Quick Tips for week 39 (25 September, 2009)

This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;

Icons of configured rules
Previewing attachments and security
AutoCorrect and formatting support
Scanpst.exe keeps finding issues
AutoComplete Quick Parts

     Working with message templates (23 September, 2009)

Working with message templates can be a great way to save some time composing emails or answering repeated requests. Outlook offers several methods to work with message templates to be more productive in any situation. This guide discusses the various methods and offers some tips to get you started with.

     Quick Tips for week 38 (18 September, 2009)

This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;

Quickly set dates with formulas and text
Messages automatically disappear after receiving
Don’t add FW: and header when forwarding a message
Insert picture directly from scanner or camera
Insert scanned document as attachment

     Scan & Attach (15 September, 2009)

This add-in adds a “Scan & Attach” button to new Outlook™ emails and replies.
So when you start a new email or reply to an email you will have an extra button in the the Outlook toolbar.
When that button is clicked the scanner begins the scanning process. The scanned image will then directly be attached to the Outlook™ email as a PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG or BMP file.

When required the “Scan & Preview” button opens a full blown image editor. 
All the options you may possibly need to adjust, crop, flip or reorder the scanned images before attaching them to the Outlook email are there.

The editor supports multiple languages and 18 different skins to offer you the interface that you prefer best.

     Quick Tips for week 37 (11 September, 2009)

This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;

The form required to view this message cannot be displayed
Why did Outlook crash?
Change default Due Date for Tasks
Tasks show up multiple times
Can’t create file: VoiceMessage.wav

     Email Templates (9 September, 2009)

Email Templates is an extension to Microsoft Outlook designed to send personalized messages rapidly to individuals and multiple recipients. Email Templates has the ability to create customizable message templates, speeding the process of handling email.

Email Templates provides any easy way to deal with repetitive email tasks. Instead of typing similar messages over and over again, or cutting and pasting from other documents, you simply select a template from the menu. By communicating quickly, you save valuable time. Email Templates allows you and your office to operate in a smooth, organized manner, alleviating time-consuming tasks and ultimately increasing productivity.

Email Templates can be easily used by everyone who uses email to quickly and efficiently customize, create and answer email.

Time Saving Features

• Reply To Messages With a Single Click
• Apply Templates To Multiple Messages With a Single Click
• Quick Paste Text Through Quote Templates
• Send Messages Directly to the Outbox for Single or Multiple Emails
• Pre-Addressed Templates
• Automatic Template Activation Through Inbox Rules

Personalized Features

• Personalize Replies
• Send Template Messages To Contacts
• Access Contact Properties As Template Elements
• Create Templates with HTML Formatting 
• Set Message Options In Templates
• Support For Templates With Attachments

Customizable Features

• Use Templates To Create New Messages
• Forward Messages Through Templates
• Organize Templates In Subfolders/Submenus
• Shared (Public) Templates
• Extend The Product Through Scripting

     Agave Software Inc (9 September, 2009)

Agave Software Inc is a software company founded in 1998 and located in Durham (USA).

     Quick Tips for week 36 (4 September, 2009)

This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;

Adding attendees and sending reminders
Clean up old RSS items
Change default address list in OWA
Who has read the message is a shared mailbox?
Editing in replies adds spaces

     Hotmail access “Forbidden” (2 September, 2009)

As of September 1st, the old way of making a connection to Hotmail (via a protocol called WebDAV) has been discontinued. This means that as of now, when you are trying to connect to Hotmail via the build-in HTTP method in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, you’ll get the following error;

Task 'Hotmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error
(0x800CCC33) : 'Access to the account was denied. Verify that your username
and password are correct.The server responded 'Forbidden'.

(the actual reported error code may be different for you)

The only supported way of connecting to your Live Hotmail or MSN account is via the Outlook Connector or POP3.

The Outlook Connector is the recommended method and can be downloaded from the links below;
Download: Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit
Download: Outlook Hotmail Connector 64-bit
Note: You will only need to install the 64-bit version when you are using the 64-bit version of Outlook 2010.

The Outlook Connector is supported for Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. If you are running an earlier version of Outlook, you can still connect to your Hotmail account via POP3. The settings can be found here.

Keep in mind that POP3 is download only and it only supports downloading mail from your Inbox folder (sending mail remains possible as well of course).
If you need full mailbox or contact and calendar syncing support and updating to a later version of Outlook is not an option to you, you can still access your Live Hotmail mailbox via Windows Live Mail (free).
Using Outlook Express included in Windows XP or Windows Mail included in Windows Vista is not an option as they only support the WebDAV connection method to Hotmail servers.

Tip: If you don’t like the way that the Outlook Connector shows your entire email address as the name of the Hotmail folder list in your Navigation Pane, you can easily change that with the Live Hotmail Rename Tool (free).