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With Outlook 2003 on Windows 7, users can't open zip attachments from a message - double clicking on the zip brings up the open/save dialog but clicking Open does not open it (the zip is saved in the securetemp folder each time its double clicked). To open the zips, users need to save them to the hard drive then open if they want to use Windows Compressed folders feature, or … [Read more...] about Tip 700: Outlook 2003, Win7, and zip attachments

We’re seeing a lot of complaints about News Feed folders reproducing like rabbits in Outlook 2010’s folder list. This folder is used by the new ‘social connector’ but to date, the news feed in the People Pane only works with Sharepoint 2010. For some reason, some users (possibly those with only a Hotmail/Live account in their profile) have multiple News Feed folders. To stop … [Read more...] about Tip 699: Outlook 2010’s News Feeds

For step by step instructions and a video tutorial, see Moving Outlook to a New Computer Upgrading to a new computer often causes headaches for users. While I have several pages with instructions on both slipstick.com and outlook-tips.net, its spread over several pages. I now have step by step instructions for users moving Outlook data to an new computer – all on one page. … [Read more...] about Tip 698: Moving Outlook to a New Computer

Today I’ll answer common autocorrect questions. Q: The program insists on capitalizing the first letter of every line even if not the beginning of a sentence. A: Stop pressing Enter at the end of the line. Outlook is fully capable of wrapping sentences every 76 characters (less if desired – look in Tools, Options, Mail format, Internet Format) and you only need to use … [Read more...] about Tip 697: Autocorrect Q & A

The Go, News command which opened the “Outlook Newsreader” (really Outlook Express in news-only mode) was removed from the Go menu beginning with Outlook 2003. Users who prefer opening Outlook Express or Vista Mail using this command can customize the toolbar to restore it. However, the command is missing when Outlook is installed on windows 7. Because Windows 7 does not … [Read more...] about Tip 696: Windows 7 and Go, News