Outlook Tips

Learning Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time

Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

Tips Archive

Tip 467: Send To Revisited

Way back in Feb 2004 (375 tips ago!), the tip told you how to use Word as the editor with the Send to menu (the default Send to Mail recipient link uses the Outlook editor). By creating a shortcut in the Sendto folder, you could right click on any file in Windows Explorer and send the file as an attachment. Unfortunately, due to security changes, it doesn't work with Outlook … [Read more...] about Tip 467: Send To Revisited

Tip 465: Save Button on Messages

The curious among us may wonder why open email messages have a Save button.   It just saves the original message. For example, if the message has an attachment and you remove the attachment (right click, remove) then press Save to save the message without the attachment. Once you do this, the attachment is history - it's gone forever. … [Read more...] about Tip 465: Save Button on Messages

Tip 464: Address Book Options

Oh where, oh where are the address book options? Not all in one place. :) 1. Address book's Tools, Options menu. (Ctrl+Shift+B to open the address book) If you only have one source of addresses you won't need to use the dialog. But if you have multiple contacts folders or address books, you will use this dialog to change which address book is shown first when you open the … [Read more...] about Tip 464: Address Book Options