Outlook Tip 926: Outlook 2010 introduces an often-requested new feature: Reply with a Meeting Request "Can I create an appointment from an email with all the people from the email? Example: I get an email with 5 people in the to/cc lines. I want to right-click and select Create Meeting and Invite These People....
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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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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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A user has a problem: he often sends large messages and they often get stuck in the Outbox. He forgets to check the Outbox and would like a warning message when messages won’t send. You will not get a dialog that says ‘hey, something is wrong and the message didn’t send’ but you can...
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Today’s topic is about setting margins in email. Yes, you can, but it’s not a good idea to do it. And if you set the margins too wide, unintended consequences can result. When you adjust the right (or left) margin, Outlook writes it into the HTML as Yes, it makes the email more readable...
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It’s easy for many people to get into the “Show all formatting” mode and difficult for many to figure out how to get out of it. When you are showing all formatting, you’ll see dots between words (for spaces), the pilcrow mark at the end of paragraphs, a ‘left turn’ arrow for line breaks,...
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The following code works in Outlook 2000 and up. It saves the attachments from selected messages but does not delete the attachments from the message(s). Copy and paste the code from this page into your ThisOutlookSession project. To do this, click in the text box, Select All using Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to copy. In Outlook,...
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While you can create a rule to automatically CC someone when sending a message, you can't use a rule to automatically BCC someone (including yourself). You can use VBA to do this. If you prefer to use an add-in, try AutoBcc or Always Bcc. Copy and paste the code from this page into...
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Junk Mail updates are released monthly. If you aren’t using automatic updates, go to Help, Check for updates once a month. New to Microsoft Outlook since version 2003: Junk Email handling. Junk email removes spam from your mailbox using built-in filtering capabilities. The junk mail feature is highly accurate when set on High and you...
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