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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 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 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 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 700: Outlook 2003, Win7, and zip attachments

posted Monday, January 18, 2010 11:34 PM by outlooktips

With Outlook 2003 on Windows 7, users can't open zip attachments from a message - double clicking on the zip brings up the open/save dialog but clicking Open does not open it (the zip is saved in the securetemp folder each time its double clicked). Read More

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Tip 697: Autocorrect Q & A

posted Tuesday, January 12, 2010 2:39 PM by outlooktips

Today I’ll answer common autocorrect questions. Q: The program insists on capitalizing the first letter of every line even if not the beginning of a sentence. A: Stop pressing Enter at the end of the line. Outlook is fully capable of wrapping sentences Read More

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Tip 691: Hotmail passwords

posted Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:24 AM by outlooktips

As mentioned yesterday, calendar publishing is having problems and asking for passwords frequently. We know the cause of the calendar problem is a buggy server. But what about all of the other times Outlook can’t seem to remember the Live password? I Read More

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Tip 689: Automatic Underlines

posted Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:34 PM by outlooktips

This is really a Word problem and since Word is also the Outlook email editor, I’ll mention this handy (and sometimes annoying) feature. A user asked: "When typing ==== then hitting return, Outlook puts in a double line. This line cannot be selected, Read More