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Tip 959: Changing the Font used for Outlook’s RSS Feeds
Tip 958: Display Task Status in the To-Do Bar
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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Tip 957: Delete the MRU list in Choose Form dialog
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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Tip 956: Too Many Contact Folders?
With multiple accounts in an Outlook 2010 profile, you can have ridiculous number of calendar and contact folders in your navigation pane. Older Outlook versions are susceptible too, especially if you use the LinkedIn or Windows Live social connector. We show you how to reduce the clutter.
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Tip 955: Using Draft Messages in IMAP
When you subscribe to a IMAP account's drafts folder, it doesn't work "as expected" in Outlook. The messages contained in the folder won't be editable in Outlook because Outlook sees the messages as sent messages, not drafts. Moving the draft messages to Outlook's local drafts folder won't make a difference: Outlook still sees it...
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Tip 954: Instant Search won’t find Notes field in iCloud
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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Tip 953: Using Font Size 11 in Outlook Email
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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Tip 952: Missing Date Picker in Outlook’s Print Options Dialog
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...
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Tip 951: How to Stop Accidentally Dragging Outlook Folders
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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Tip 950: Appointments are received as plain text messages
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...
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