Instant Search won't find content in the Notes field in the iCloud folder, but unlike other iCloud issues, this one is very easy to fix by adding the Notes field to the view.
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Teaching Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time
Instant Search won’t find Notes field in iCloud
Using Font Size 11 in Outlook Email (Outlook Tip 950)
Today's tip is for users with Outlook 2003 or older versions - Outlook's native editor uses only even-sized fonts, it does not support odd-sized fonts. If you type an odd-sized font in the font selector, it will round it up to the next font size.
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Missing Date Picker in Outlook’s Print Options Dialog (Outlook Tip 949)
The Print Options dialog in Outlook 2010 does not have date pickers available when selecting a range. I recently was upgraded to Outlook 2010. When I wanted to print a calendar in Outlook, I clicked in the date box and a small calendar would pop up to select the dates from. This has disappeared in Outlook 2010, and now...
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How to Stop Accidentally Dragging Outlook Folders (Outlook Tip 948)
One of my favorite features is the ability to drag folders around. It makes it easy to rearrange your email folders or drag folders to an archive file, but it's too darn easy to accidentally pick up a folder and drop it in another folder. Fortunately, there is a solution.
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Appointments are received as plain text messages
This is a fairly common problem for users who send meeting requests to Internet addresses. When we forward appointments to another employee, the employee receives a vcalendar attachment that opens as a Calendar entry on their copy of Outlook. When we send it to someone using POP3 email, the attachment is simply a forwarded email message, with the vcalendar...
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Reminders and Tasks in Other Data Files
We had two questions about tasks, reminders, and flags recently. One used wanted to know how to prevent reminders and flags from his archive pst file from displaying while the other user wanted to know how to make the reminders show. I get a lot of emails and my pst files are very large (12-17GB) with just the email...
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How to always download images in Outlook email
How to change the settings to allow Outlook to always download pictures when you read an email message (and why it may not be not a good idea to download images by default.)
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How to Edit the Registry
We often tell users how to edit the registry but don't always say how to do this. We do this in part because the registry is the nerve center of the computer and one wrong edit can...
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How to check if a file is marked read-only
When you get a new computer and move your existing data files to it, you may get an error that the PST file is not a valid file or that the information store cannot be opened. This...
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The Location Information dialog comes up when you enter a phone number
We get a lot of questions about the Location dialog that comes up the first time you enter a phone number in contacts. This is the Windows Phone & Modem dialog and you need to enter your...
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Where is the Mail icon?
The first step to fix a profile is to open the profile outside of Outlook. To do this, you need to "open Control Panel, Mail" but Windows hides the Mail icon in a Control panel group and...
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Outlook is missing from the Office 2010 Trial?
We get a lot of questions from users who downloaded the Office 2010 Pro trial. They say all of the applications were included except Outlook, which of course, was the reason they even tried it. Outlook is...
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How to install Outlook on a Netbook
So you got a new netbook or laptop but it doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. How will you get Outlook installed? And, really, is it worth installing a memory-pig like Outlook on a netbook? Yes, in my opinion, if you use Outlook on your desktop, its worth installing it on the netbook or laptop...
View Message Source in Outlook
The "View Source" option is sometimes a bit tricky to find in Outlook 2010's reading pane (or in opened messages). When I right-click in the body of an email either in the reading pane or in the separate window containing the email, the "View Source" option is not always in the menu. It's listed...
550 5.7.1 Relaying denied: You must check for new mail before sending mail.
If you receive this error message: 550 5.7. < alias@domain.com >… Relaying denied: You must check for new mail before sending mail. You need to configure Outlook to check for new mail before sending mail. Lowering your “check every xx minutes” time to 8 minutes or disabling Send Immediately may reduce the frequency of...
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