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Tip 750: Outlook 2010 and large messages

Outlook 2010 (and 2007, 2013) gets the maximum message size from Exchange server and prevents you from sending the message instead of sending it then bouncing it back. For those without Exchange, the limit is 20 MB. If you need to send larger messages or Outlook is incorrectly telling you the message is too large, you can edit the registry.In Outlook 2010, open the registry … [Read more...] about Tip 750: Outlook 2010 and large messages

Tip 749: Disabling Outlook's Tooltips and Popups

Tool tips in Outlook

Outlook has several different tooltips, screentips or popups that annoy users: Message List When you hover over messages in Outlook a sometimes rather large screen tip pops up.  This screentip shows you the fields in the view that are not completely visible in the message list. You can’t disable these screen tips, or increase the length of time the mouse hovers … [Read more...] about Tip 749: Disabling Outlook's Tooltips and Popups

Tip 748: Open the Calendar automatically

A user asked “Is there a way I can make my Outlook Calendar automatically open to remind of what I've got to do ?” If you want Outlook to run when you start Windows, you need to put a shortcut to Outlook in the startup folder. If you want Outlook to start in the Calendar folder, go to Tools, Options, Other tab, Advanced and select the calendar in the Start up in this folder … [Read more...] about Tip 748: Open the Calendar automatically

Tip 747: Quick Steps bug

I wasn’t planning on writing about Outlook 2010 for the next few tips, but I thought I should mention a bug in Quick Steps, especially since I recently wrote about Quick Steps on the Office blog.If you have a profile with only POP3, IMAP, or Outlook connector accounts and attempt to create a quick step that sends a message, you’ll need to type (or paste) the address in the … [Read more...] about Tip 747: Quick Steps bug

Tip 746: Outlook and Junk Email Settings

Configure Junk settings on each mailbox

If you have more than one account in Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013, you can configure different Junk Email settings for each account.Select a folder or message in each account’s data store, then open the Junk Email Options dialog and check the settings.If you are using one Inbox for more than one account,  select a message and the settings for the associated … [Read more...] about Tip 746: Outlook and Junk Email Settings

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