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Tip 414: Copy Error Dialogs

Tech support often tells users not to send screenshots of errors but to just send the text off error message. To improve accuracy, Office (and many OS dialogs) allow you to copy the text using Ctrl+C to paste into an email message or form field. Verify the  text from the error dialog's title bar is included when you paste the error text (or add it, if you type the error … [Read more...] about Tip 414: Copy Error Dialogs

Tip 413: Send Page by Email

Jacques asks:I use Internet Explorer. When I click on: Page, Send Page by Email... It opens an Outlook message including the selected page as an attached file in html format.Is there any possibility to have the Internet page directly included into the Outlook mail, not as an attachment? The goal is for the reader to open the Outlook mail and to be able to see … [Read more...] about Tip 413: Send Page by Email

Tip 411: Autoarchive Settings

Dan asks:"My inbox is not being Auto archived while the rest of my folders are. How do Ifix it?" Is the Inbox folder enabled for AutoArchiving? Right click on it and choose Properties, then go to the AutoArchive tab to enable it. If you want almost all folders enabled with the same settings, set the autoarchive defaults in Tools, Options, Other tab, AutoArchive button and … [Read more...] about Tip 411: Autoarchive Settings

Tip 410: Vista Sidebar's Outlook Gadgets

If you use Outlook on Vista, there are sidebar gadgets you can install to see Outlook data at a glance. < Gadget Galley is no longer available  > They all work ok, although the mini-Inbox brings up the dreaded security dialog each time you access email using it. … [Read more...] about Tip 410: Vista Sidebar's Outlook Gadgets

Tip 408: PDF Preview Handler for Outlook 2007 (and Vista)

Using Outlook 2007 or Vista and wish you could preview PDF's like you can Word and Excel documents? Now you can. Adobe PDF viewer for Outlook 2007's reading pane and Vista's Windows Explorer(link no longer available - however, since newer versions of Acrobat and Reader include the ability to view PDFs in the Reading pane this fix is not necessary.) Have Foxit Reader instead … [Read more...] about Tip 408: PDF Preview Handler for Outlook 2007 (and Vista)

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