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Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

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How to create a new Outlook 2007 or 2010 profile

Need a new Outlook 2002 or Outlook 2003 profile? See Creating a New Outlook 2002/2003 Profile. For Outlook 2000, see Creating a New Outlook 2000 Profile If Outlook is open, close it. Go to Control Panel, Mail - it's in the User Accounts category or switch to Classic view. In 64-bit versions of Windows you'll find Mail under the 32 bit group.  Alternately, you can … [Read more...] about How to create a new Outlook 2007 or 2010 profile

How to Create a New Outlook 2000 Profile

Outlook 2002/20023 and Outlook 2000/98 in Corporate/Workgroup mode allow you to have as many profiles as you want. Generally, we recommend one profile per computer user (creating a Windows user account for each user is best, especially if you use Windows XP, but more hassle if you use Windows 98/ME). If you use Outlook for personal and business email, you'll probably want two … [Read more...] about How to Create a New Outlook 2000 Profile

What is the SRS file? (And where is it?)

Send and Receive settings

I frequently tell people to "delete the SRS" to fix problems with send and receives, especially when Outlook crashes when they try to view the Send and Receive menu or do a send and receive. If you haven't guessed yet, SRS is the send and receive settings file. It holds the configurations found in the Send and Receive dialog that comes up when you press Ctrl+Alt+S. I have no … [Read more...] about What is the SRS file? (And where is it?)

Using Microsoft Outlook's Forms Designer

Enable Developer ribbon in Outlook 2010

You can use the Forms designer to design custom forms for Outlook. To open it, open any new form then go to Tools, Forms, Forms Designer (in older versions of Outlook). In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, you need to show the Developer ribbon before you can open the form in design mode. Outlook 2010: go to File, Options, Customize Ribbon and add a check to the Developer … [Read more...] about Using Microsoft Outlook's Forms Designer

How to create an Autoreply rule

Create a rule to reply with a template

To use Outlook to autoreply to email, you need to create a template then create a rule to reply using the template. If you want a "vacation reply", I highly recommend using the autoreply, often called "vacation reply", feature on your mailbox server, not Outlook. If you use Outlook to reply, you need to leave the computer running and Outlook checking mail regularly. Using … [Read more...] about How to create an Autoreply rule

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