Diane Poremsky

Does the huge attachment icon in the header waste too much of your screen real estate?It’s not too bad if you are using a touch screen, since it’s an easy target for big fingers, but the attachment row is twice as large as it needs to be for desktop users.If you use the compact header (click the caret on right), you can hide the attachments in received messages by … [Read more...] about Outlook 2016’s Attachments icons are huge

Users who were upgraded to Office 2016 have discovered they can’t preview Excel files in Outlook’s reading pane. When they select an Excel attachment, they receive the following error message:This file cannot be previewed because there is no previewer installed for it.This is due to an incorrect registry entry for the preview handler. While this will be fixed in a … [Read more...] about Outlook 2016: Excel files won’t preview

What many people suspected might happen has happened: Business Contact Manager (BCM) will not be updated to work with Outlook 2016. Anyone who uses Outlook 2013 and wants to continue using BCM will need to remain on Outlook 2013. This means BCM users should not update to Office 2016 this week and will need to block the automatic updates that are coming October 1 2015 for … [Read more...] about Good-bye BCM!

Another week, another problem with Outlook and Windows 10. This time only 32-bit versions of Office 2010, plus Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2003 are affected.The problem: Clicking links in email open a file browser dialog titled Locate Link Browser when Internet Explorer is set as default. When Edge, Chrome, or other browsers are set as default, links work fine; only Internet … [Read more...] about Outlook on Windows 10: Hyperlinks Don't Work

This specific issue was fixed in the August 19 2015 Product Update.After upgrading to Windows 10, some users are having problems opening Office documents that are attached to Outlook messages. When they try to open the attachments, they receive an error message that there is an error or the file is corrupt.Excel: "This file is corrupt and cannot be opened" Word: "Word … [Read more...] about Email Attachments Won’t Open After Upgrading to Windows 10 (Fixed)