If you really don't like Calibri, we show you how to use VBA and a Rule to change the font used for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010's RSS feeds to another font.
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Tip 959: Changing the Font used for Outlook’s RSS Feeds
Tip 945: Print a list of your Outlook Rules
Do you have a need for a text file containing a list of the rules assigned to your Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 default email account? A visitor to Slipstick.com submitted a code sample that creates a text file with the rule names and the From condition, in the order they are listed in...
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Tip 940: Messages moved using Sent Message Rule are Unread
You can create an "after sending" rule in Outlook to apply a limited number of actions to a message after it's sent. One of the more common uses is to move messages to another folder: I want to arrange Sent Items in folders and want to do it using rules. I created a rule...
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Tip 931: How to Create a Rule for All Email Except from One Sender
A user asked if it was possible to create a create a rule that would apply to all mail *not* from a particular user. Yes, there are two ways you can do this. The first: Create the rule and add an exception. The rule will read 'for all mail, do whatever, except if from...
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Tip 907: Rules and Expanding Folders
A user recently switched from POP to Exchange Server. When accessing his email in Outlook via POP, a folder would autoexpand whenever a subfolder received new message. However this does not happen with his Exchange account. “How can I get the subfolders to autoexpand when a new message arrives in one of these subfolders?”...
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Tip 895: What Moved a Message to the Junk E-mail Folder?
Outlook’s junk mail filter often gets blamed for putting mail in the Junk E-mail folder when some other program did it. So beginning with Outlook 2007 SP2, the infobar tells you if Outlook junk filter moved the message or not. If Outlook didn’t do it, it won’t tell you what put the message in...
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Icons used in the Rules and Alerts dialog.
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 the hammer and wrench icon are displayed for actions that don’t have their own icon. The actions...
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Creating a Rule to Filter Blank Senders
Two questions I get asked too often is “How can I filter blank senders?” and “But Outlook doesn’t support a NOT rule, like Outlook Express does.” Ok, so that last one isn’t really a question, but it does have an answer that begins with Yes: “Yes, Outlook supports a NOT rule.” Outlook uses Exceptions...
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Tip 851: Replies and Forwards are placed in the Inbox, not Sent Items folder
A user complains “When I reply to or forward a message the reply/forward is in my Inbox, not my Sent items folder. This only happens with Hotmail and IMAP accounts, not POP3.” Using the option to ‘Save copies with the original if not in the Inbox’ is a known cause. This setting is in...
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Creating rules that apply to an entire domain
Is there a way to set up a rule so that all emails from a specific server (example microsoft.com) go into a specific folder? I can do it individually each time someone from work emails me but want to set it up so that people from microsoft.com who have never emailed me would automatically go into...
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