Tasks in the To-Do Bar are the subject of a lot of questions about how to control what tasks are visible. Is it possible to display the Status of a Task as an icon in the To-Do bar? I would like to mark tasks that are currently "Deferred" or "Waiting on someone else", so...
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When you work with custom forms, you can eventually have a long list of folder names on the Look in list in the Choose Form dialog. You can clear this list by editing the registry.
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Instant Search won't find content in the Notes field in the iCloud folder, but unlike other iCloud issues, this one is very easy to fix by adding the Notes field to the view.
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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,...
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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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A user wanted to know if Outlook can display the total count of members of a Contact Group (distribution list). Yes, this is possible. Open the Contact Group and click Forward > In Internet Format. This creates a new message with the contents of the DL in a text file. Double click on the...
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How to move your appointments from your default Outlook Calendar into the Hotmail Live Calendar using the Outlook Connector.
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I'm hearing from a lot of people who are having issues with Outlook and iCloud integration. Some of the problems are to be expected: rather than syncing your existing data files as iTunes did, iCloud creates a new data file in Outlook and moves your appointments and contacts to it. This seems to create...
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An administrator wanted to know how to open the Email Properties dialog: "In outlook 2007 I double clicked the email address once Outlook had underlined it in the To field, then the email properties box opens and I could change the email type to Internet Type. But in outlook 2010 that feature is not...
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If you are receiving this error with AT&T or a Yahoo account, “L Tyler” suggests changing the POP and SMTP servers to the following names to put an end to the dialog. Incoming Mail Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com – Use Port 465 and SSL Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com – Use Port 995, SSL and authenticate with...
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