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Quick Tips for week 5

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000

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

Signature won’t save because of File Block settings
Reduce ost file size with Synchronization Filters

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Enlarge font in Reading Pane
You may have been BCCed warning
Hiding details of appointments and meetings

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Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:18:20 +0000

The Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck) is a program that checks the Microsoft Outlook Calendar and items for problems or for potential problems.

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:13:10 +0000

PST Capture is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online.

Beta testing for Office 15 has started

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:39:11 +0000

This week, a select group of testers were granted access to the Office 15 Technical Preview build. You can expect a public beta later this summer.

Quick Tips for week 4

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

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

Don’t let senders flag message with Reminder for me
Print a message with today’s date and time

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Working Offline and Reconnect to Server
Backup Add-in and Outlook 2010
Daily Task List Planner

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Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:45:39 +0000

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available.

Quick Tips for week 3

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

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

WebEx Toolbar/Ribbon buttons not available
Save attachment changes with original message

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Create shortcuts to files and folders on C:\-drive
Count distribution list members
Find e-mail between specific dates

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Save e-mail messages as pdf-file

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Looking for a way to save a message directly as a pdf-file? The VBA macro from this guide adds this option to Outlook without the need to install anything besides also having Word 2007 or Word 2010 installed.

Facebook Provider update for Social Connector

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:42:33 +0000

An update is available for the Facebook Provider for the Outlook Social Connector. This updates the Facebook Provider to version 14.0.6114.5003.

Quick Tips for week 2

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

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

Slow Contact Activities search results
Convert from a POP3 account to IMAP

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Reply to all emails in a specific folder
Search subfolders with Instant Search
Adding attendees and sending reminders

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Junk E-mail Filter updates for January 2012

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:22:53 +0000

New Junk E-mail Filter definitions have been made available for Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. The easiest way to get them is by using Windows Update (if it hasn't updated your computer automatically already).

Printing a yearly calendar with Holidays and Birthdays

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:30:00 +0000

Outlook itself doesn't contain a Yearly Calendar Style to print your calendar but you can use the Calendar Printing Assistant for this instead. This guide provides instructions on how to print a yearly calendar with key dates such as Holidays and Birthdays and also contains exclusive templates to improve the printing output.

Quick Tips for week 1

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

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

Update RSS feeds on demand only
Customizing the Activities view

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Cannot turn off Out of Office Assistant
Shrink pst-file after cleanup with Compact Now
Opening eml-files with Outlook

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Happy New Year!

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000

I’m wishing everybody a great 2012! And of course a trouble free Outlook year as well! :-)

To help you out, here are a couple of Outlook New Year’s Resolutions;

Backup your Outlook data
Disable add-ins you don’t use
Use more than rules to organize your mail

Continue reading: Top 10 Best Practices for Outlook

Quick Tips for week 51

Roady [MVP-Outlook] — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000

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

Mail Merge with Distribution List as source
Printing an opened Note in Outlook 2010

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Count Selected Items
Deleting large Calendar items
Do not automatically mark as read

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