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Disable Automatic Formatting for Bullets

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From an Outlook user: My problem is that whenever I type two hyphens, Outlook automatically thinks that I want it start a bulleted list and it will change my two hyphens into a bullet. That would be fine and dandy, but the automatic bullets in Outlook are not recognized by our accounting software and do not transfer over when I copy/paste. To get around this, I have been … [Read more...] about Disable Automatic Formatting for Bullets

How to configure Outlook 2010 for SpamCop reporting

A visitor to our site asked how to configure MS Outlook 2010 for SpamCop reporting. Outlook doesn’t directly report to SpamCop. You need to get the message header and source and forward the message to SpamCop yourself. You can also use an addin, as suggested by Bert Visscher. SpamSource helps collect information from messages and works with Outlook 2010 32 and 64 bit … [Read more...] about How to configure Outlook 2010 for SpamCop reporting

Outlook 2007 crashes after installing IE9

We're seeing reports that Outlook 2007 crashes when opening HTML formatted messages after IE9 is installed. It looks like the problem is specific to Outlook installed on Vista. At this time we are recommending users uninstall IE9 (or avoid installing it on Vista). You can do this from Control Panel, Programs and Features. Click on installed updates and look for the IE9 … [Read more...] about Outlook 2007 crashes after installing IE9

Outlook 2010 keeps looking for credential tiles?

A user was unable to connect to their Microsoft Exchange using Outlook Anywhere - as soon as he enabled cached exchange mode and restarted Microsoft Outlook 2010 it hung with the "Looking For credential tiles" message. For this user, Outlook 2010 works fine without cached mode enabled. It's just when cached mode is enabled that it brings up this message. This message is … [Read more...] about Outlook 2010 keeps looking for credential tiles?

Hotmail Error 4102

Note: This error may be fixed in the newest Hotmail Connector.We're seeing error 4102 reported more frequently since the release of the new Outlook Hotmail Connector. One astute user tracked it down to using only the Hotmail Connector data store in his profile (or setting it as default) - Outlook created the RSS feed folders and tries to upload them to the Hotmail/Live … [Read more...] about Hotmail Error 4102

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