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If you experience any of the following, use Office Diagnostics (or Detect and Repair) to fix your Outlook installation: The Outlook shortcut on the start menu does not use the Outlook program icon. The start menu shortcut opens an unrelated dialog or a folder. Templates (*.oft) won't open when you double click on them in Windows Explorer Outlook is not listed as an … [Read more...] about Tip 430: Start Menu Icon

If you use Outlook 2007 and plain text format, be aware there is a bug in "Always check spelling before sending". The spell check on send appears to work but in reviewing the Sent item and the copy the recipient receives, the misspelled words remain misspelled. This only happens on plain text messages, not HTML or RTF. Correcting the errors as you type or by doing a manual … [Read more...] about Tip 429: Spell Check Bug

If you upgraded to Office 2007 and are having trouble finding the commands you need, there are interactive flash "cheat sheets" at Office Online that will show you where the commands are in the new interface in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook. //office.microsoft.com/en-us/getstarted/FX101938921033.aspx … [Read more...] about Tip 427: Find Commands in Office 2007

It's amazing how often a seemingly innocent action by the user and an update for a program can affect negatively another. In this case, it's MS07-027: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer, released in mid-May. After installing that update, Outlook 2003 responds very slowly when typing HTML messages. The problem is two-fold. First, users either added a large number … [Read more...] about Tip 426: Slow Typing HTML

Outlook pops up many dialogs that offer a 'never show this again' checkbox. If you check the box and change your mind, you'll need to edit the registry if you want to see the dialog again. You can also add values to this key so you (or your users) won't be presented with the dialogs ever. To control which dialogs are shown, browse to the following registry key (replacing the … [Read more...] about Tip 424: Never Show Dialog