If you really don't like Calibri, we show you how to use VBA and a Rule to change the font used for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010's RSS feeds to another font.
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Teaching Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time
Tip 959: Changing the Font used for Outlook’s RSS Feeds
Tip 958: Display Task Status in the To-Do Bar
Tasks in the To-Do Bar are the subject of a lot of questions about how to control what tasks are visible. Is it possible to display the Status of a Task as an icon in the To-Do bar? I would like to mark tasks that are currently "Deferred" or "Waiting on someone else", so that one can immediately recognize...
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Tip 957: Delete the MRU list in Choose Form dialog
When you work with custom forms, you can eventually have a long list of folder names on the Look in list in the Choose Form dialog. You can clear this list by editing the registry.
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Tip 956: Too Many Contact Folders?
With multiple accounts in an Outlook 2010 profile, you can have ridiculous number of calendar and contact folders in your navigation pane. Older Outlook versions are susceptible too, especially if you use the LinkedIn or Windows Live social connector. We show you how to reduce the clutter.
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Tip 955: Using Draft Messages in IMAP
When you subscribe to a IMAP account's drafts folder, it doesn't work "as expected" in Outlook. The messages contained in the folder won't be editable in Outlook because Outlook sees the messages as sent messages, not drafts. Moving the draft messages to Outlook's local drafts folder won't make a difference: Outlook still sees it as a message that was...
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Tip 954: Instant Search won’t find Notes field in iCloud
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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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...
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...
Using Wordmail in Office 2010
A selling point of early versions of Office was “wordmail” where, with the click of a button, an email header was added to the Word document or Excel file. All you need to do was address it and click the Send a Copy button and the document was sent in the body of a...
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