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  Friday, February 05, 2010 – Permalink –

Order on the Right

Context Menu

Eric Legault shares the VBA code that can be used when "Organizing Your E-mail Using Custom Item Context Menus in Outlook 2007".

May appear to be daunting, but if you have had some exposure to VBA, it's not that bad.

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  Thursday, February 04, 2010 – Permalink –

Command Reference

2003-2007-2010

Those of you that are just now making the switch to the Ribbon world, will find this valuable.

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  Tuesday, February 02, 2010 – Permalink –

Office Training

Suggestions

TechRepublic lists a number of areas that you might explore when training is needed for a new Office version.

Here are a few:

  • LINKS TO TIP SHEETS AND ARTICLES
    "Instead of telling your users to go out to Microsoft.com and do a search, put hyperlinks to the printer-friendly version of tip sheets and articles on your company's main portal page. Providing links to information you know they need will help you cover the training bases. And presenting the links on an internal web site they already use will show your users that it's okay to go outside of their four firewalls to learn something new. Include your favorite hyperlink in your signature line so it goes out in every e-mail you send."
  • ONLINE TRAINING
  • E-LEARNING
  • WEBCASTS
  • VIRTUAL TRAINING
  • MULTILINGUAL SCREENTIPS AND TRANSLATIONS
  • COMMAND REFERENCE GUIDES
  • OFFICE ONLINE AT WORK
10 ways to train your users on Office 2007 for free




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  Friday, January 29, 2010 – Permalink –

Stop Reply To All

Macro magic

Scott Hanselman (who is ". . . an old fat guy with a Black Belt that used to fit") has a tutorial on how to disable "Reply to All".

How To Easily Disable Reply To All And Forward In Outlook






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  Friday, January 22, 2010 – Permalink –

Outlook Tips

Suggestions

Outlook-Tips.net was put together by Diane Poremsky. While it covers Outlook 2003, the advice is still good.

Outlook-Tips.net





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  Thursday, January 14, 2010 – Permalink –

Customize Your Calendar

Do it your way

. . . you can view your days and weeks in increments of 5 minutes, 60 minutes, and a variety of periods in between. You can adjust the view of your calendar according to your work week and work day; for instance, you can display Sunday through Thursday and show a normal day as being 11 in the morning to 7 in the evening if you like. Use different color schemes, and show more or less detail in your calendar.

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  Tuesday, January 05, 2010 – Permalink –

Signature Moves

Sign it your way

Here is a tutorial about Outlook pre-set signatures:

"Signatures can be created in different formats and it can contain various elements. A basic signature will have just the sender’s name. Along with the name you can include acknowledgments like "Thank you", "Yours Lovingly", etc. Official or business signatures will have company name, contact number, company address, website URL, etc. Company logo or any other relevant graphic can also be used. Any text in the signature can be hyperlinked. Sometimes electronic business card or scanned signature is also used. The text of the signature can be formatted to make it more attractive. Occasionally signature will also contain disclaimer blocks like stating, "If you are not the intended recipient of the e-mail then you should delete the e-mail".


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  Sunday, January 03, 2010 – Permalink –

Keyboard and Key Tips

Finger it out



2007 apps look different because of the ribbon, but the keyboard can still be used to speed up tasks.
Microsoft has an online course that may help

After completing this course you will be able to:
Accomplish tasks by using sequential shortcut keys, known as Key Tips, shown on the Ribbon.
Navigate around the Ribbon using the TAB key and arrow keys.
Accomplish tasks by using key combinations — keys you press at the same time - exactly as you've done in previous versions of Office.
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  Wednesday, December 23, 2009 – Permalink –

Moving PST

Instructions



It is sometimes necessary to move Outlook .PST files to a different drive on your local computer.

Here are Microsoft's instructions:

How to Move your Personal folders

You may be tempted to move the file to a network drive, but Microsoft advices against it:

Why Outlook .PST files are unsupported over a LAN or WAN link

How to manage .pst files in Outlook 2002 and in Outlook 2007

 
Slipstick.com has this to say about how
 To move a Personal Folders .PST file

and

Moving Outlook .PST files to a new machine

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  Wednesday, December 16, 2009 – Permalink –

It's Policy

Set your own


It's best to make your email rules available and well known:


" Email is a quick, cheap and easy means of communication. This makes email a great business tool, but at the same time a potential threat for employers. Email threats such as confidentiality breaches, legal liability, lost productivity and damage to reputation cost companies millions of dollars each year.
How can a company protect itself from these threats? The first step in securing your company is to create an email usage policy. After you have created your email policy you must make sure it is actually implemented. This can be done by giving regular trainings and by monitoring employees' email using email security software. "

You may find it useful when trying to develop your own E-mail policy.

