Diane Poremsky

Last week I told you how to disable Norton Antivirus's Office document scanner and a couple of people thought it was unwise and highly dangerous to disable the Office plugin. So how dangerous or unsafe is it to disable your antivirus's document scanning features? Like everything else, it depends on the person and the network and common sense prevails. Because antivirus … [Read more...] about Tip 249: More Antivirus Comments

It's often annoying to wait for Norton's antivirus scanner to complete when you open a document - it's also a waste of your time if you have it set on 'autoprotect' as that causes it to scan every write to the drive and even documents opened right from an email are written to the drive before opening. In recent versions of Norton Antivirus: Open the Options dialog and click … [Read more...] about Tip 248: Disabling Antivirus Document Scanning

A reader asked about printing email and attachments as messages arrived in the Inbox:"Is there a program that when a e-mail arrives in Outlook that it will print it out? Or one that prints the attachments all of them at once? Instead of opening the e-mail and then one by one opening and print the attachment?"Newer versions of Outlook support printing email using rules … [Read more...] about Tip 247: Printing emails

Do you use custom voting buttons? While you can't edit the list of choices, you can prevent the need to retype your choices by saving a template or publishing a custom form after entering the choices and completely other information that will remain the same on each message. Remember - if you use Word as your editor, you need to use the Outlook editor to save a template. You … [Read more...] about Tip 246: Using Custom Voting Buttons