Outlook Tips

Learning Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time

Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

Diane Poremsky

Tip 146: Exclude Dictionary

Today's tip is a general Office tip. Many people are unaware that the Office spell-check offers an "exclude dictionary" you can use when the dictionary contains words that you want to be flagged as misspelled. You may have a habit of mistyping a word, only to discover spell check missed it because it is a correctly spelled word. The exclude dictionary works with Outlook when … [Read more...] about Tip 146: Exclude Dictionary

Tip 145: Attachment Field

When you add an attachment to an e-mail, it's displayed in the Attachment field (under the Subject field in newer versions, at the bottom of the window in older versions) if the message is plain text or HTML. When the message format is Rich Text (RTF) it can be anywhere in the message body. Whether attachment names are included in printouts of the message depends on the … [Read more...] about Tip 145: Attachment Field

Tip 142: Importing and Exporting

Importing and Exporting has a time and place--and that time and place is not when you are setting up a new computer and need to move your Outlook data from the old computer. Locate the *.pst on the old computer, move it to the new computer and connect Outlook to it.When you use import and export, you reset the Modified date. Since AutoArchive looks at the modified date, it … [Read more...] about Tip 142: Importing and Exporting