Save a new message to the Windows 7 Desktop then pin it to Outlook's Taskbar icon for easy access.
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Teaching Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time
Tip 986: Link to a Draft Message
Tip 985: Do ‘something’ when an Outlook reminder fires
With a little VBA code, you can do things when reminders fire, such as open a web page or send an email message.
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Tip 984: Hiding the Outlook icon in the Notification Area
How to control the display of the Outlook icon and disable the new unread message icon in Windows notification tray area.
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Tip 983: Using Autocorrect: When April is not April, May is not May
When April is not April 25, may is not May 10, and June is not June 3... The user's name is April and when she types her name as a signature at the end of an email in Outlook 2003 and hits ENTER, Outlook automatically changes April to April 25, 2012. How can I stop this? I've found similar...
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Tip 982: Filtering for ‘where I am the only person on the To line’
The filter rule for "where I am the only person on the TO line" only applies to the display name for the email account, not the email address. I want to create a conditional formatting view for my Inbox to highlight all messages sent only to me. I selected the box "where I am the only person on the...
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Tip 981: Social Connector Triggers Security Alert
When you use the option to Apply macro security configuration to add-ins, a security alert comes up when Outlook loads the update Social Connector.
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How to move Contacts from Outlook to Hotmail
If you have contacts in Outlook and want them in Hotmail, there is no need to export to a CSV file and import the contacts using Hotmail online.
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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 Social Connector and Facebook Provider Update
An update to Facebook affects the Outlook's Social Connector and users will need to be using the new Social Connector (updated in January 2012).
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...
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