EmailRepies.com: Create an Email Policy

Business Link: Introduce an Email Policy

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  Thursday, November 26, 2009 – Permalink –

Send Pictures

Email Photos


If you have a photo on your computer, from a digital camera or something that has been scanned to produce a JPG, GIF, or PNG file.

Here are two choices for doing that:


  1. Send the photo as an attachment to an email. It'll show up as an icon at the top of the email for the receiver to click and open in their picture viewer. This is the most common option.
  2. Embed the photo into a HTML formatted message so it appears in the text of the message just like a photo in a newspaper article. This looks nicer for people who want to read the message and not necessarily work with the photo file. But there are compatibility issues to keep in mind.
Whichever way you choose, you need to keep an eye on the overall size of the message. With higher resolution cameras available it's easy to go over the recipient's limit for incoming messages.
There is a little more to it. Here is a link to a great newsletter that comes in handy again and again:
 Office-Watch.com



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  Friday, November 20, 2009 – Permalink –

Download All Outlook Pictures

The Good and the Evil


By default, Outlook 2003 blocks all HTML content that is referenced by an external location. Many junk e-mail senders put an image URL in the e-mail message. The image URL notifies the junk e-mail senders' Web server when you read or preview the e-mail message. This type of image URL is also known as a "Web beacon." An example of a Web beacon image URL is:

<img src="http://myserver/cgi-bin/program?e=your-e-mail-address-here" />

If you preview or open an e-mail message with this type of an image reference, this action may make you a target to receive more junk e-mail messages.

To prevent this type of Web beacon, where an HTML e-mail message contains references such as links and banners to an external URL, the Outlook 2003 HTML viewer does not automatically render the external content. Instead, when you view the e-mail message, areas in the e-mail message that should have a picture appear as a red X placeholder.


Also, you receive the following InfoBar message that indicates that the HTML content has been blocked:
Click here to download pictures.
To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download
of some pictures in this message. 


With all that warning, if you still want to do it:

  1. Open Outlook
  2. Click Tools menu
  3. Select Options
  4. Click the Security tab
  5. Click Change Automatic Download Settings button
  6. Select when you want pictures downloaded
  7. Click OK OK
Download pictures automatically in Outlook In Outlook 2007 go to Tools>Trust Center Automatic Download

 




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  Tuesday, November 17, 2009 – Permalink –

New in 2003/2007

Fresh look



When Office 2003 was released, the only application that showed obvious changes from the earlier version was Outlook.

Slipstick.com does a good job describing the changes and providing useful links.
Also Office System 2007

Here is the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Product Guide

Here is Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 product overview

2010 adds the Ribbon.

There is an apocryphal story that when Outlook was first considered, it was a PDA, kind of an electronic date book.

One Microsoft manager, supposedly, questioned adding an e-mail reader, since any one who wanted to do that, could just do it on the Internet.

Another story was that Microsoft was a little slow recognizing the Internet, because their managers were too old. They were in their late 20's and when they went to school the net had not progressed that far from the Well in San Francisco.

When the young graduates entered the company, they were used to Internet access from their dorm rooms. MS woke up and swung the ship around almost overnight.

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  Sunday, November 15, 2009 – Permalink –

Color News

A multidiscipline subject


Here is a study about how color effects a reader's choice of concentration.

It was intended for newspaper publishers, but the same knowledge can be used in Web design, PowerPoint, or any other reporting application. Word and Excel will also benefit.

Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design

ColorProject

The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.
Poynter.org



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  Thursday, November 12, 2009 – Permalink –

Switch Controls

Startup flags


Microsoft supplies switches or flags that can be used following a Command-Line start of an application
After the Executable allow a space and the enter the Switch.

The Microsoft Outlook Help file contains an entry that lists command-line switches, which you can use to start Outlook in a specific mode or with a specific form.
This article lists additional command-line switches that are not included in the Outlook Help file.

Search for "Switches".

Here's a good one:
/sniff
Starts Outlook, forces a detection of new meeting requests in the Inbox, and then adds them to the calendar



Command-Line Switches

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  Sunday, November 08, 2009 – Permalink –

No Read Receipts

Shut them down


Email that includes a Read Receipt request can be a bother. You could click no when Outlook asks to send the reply, or you can set up a more permanent solution.
  1. Go to Tools>Options.

