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A security update for Outlook (2003, 2007, and 2010) was released today and its important that users install this update as the exploit does not require user interaction – just viewing the specially formatted message will kick it off. RTF message format is affected by this bug. While you can’t filter out RTF formatted messages, if you are really concerned, you can set Outlook … [Read more...] about Tip 800: Outlook Security Updates

“How do you change the default reminder time in Outlook from 4pm to a more reasonable time like 8am?” The default reminder time for tasks depends on when the task is created and due - tasks created (or flagged) for Today will always default to the reminder at 1 hour before the end of the working day.  Tasks due in the future will use the reminder setting in the Tools, … [Read more...] about Tip 799: Reminder Times

If you are having problems with Outlook 2003 crashing since installing the September security update (and had to disable your add-ins to prevent the crashes), a hotfix is now available that addresses this issue and allows you to use your add-ins.  MS10-064: Description of the security update for Office Outlook 2003: September 14, 2010//support2.microsoft.com/kb/2293428 … [Read more...] about Tip 798: Hotfix for Outlook 2003 Crashes

A lot of people are frustrated by the inability to easily create a list of Outlook folders. The only way to get a list is by doing a screenshot. If you use Snagit, you can scroll the folder list and capture the names in one shot. You can also output the capture to a text file.  If you need it, a video tutorial is here: //www.slipstick.com/tutorials/copy/foldernames.htm … [Read more...] about Tip 794: Create a list of folder names