Tips Archive

One of the form options on the New menu is "New Post in the folder", an option which is highly underused. Posts are non-mailable messages which are saved to the currently selected mail folder. Use posts for notes to yourself or to hold snippets of information. (Posts often a better choice for longer notes than Outlook's Notes). You can easily edit a post by opening it and … [Read more...] about Tip 109: Diary Custom Form

If you use Word as your editor, you can use Ctrl+[ or Ctrl+] to increase or decrease the font size in HTML messages. These shortcuts work to change the font size for both RTF and HTML formatted messages using Word as your editor in all versions of Outlook. When using the Outlook editor, they do not work in all versions. … [Read more...] about Tip 108: Increase Font Size

Office XP SP3 was released yesterday and it didn't take long to find a problem with Outlook. Because the security level is more inline with Outlook 2003, you may see the "a program is accessing your address book.... " warning when you use older versions of some add-ins, especially anti-spam add-ins. Since most, if not all, add-ins were updated for Outlook 2003, the most … [Read more...] about Tip 107: Outlook 2002 SP3 and Security Warnings

Now that 'script kiddies' discovered sending virus infected zips gets their work past many antivirus programs, you many want to make it more difficult to open them or block them completely. You can do this by editing the Level1Remove key and adding the zip extension to force users to save before opening or add the Level1Add key to block the zip file type. For more … [Read more...] about Tip 105: Blocking Additional File Types