  2. In the Options dialog box, select the Preferences tab.

  3. Click the E-Mail Options button.

  4. In the E-Mail Options dialog box, click the Tracking Options button.

  5. Choose the option Never send a response.

  6. Click OK.

(In 2007+ click the Office button and go to Options>Mail)




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  Friday, November 06, 2009 – Permalink –

Journal

or not


When you are poking around in Outlook, you may click on the Journal icon.
A dialog box will appear asking if you want to turn Journal on:

Journalize dialog box

Resist the temptation. Every Word/Excel/PowerPoint and Access file will be placed on a time line.

Every e-mail sent to a Contact will be indexed. This will slow down your machine. It is a massive overkill.

If you are involved in a project, you can use Journal to track specific documents.

Here is a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on how to Disable Journaling for All Users.

Here are some Journal Issues.

If you still want to use Journal, here are some references from Slipstick.com.

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  Saturday, October 24, 2009 – Permalink –

What's in Your Head(er)?

See it all


There are ways to see an email header.

See:
Email Headers
Outlook-Tips.net shows a way to do it:
. . . you can view the header and source together in the options dialog, if you edit a registry key. This works on mail downloaded from Internet mail transports only, not Exchange server mailboxes. However, if you access the mailbox using an Internet transport, you'll see the full source.
Open the registry editor and navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Mail

Right click on the right pane and choose new DWORD:

Parameter: SaveAllMIMENotJustHeaders
Value: 1


Viewing Headers


[Edited entry from 10/9/2006]

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  Monday, October 19, 2009 – Permalink –

Re-search Research

Look again


Outlook has a feature functionality for "Search Folders".

Henrik Walther, at Outlook Exchange, has written a description of how to use this tool:

Using Search Folders in Outlook


Search Folders are a kind of new user interface for the Advanced Find functionality, which has been with us through several Outlook generations. The thing that makes Search Folders new and unique is the possibility for defined search criteria to be saved and represented through a kind of virtual folder in the Outlook client. What this means is it gives us a virtual folder view of the content in one or more "normal" folders, for which a search criteria has been defined.

Also:
Office.microsoft.com:
Search Folders




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  Wednesday, October 14, 2009 – Permalink –

Access to E-mail

What's the Outlook?


Garry Robinson from GR-FX Pty Limited of Australia and Scott McManus from Skandus, have a tutorial about:

Processing E-Mail Orders using Outlook and Access.

They have include sample database downloads and the code needed to make the engine work.

"Using Microsoft Access and Outlook together can reduce manual processing of Ordering emails very substantially. I know this because sometimes it would take up to 15 minutes to undertake all the little steps of saving customer details into tables and newsletter lists. Also without software, it was very difficult to explain to other staff members what to do when an e-mail arrived. Now we can process the orders in a couple of minutes when Outlook email arrives in the correct folder."

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  Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – Permalink –

Email Garage

Auto Archive


Auto archiving of old messages is a two-part process. Go to Tools>Options and choose the "Other" tab.

Click the "AutoArchive" button.

Select where you would like the archive.pst file to be stored and how often you want messages to be moved to the archive.pst file, for instance every 14 days.

OKyour way out.

AutoArchive is a process that searches for folders that have items that need to be saved.

Now you need to set up the folders that you want AutoArchive to look at. Go to View>Folder list.

Right click on a folder such as Inbox, Family letters, any other directory that you have created.

On the Right click Shortcut menu, choose Properties.

Choose the AutoArchive tab.

Put a check next to "Clean out items older than" and choose the time period. You can decide to have items in that folder sent to an archive file of your choosing. For instance older than 3 months.

OKyour way out.

Now ever 14 days AutoArchive will look at the folders and archive files that have become older than 3months.

Also see:


Working with AutoArchive Default Settings - University of Wisconsin
Outlook Email Archiving Tips and Tricks - The Naked PC
Outlook Backup and Archive Procedures - Kellogg School of Management
Setting Up Retention Settings in Outlook 2003 -Microsoft Office Online
An Overview of Archive and AutoArchive - KB 290847

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  Wednesday, October 07, 2009 – Permalink –

Outlook's Right

The bounty that is a right click.


  • Right click on Outlook's group headers to Collapse All or Expand All

  • Right-click your calendar and choose Open in New Window. When you do, Outlook opens a new window for your calendar and you can toggle back and forth using the Windows taskbar

  • Right-click the message in the message view window and select Options. The box "Request a read receipt for this message" under Tracking Options will have a check in it if the message was sent with a read receipt

  • Right click in the middle of the file name if there is a file attached. You will see the option box with the choice of Print, Save As etc…

  • Right the name in the email you receive if you want to add to the contact list. click on Add to Contacts in the context menu and entry for the contact will open with the name and e-mail address already filled in. Fill in the other details if required and save the contact

  • Right-click the folder you want to search in the Folder List or Outlook Bar and select Advanced Find

  • Right click on the Day planner's time scale to change the scale or access Time Zone settings.

