Tips Archive

Tip 836: Missing Mail Favorites?

We get a lot of questions about the Mail Favorites gone missing. In many cases, they aren't really missing, but the user is looking at the wrong navigation pane. When this is the case, you can use the Mail button on the navigation pane or press Ctrl+1 on the keyboard to jump to the mail pane.These screenshots show Outlook 2010's Mail Navigation pane and Folder list pane. … [Read more...] about Tip 836: Missing Mail Favorites?

Tip 835: Using Office 2010 Home & Student with Outlook 2010

Office 2010 Home & Student is an affordable option for non-commercial use but it lacks Outlook. Outlook 2010, when purchased by itself, is missing some features found in the version installed from a suite, including SmartArt and themes. One would think that Outlook would pick up the missing features from Word but users are discovering it doesn’t work like that; to have … [Read more...] about Tip 835: Using Office 2010 Home & Student with Outlook 2010

Tip 833: Open Outlook with multiple calendars selected

A popular request is the ability for Outlook to remember what calendars were selected when you last used Outlook and to reselect them at startup. The good news: Outlook 2007 and 2010 should remember the selected Calendars. The bad news: it only remembers when you “start in” the Inbox or non-calendar folder. If the calendar module opens at start, only the default … [Read more...] about Tip 833: Open Outlook with multiple calendars selected

Tip 832: View the Properties dialog

In Outlook 2007 and older, users could open an item then go to File, Properties and view a dialog that included archive options, importance and sensitivity settings, and the sent, received, and modified times.In Outlook 2010, the properties dialog is the Message Options dialog – it has archive options, importance and sensitivity settings, expiration settings, contact and … [Read more...] about Tip 832: View the Properties dialog

Tip 830: Outlook 2010, IMAP & Send to commands

I’m hoping this will be my next-to-last post about the problem of Outlook2010’s handling of multiple accounts when an IMAP account is the default email account. (The last post will be an announcement that users can revert to the old way of handling default accounts. I don’t know if it will ever happen though.) The problem: Outlook 2010 chooses the email account to send mail … [Read more...] about Tip 830: Outlook 2010, IMAP & Send to commands