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).
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Outlook Social Connector and Facebook Provider Update
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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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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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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Disable Automatic Formatting for Bullets
From an Outlook user: “My problem is that whenever I type two hyphens, Outlook automatically thinks that I want it start a bulleted list and it will change my two hyphens into a bullet. That would be fine and dandy, but the automatic bullets in Outlook are not recognized by our accounting software and...
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Tip 892: Show More Appointments on Outlook’s Calendar
A common complaint: When using the month view on days with several appointments, Outlook only shows the first few, with a down arrow icon which expands to Day view if there are more appointments. Because its easy to overlook the truncated cells in the month view, there is a high probability of overlooking an...
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How to configure Outlook 2010 for SpamCop reporting
A visitor to our site asked how to configure MS Outlook 2010 for SpamCop reporting. Outlook doesn’t directly report to SpamCop. You need to get the message header and source and forward the message to SpamCop yourself. You can also use an addin, as suggested by Bert Visscher. SpamSource helps collect information from messages...
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Outlook’s Rules Wizard and Duplicate Messages
A user had this problem: “I have 2 email accounts (EmailA & EmailB) and two subfolders (FolderA & FolderB) under my INBOX folder where mail for each account. I’m using rules to move the mail to the correct folder: specific words under sender’s (emailA) and recipient’s (emailA) address and move it to FolderA. It...
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Tip 891: Move a series of appointments to new dates
It is possible to move (or copy) a series of appointments to new dates and maintain the series pattern. While in the Calendar Month view, carefully select the appointments, holding Ctrl as you make the selections, then right-click and drag the selection to date navigator calendar. You need to drop the appointments on the...
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Tip 887: Create a rule to delete messages after a week
When you want to delete messages after a period of time you have you have three options: Use Autoarchive Create a Rule and use Run Rules Now Use to a rules replacement tool such as Auto-Mate that runs its own rules later Autoarchive works great to delete old mail, empty deleted items, or the...
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