Missing Date Picker in Outlook’s Print Options Dialog (Outlook Tip 949)

January 27, 2012
Type shortcodes in the Print Range field

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)

January 25, 2012
Dragging a folder with clicklock on

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

January 24, 2012
Configure Outlook to use icalendar format for Internet addresses

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

January 18, 2012
Enable Reminders and Task in other folders

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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Outlook Social Connector’s Add to Facebook page 404′s

January 16, 2012
Add to Facebook error

Wow. This bug may be fixed in record time! I first became aware of this error in late December 2011 and passed it along. I'm pleasantly surprised how quickly it is being addressed. Let's hope Facebook moves as fast as Microsoft did (less than 3 weeks). While this is not fixed by this update, Microsoft has released an update...
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How to find ‘lost’ Contact Groups

January 13, 2012
Sort by the icon column to group contact groups together

I set up a contact group. After saving it I can't find it anywhere. I tried searching but it's not found. Maybe I misspelled the name? There are (at least) three ways to find contact groups (distribution lists) within a contacts folder - Instant search, use a List view and look over the list, or create a filtered view....
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How to always download images in Outlook email

Outlook's Automatic Download Settings dialog

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

Windows Registry Editor

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

Check to see 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

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?

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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...

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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...

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