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When you receive a forwarded message as an attachment instead of inline you can drag and drop the attachment into your Inbox or other mail folder to read it. You can then reply directly to the original sender. When forwards are nested, as they often are when it came from an AOL account, open each attached message and drop the original message into your mail folder. … [Read more...] about Tip 54: Drag and Drop Forwarded Messages

Beginning with some versions of Office 2000, activation is required if you want to continue to use Office applications after 50 uses. You can "save" your activation and restore it without connecting to the activation servers provided your hardware does not change significantly and the installed Office applications are the same.Office 2000: Call in and write down the code … [Read more...] about Tip 53: Saving your Office Activation

Are you curious to know what the EULAs for the various Office programs and suites say? See Microsoft EULAs for a list of all EULAs. You'll need Acrobat as they are in PDF format. Good news for families with children... you can buy a copy of the student and teacher version and install it on up to three computers in your home for non-commercial use. The other versions have the … [Read more...] about Tip 52: EULAs for Office System 2003

As you are probably well aware, reminders only fire when the items is in the default folders. If you need to flag items with reminders but store them in another folder you have three options: Drag the item to a task and set a reminder on the task. Use Extended Reminder addin to fire reminders from and folder in your message store. Use Reminder Manager to fire … [Read more...] about Tip 51: Fire Reminders From Any Folder

Outlook has a very powerful filter available to use with Advanced Find, Views, Automatic Formatting or Search Folders. You can add conditions on one or more of Filter's tabs and the conditions are joined with AND. In many fields you can use AND or OR operators within the same criteria:Name contains Sue or BillSome fields will need a comma for OR: Subject contains … [Read more...] about Tip 49: Creating Advanced Filters