Outlook Tips

Learning Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time

Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

Tips Archive

Tip 390: Outlook and Vista

Thinking about upgrading to Vista? Don't, unless you plan to use either Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. Outlook 2002 doesn't save passwords; Outlook 2000 only works in Corporate, not Internet Only mode, and brings up the Start up dialog each time it starts up. If you're in the habit of never closing Outlook unless you reboot and never reboot, it's not too annoying. :)  … [Read more...] about Tip 390: Outlook and Vista

Tip 389: Pan or Select

A reader asks:In Outlook 2007, when I try to select some specific text in an email, rather than the "select" cursor, I have a "hand" cursor that just wants to grab the message and scroll up or down. The tool bar offers "Select Text" as a command, but it selects all, and I can't even control that with the keyboard. It seems very odd and unintuitive. Do I have my settings … [Read more...] about Tip 389: Pan or Select

Tip 388: Spell-check Notes

Outlook supports spell checking in tasks, contacts, email, posts but not in Notes. This is because Notes uses a much simpler rich text editor than the other times and has fewer features as result. Since notes are for my reference only, I don't care about the spelling, but if you do, you can either compose the note in a new mail message or post form and paste it into the note … [Read more...] about Tip 388: Spell-check Notes

Tip 386: Saved Searches Don't Work

Over the last few days, several users have reported problems with saved searches. Existing *.oss files no longer work and they cannot save new ones, as the Save and Save as menu items are grayed out. This is caused by a security update, MS07-003(//www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-003.mspx) that was released Jan 9 2007. For more information and the fix, … [Read more...] about Tip 386: Saved Searches Don't Work