Tips Archive

We’re starting to see complaints about appointment times suddenly being off an hour. When the problem only exists for appointments in late October and early November (and in March), it generally means you don’t have the time zone update installed. Check for updates at Microsoft Update and see //support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst for more info on worldwide updates.  (You can … [Read more...] about Tip 560: Daylight Time Change Reminder

Outlook Today uses IE to render the HTML, all of the links in Outlook Today are affected by the way the new version of IE handles styles. IE's default setting is to underline all links if a style is not applied, but IE8 ignores the CSS Outlook Today uses for links and the links are underlined, per the default setting. You can change the setting in IE's Internet Options but … [Read more...] about Tip 559: Underlined links in Outlook Today

Spam occasionally includes request read receipts. In some cases this is so they can check for valid email addresses but most of the time it’s not intentional or the spammer just wants to be doubly annoying since the sender’s address is invalid and the read/not read receipt bounces back to the victim in the form of an NDR.Newer versions of Outlook offer the ability to … [Read more...] about Tip 557: IMAP, Junk mail, and Read Receipts

You can change the default font and font color used by going to Tools, Options, Mail Format, Stationery and Fonts. This option is available in all versions of Outlook and with both the Outlook editor and Word editor, however the menu may vary in older versions. … [Read more...] about Tip 556: Change Default Font