Tips Archive

A few weeks ago I mentioned a work around for the Quick Click category bug, where the category is not saved when Outlook 2007 closes. There is a bug in Outlook 2007 where it forgets the quick click category at startup. It (and a long list of other bugs) is fixed in a new hotfix: Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-x-none.msp): October 27, 2009 … [Read more...] about Tip 673: Quick Click Category Hotfix

“When an email with a docx attachment is opened in Outlook, all is fine. When it is opened with OWA, the user is asked to save the document before they open. When this is done, the default extension is a .ZIP    If you change it to .docx it will open fine, but if you do not, it will extract to a bunch of xml files (Office 2007’s new format is zip-based).” The cause is missing … [Read more...] about Tip 672: OWA, .docx, & .zip

Outlook 2007 (and 2010) adds Next and Last buttons in the Reading pane and opened messages to make it easier to jump between the quoted messages. Not everyone likes this feature and if you are one of these people, you can disable message header shading. In Outlook 2007, go to Tools, Options, Email Options, Shade message headers when reading mail. In Outlook 2010, turn it off … [Read more...] about Tip 671: Hide Next and Last Buttons

Earlier this week, the question was about how to send a message to a group of people but only send the attachment to the recipients in the To line. This brings up a related question: How can I easily send to the original sender an Office document that was attached to an email I received and revised by me. Right now, I need to save the document with my comments, reply to the … [Read more...] about Tip 670: Reply with attachment

We get often get questions from users who would like to have the option to send attachments only to the To-list, with the CC and BCC recipients just getting the message without the attachment. Unfortunately Outlook doesn’t offer such an option. If you need to send attachments to some recipients and not to others you’ll need to resend the message or forward it without the … [Read more...] about Tip 669: CC without attachments?