  • Right click Personal Folders and choose Properties. Select Folder size to see the size of your PST

  • Right click on any Day/Week/Month view for a host of options, include Go to Day...

  • Right click on folders (including shortcuts on the Outlook bar) to see folder options

  • Right click the Deleted Items folder Click Empty Deleted Items Folder on the shortcut menu.

  • Right -click the folder you want to Archive, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu. Click on the AutoArchive tab. Specify whether you want to archive this folder and it so, whether to use the default AutoArchive settings or your own settings

  • Right click on any white pace in any folder view to access view options. (Double click in white space to create new items)
Here's one of the sources for these tips:
 Outlook-Tips.net



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  Friday, October 02, 2009 – Permalink –

Messy Email

Junky appearing addresses


Office-Watch is a great newsletter covering Email/Windows/Access and Office in general.
One of their recent offerings tackled email addresses:

Which of these email address (all fake) is formatted correctly?

f.r.e.d.a.g.g@gmail.com

"Frederick Dagg"@freddagg.com

Fred+sheepdip@freddagg.com

Fred*Dagg=funny@freddagg.com

FredO’Dagg@freddagg.com

Bruce^Bayliss@freddagg.com

Prof~Taihape@freddagg.com

FD{Prof}@freddagg.com

Pa$toral@freddagg.com

The answer is that they are all strictly valid though they might not be useable in practice.

Further discussion at:
Office-Watch.com



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  Friday, September 18, 2009 – Permalink –

Where da Store?

Pick your own location


If you need to change or just locate where Outlook stores its information:

"With Outlook closed, open Control Panel and double-click Mail. (Type Mail in the Search box.)
In the Mail Setup dialog box, click Data Files and then click Open Folder. This opens Windows Explorer using the folder where your Outlook Personal Stores (PST) file is located. The default name is Outlook.pst. Back up that file, which contains all your messages, rules, contacts, and appointments."




See more from Ed Bott:
Find your e-mail folder fast



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  Wednesday, September 09, 2009 – Permalink –

Delegate Sends

Fill the managers Sent file


Here's a trick that your manager may find helpful. Instead of asking if a note was sent, they’ll be able to find it in their own Sent Items folder.

When messages and meeting requests are sent by a delegate, on behalf of a manager, a copy of each item is saved in the delegate's Sent Items folder; this behavior is by design.

To save sent items to the manager's Sent Items folder and not the delegate's Sent Items folder, the delegate must be logged on as the manager. This may not be acceptable because of privacy or security concerns. By design, items that are sent by a delegate cannot appear in someone else's Sent Items folder.

A solution is for the manager to grant permissions to their Sent Items folder to the delegate. The delegate can then move or copy the items from their own Sent Items folder to the manager's Sent Items folder after they open the manager's mailbox as an additional mailbox. To do this:

  1. In the Folder List, right-click the Sent Items folder, and then click Properties.
  2. On the Permissions tab, click Add.
  3. Click to select the delegate from the address list, click Add, and then click OK.
  4. Click to select the newly added name, and then click to select the appropriate permission level. Note that the Non Editing Author option is the minimum permission to set.
  5. Click Apply, and then click OK. Repeat the previous steps for the Outlook Today root level folder.
The delegate can now copy or move items to the manager's Sent Items folder.

Microsoft.com:
Save items to a manager's Sent Items folder


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  Thursday, September 03, 2009 – Permalink –

Desktop Email Quickie

Click to create


If you need to send a note to someone on a regular basis, consider using a desktop shortcut.

Right click the Desktop and choose New>Shortcut.

Here is the command to enter in the "Type the location box".



mailto:doug@example.com,bill@example.com?subject=Centennial report&Body=This week's activities

EdBott.com:
Create instant e-mail messages

(I didn't find it necessary to add quotes to contain the spaces in the code.)



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  Thursday, August 27, 2009 – Permalink –

Link Up in Outlook

Let's get hyper


There can be more to creating a link than just typing the address


Any Internet address that you type into an Outlook message or other item becomes a hotlink that other Outlook users can use to get quickly to that resource.

For messages sent to non-Outlook users, the recipients' e-mail software determines whether the links are hot or not. Most e-mail software today supports hotlinks.

