Are you curious to know what the EULAs for the various Office programs and suites say? See Microsoft EULAs for a list of all EULAs. You’ll need Acrobat as they are in PDF format. Good news for families with children… you can buy a copy of the student and teacher version and install it...
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Tip 52: EULAs for Office System 2003
Tip 51: Fire Reminders From Any Folder
As you are probably well aware, reminders only fire when the items is in the default folders. If you need to flag items with reminders but store them in another folder you have three options: Drag the item to a task and set a reminder on the task. Use Extended Reminder addin to fire...
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Tip 49: Creating Advanced Filters
Outlook has a very powerful filter available to use with Advanced Find, Views, Automatic Formatting or Search Folders. You can add conditions on one or more of Filter’s tabs and the conditions are joined with AND. In many fields you can use AND or OR operators within the same criteria: Name contains Sue or...
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Tip 48: Go To Date
You can move around the calendar easily using Outlook’s Go To Date Feature. Open Go To Date using Ctrl+G, from the Go menu or by right clicking on the Day/Week/Month Calendar and choosing Go To Date. Enter the date and the calendar format you want to view it in – one day, work week,...
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Tip 47: Merging Calendar Folders
How to combine two or more Outlook Calendar Folders.
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Tip 46: Outlook’s Command Line Switches
Outlook supports a number of command line switches, including switches you can use to open Outlook to a specific folder, send email using a specific form, and several troubleshooting switches. To use the switches, open the Start menu, Run command and enter the command line in this format: Outlook.exe /select outlook:calendar If you receive...
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Tip 45: Send Attachments From Windows
When you send an attachment by right clicking on it and choosing Send, newer versions of Windows add a block of text to the message body. The text is added by the sendmail.dll and varies with your version of Windows, the same file that is used by Internet Explorer to add an attachment as...
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Tip 43: Save Changes to Attachments
This tip applies to Outlook 2007 and older. The procedure is slightly different in Outlook 2010. See Editing Attachments in Outlook 2010 for instructions specific to Outlook 2010. When you open an email attachment and want to save changes to the attached file, open the message, then the attachment. When you are finished editing...
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Tip 42: Stop Processing More Rules
Rules are processed in the order they are listed in the Rules Wizard and you can rearrange the rules to better control which rules process which messages. Add a Stop Processing action to each rule to prevent subsequent rules from processing messages which are processed by a rule. If you want more than one...
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Tip 41: Day of the Week
You can include (or remove) the name of the day on Outlook’s calendar by changing the long date format in your Windows Regional settings. Open the Control Panel, Regional and Language Options applet and choose the Customize button. Select the Date tab and change your long date format.
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