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When you need to copy a table of data, such as names and phone numbers, create a new view that uses just the fields you need. Select the rows you need, then copy and paste into another document. If the document is OLE-aware, you'll need to paste into Notepad first, then Select All and copy from Notepad, otherwise, the actual contacts are pasted as objects, not text. … [Read more...] about Tip 154: Copy Outlook Data

When you have problems with Views not sticking or seemingly disappearing only to come back hours later, you may have corrupt views. You can use the /cleanviews switch to delete all custom views and reset the default views.At the Start menu, Run command, type Outlook.exe /cleanviewsIn some cases, you will need to use the full path to Outlook.exe.A list of … [Read more...] about Tip 153: Disappearing Views

If you ever tried to print just page 2 of a 4 page message, you discovered Outlook's printing capabilities leave much to be desired. The only way to print part of a message is to print it to a document or image file printer and if you have Fax listed under printers, you have the file printer. Along with Fax, other image printers are Microsoft Office Document Image Writer, … [Read more...] about Tip 152: Printing Email

After getting a new mouse, using a different computer, or watching someone else work, you may notice their mouse has different scroll behavior in Outlook than yours. This is most often because one of the mice is from Logitech. For some reason, the Logitech drivers don't support the "Office scroll" which allows you to scroll the message lists or reading/preview pane.You can … [Read more...] about Tip 151: Mouse Scrolling

Do you want to change the font in the Notes field in Outlook forms? It's the same font used in plain text messages. Look for the compose plain text font setting in Tools, Options, Mail Format, Fonts. … [Read more...] about Tip 150: Note Field Fonts