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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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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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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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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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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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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The big red X on the Work Offline icon confuses many users into thinking the X means they are already offline. While this is true for the large taskbar icon, the Work Offline button on the ribbon...
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Outlook 2010 adds a bit of confusion for users trying to access Account Settings: you need to go to File, Account Settings and the select the account settings from a flyout menu. The problem is that is...
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An Outlook user had this question: “I upgraded to Outlook 2007 & I’m missing a feature that was in Outlook 2003: right-click a contact to create an appointment for them & have this stored in the contact’s...
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A common question is what the hammer and wrench in the rules wizard dialog means. Each type of action used in rules uses an icon to identify the type action that is configured for the rule and...
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Last week we had a record number of people asking about saving copies of forwarded messages: “I cannot find where the messages are that I forward. I looked in the Sent folder but don’t see them there.”...
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A common question goes like this: “I moved my pst files to a new computer and set up Outlook to use the old pst files. When I try the first send/receive, Outlook downloads all of the emails...
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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...
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...
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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