Diane Poremsky

Now that Windows 7 is shipping, we’re starting to see a lot more problems that begin like this:“I used Easy Transfer to move files and settings to my new Windows 7 computer. Outlook isn’t working… “While Windows Easy Transfer (WET) works well for many programs, it does not work well for Outlook profiles. It frequently causes corruption of the profile. For this reason we suggest … [Read more...] about Tip 676: Windows Easy Transfer

An Outlook user asked: While pasting images to a plain text email, a dialog box will pop up: Microsoft office outlook compatibility checker: some of the features in this document aren't supported by plain text e-mail. Summary <feature> will be lost. It includes a check box for Don't show this dialog box again. I accidentally clicked on the check box. How do I get … [Read more...] about Tip 675: Show dismissed dialog

We have a new poll open with the topic of “Which version of Outlook do you use?Vote for your version at //forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072If you regularly use two versions, pick the one you use the most or the one you like better (your choice.)Registration not required to vote, but is required if you’d like to post comments in the thread. … [Read more...] about Tip 674: Outlook version poll

A few weeks ago I mentioned a work around for the Quick Click category bug, where the category is not saved when Outlook 2007 closes. There is a bug in Outlook 2007 where it forgets the quick click category at startup. It (and a long list of other bugs) is fixed in a new hotfix: Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-x-none.msp): October 27, 2009 … [Read more...] about Tip 673: Quick Click Category Hotfix

“When an email with a docx attachment is opened in Outlook, all is fine. When it is opened with OWA, the user is asked to save the document before they open. When this is done, the default extension is a .ZIP    If you change it to .docx it will open fine, but if you do not, it will extract to a bunch of xml files (Office 2007’s new format is zip-based).” The cause is missing … [Read more...] about Tip 672: OWA, .docx, & .zip