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One of my favorite features is the ability to drag folders around. It makes it easy to rearrange your email folders or drag folders to an archive file. Like almost everything good, there is a downside: it's too darn easy to accidentally pick up a folder and drop it in another folder. Since Outlook can't search by folder name, finding a folder in a large mailbox full of nested … [Read more...] about Tip 951: How to Stop Accidentally Dragging Outlook Folders

This is a fairly common problem for users who send meeting requests to Internet addresses. When we forward appointments to another employee, the employee receives a vcalendar attachment that opens as a Calendar entry on their copy of Outlook. When we send it to someone using POP3 email, the attachment is simply a forwarded email message, with the vcalendar text as the email … [Read more...] about Tip 950: Appointments are received as plain text messages

We had two questions about tasks, reminders, and flags recently. One used wanted to know how to prevent reminders and flags from his archive pst file from displaying while the other user wanted to know how to make the reminders show. I get a lot of emails and my pst files are very large (12-17GB) with just the email I get during one year. So at the end of each year I make a … [Read more...] about Tip 949: Reminders and Tasks in Other Data Files

I set up a contact group. After saving it I can't find it anywhere. I tried searching but it's not found. Maybe I misspelled the name? There are (at least) three ways to find contact groups (distribution lists) within a contacts folder - Instant search, use a List view and look over the list, or create a filtered view. If you have a lot of contacts or a lot of groups, … [Read more...] about Tip 947: How to find 'lost' Contact Groups