calendar to start with showing the start of my workday just below the all day events -- instead of 5AM. My workday starts at 8AM. I have reset my view, thinking maybe there was something in my customized Read More
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Tip 501: Sort Views Alphabetically

posted Monday, May 05, 2008 9:49 PM by outlooktips
The list of Views you see in the Define View dialogs or View selector lists groups the views into four groups, based on the type of view. You can’t sort the views alphabetically but they will be alphabetical within each group, with the groups in this Read More
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Tip 500: Word's Reading layout

posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:56 PM by outlooktips
Its been a few years since I last covered Reading layout and it’s time for an update. An Office user asks: “All e-mailed docs open up in Reading Layout (two page views). Is there a setting in Word or Outlook to change the default to Normal view?” Sure. Read More
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Tip 499: Windows Easy Transfer

posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:51 PM by outlooktips
If you are thinking about using Windows Easy Transfer to quickly and easily move program settings to your new computer, think again if you plan to use it to move your Outlook account configuration. More often than not you’ll end up with a corrupt profile Read More
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