Outlook Tips

Learning Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time

Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

Diane Poremsky

Tip 45: Send Attachments From Windows

When you send an attachment by right clicking on it and choosing Send, newer versions of Windows add a block of text to the message body. The text is added by the sendmail.dll and varies with your version of Windows, the same file that is used by Internet Explorer to add an attachment as a shortcut instead of a text link. Unfortunately, you can't remove this message text. To … [Read more...] about Tip 45: Send Attachments From Windows

Tip 43: Save Changes to Attachments

This tip applies to Outlook 2007 and older. The procedure is slightly different in Outlook 2010. See Editing Attachments in Outlook 2010 for instructions specific to Outlook 2010.When you open an email attachment and want to save changes to the attached file, open the message, then the attachment. When you are finished editing it, close the attachment and choose Yes to … [Read more...] about Tip 43: Save Changes to Attachments

Tip 42: Stop Processing More Rules

Rules are processed in the order they are listed in the Rules Wizard and you can rearrange the rules to better control which rules process which messages.Add a Stop Processing action to each rule to prevent subsequent rules from processing messages which are processed by a rule.If you want more than one rule to process messages, don't add the stop processing action to … [Read more...] about Tip 42: Stop Processing More Rules

Tip 41: Day of the Week

You can include (or remove) the name of the day on Outlook's calendar by changing the long date format in your Windows Regional settings. Open the Control Panel, Regional and Language Options applet and choose the Customize button. Select the Date tab and change your long date format. … [Read more...] about Tip 41: Day of the Week