Diane Poremsky

One of Outlook's troubleshooting options is logging send/receive. While it's a great help when you have problems sending and receiving, it should only be enabled when you have problems as it can cause Outlook to crash, especially if you use IMAP accounts. Look for the logging option in Tools Options, Other, Advanced. You'll find the log in your temp folder. On WindowsXP, … [Read more...] about Tip 113: Outlook Logging

When you upgrade to Office 2003, the Office toolbar is removed from your computer and Office 2003 doesn't include a newer version. If you use the Office toolbar you can reinstall it. Run setup for the older version of Office and choose a custom install and only install the toolbar. If you prefer to try some newer toolbars, try the TrueLaunch bar. Because I like using the … [Read more...] about Tip 112: Restoring the Office Toolbar

One of the form options on the New menu is "New Post in the folder", an option which is highly underused. Posts are non-mailable messages which are saved to the currently selected mail folder. Use posts for notes to yourself or to hold snippets of information. (Posts often a better choice for longer notes than Outlook's Notes). You can easily edit a post by opening it and … [Read more...] about Tip 109: Diary Custom Form

If you use Word as your editor, you can use Ctrl+[ or Ctrl+] to increase or decrease the font size in HTML messages. These shortcuts work to change the font size for both RTF and HTML formatted messages using Word as your editor in all versions of Outlook. When using the Outlook editor, they do not work in all versions. … [Read more...] about Tip 108: Increase Font Size

Office XP SP3 was released yesterday and it didn't take long to find a problem with Outlook. Because the security level is more inline with Outlook 2003, you may see the "a program is accessing your address book.... " warning when you use older versions of some add-ins, especially anti-spam add-ins. Since most, if not all, add-ins were updated for Outlook 2003, the most … [Read more...] about Tip 107: Outlook 2002 SP3 and Security Warnings