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Do you sometimes wish you could take back the message? While Recall doesn't work very well, you can delay each message a few minutes just in case you change your mind.Outlook has two options for deferring delivery - setting a rule to hold the mail for xx minutes and selecting a date and time for delivery in the options dialog of a message. Create a rule to hold messages … [Read more...] about Tip 149: Deferred Delivery
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Tip 148: Tracking E-mail?
"Is there any way in Outlook, besides the tracking feature, to see how many people opened an email?In Groupwise we had a feature in the Sent Items folder where we could click on properties and see: How many people the email was sent to. How many opened. How many replied. How many deleted. Would love to know how to do this in Outlook (tracking does not seem to fit the … [Read more...] about Tip 148: Tracking E-mail?
Tip 147: Using Outlook's Autocomplete Cache
When sending an email to a person you can type in the first few letters in the TO: area and the name will automatically appear from cache names. Is there a way to clear the cache of names from automatically appearing in the TO...?Beginning with Outlook 2002, Outlook added the Autocomplete feature to remember frequently used addresses. When you send a new message or reply to … [Read more...] about Tip 147: Using Outlook's Autocomplete Cache
Tip 146: Exclude Dictionary
Today's tip is a general Office tip. Many people are unaware that the Office spell-check offers an "exclude dictionary" you can use when the dictionary contains words that you want to be flagged as misspelled. You may have a habit of mistyping a word, only to discover spell check missed it because it is a correctly spelled word. The exclude dictionary works with Outlook when … [Read more...] about Tip 146: Exclude Dictionary
Tip 145: Attachment Field
When you add an attachment to an e-mail, it's displayed in the Attachment field (under the Subject field in newer versions, at the bottom of the window in older versions) if the message is plain text or HTML. When the message format is Rich Text (RTF) it can be anywhere in the message body. Whether attachment names are included in printouts of the message depends on the … [Read more...] about Tip 145: Attachment Field