Just typing an Internet e-mail address does not create a hotlink that Outlook users can click on; you need to use the fully qualified URL with the mailto: or http:// prefix.


Slipstick.com:
Outlook Links

Outlook folders and items can also be added as hyperlinks in messages and other items.

Support.microsoft.com:
Using Hyperlinks to Access Outlook Folders and Items


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  Monday, August 24, 2009 – Permalink –

Find Someone's Email Address

Ether-like white pages


Finding a published landline phone number is pretty easy. Cell phones may be searchable in the future.

Here are directions on how to find an individual's email address.

There are some good hints, but remember that the first suggestion is to "Ask directly"


Finding List.

Email Lookup




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  Saturday, August 22, 2009 – Permalink –

Self Help

Get started in the right direction


The Office of Technology Services of Towson University, located in Towson, Md., provides Self-Help Training Documents for many applications.

They are available for many levels of knowledge. They’re clean, clear, and concise.
  • Access

  • Adobe Acrobat

  • Dreamweaver

  • Excel

  • FrontPage

  • Microsoft Office Tools

  • Outlook

  • Outlook Web Access

  • PowerPoint

  • Publisher

  • Visio

  • Windows

  • Word Art

  • Word
Tech Docs



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  Friday, August 21, 2009 – Permalink –

Search Folder Magic

Store searches


Messages are not stored in Search Folders. Search Folders are virtual folders that contain views of all e-mail items matching specific search criteria.

Search Folders display the results of previously defined search queries. The e-mail messages shown remain stored in one or more Outlook folders.

In Mail, in the Navigation Pane, there are three default Search Folders

  • For Follow Up,

    Any e-mail item with a flag appears in the For Follow Up Search Folder.


  • Large Mail,

    E-mail items that are larger than 100 kilobytes (KB) appear in the Large Mail Search Folder.
  • Unread Mail.
  • All unread e-mail items appear in the Unread Mail Search Folder.
Right click the Search folder icon to create a new Search folder.

When you create a Search Folder, you have a number of options to choose from, such as "Mail with attachments" or "Mail from specific people."

You can also create your own custom Search Folders, defining specific search criteria that e-mail messages must meet to be displayed in the Search Folder. Each Search Folder is a saved search that is kept up-to-date, monitoring all of your folders for any item that matches the search criteria of the Search Folder. When you delete a Search Folder, the e-mail messages shown in the Search Folder are not deleted, because those items are never saved, only viewed, in a Search Folder. However, if you open or select one or more e-mail messages shown in a Search Folder and delete the e-mail messages, the messages will be deleted from the Outlook folder where they are stored.


Office.microsoft.com:
 Search Folders





Outlook's search folders retain the results and remain up-to-date by adding new messages to the search folder as they arrive, provided you view the contents at least once every 8 days. If you use the folder less often, Outlook will need to rerun the search. Because Outlook has a limit of 20 search folders, use Advanced Find for less used searches. When you save the Advanced Find search, it's almost as fast and convenient as Search Folders. Advanced Find allows you to save the searches as Office Saved Searches (*.oss). Choose File, Save Search.

Once saved to your hard drive, you can copy them to any folder within Outlook, or drop it on the Outlook bar for easy access. To run the search, just double click on it.


Also:
Slipstick.com


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  Saturday, August 15, 2009 – Permalink –

Recover Deleted E-Mail

Probably not


If you accidently delete a piece of e-mail, or a folder, you can recover it in the Deleted items folder. If that folder has been emptied, you might have one more chance.


The following method works only on PSTs, when it works.

Things to remember:

This works under very limited circumstances
  • If the PST has begun compacting, it will likely fail
  • You're better off NOT emptying the deleted folder until you are sure you won't need the messages
  • Don't store messages in the folder unless you are sure the messages are trash
  • If, for some stupid reason you move items to the deleted folder and change your mind after emptying the Deleted Items folder, you may be able to recover the messages under very specific conditions.
Outlook-Tips.net
Recover Deleted Messages

Support.microsoft.com
How to recover items that have been hard deleted



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  Friday, August 07, 2009 – Permalink –

Send to All Your Friends

While you still have any


Hoax e-mail, at one time, threatened to overflow offices and homes with deleted electrons.
Some of the offers and "insights" seemed so real and they came from respected senders.

If you have doubts about claims that:

  • We should Boycott 7-11
  • That California Bill AB 2651 Outlaws Christian Foster Parents?
  • There are Formosan Termites in Mulch from New Orleans?
  • Bush won an honest election
Or any other spam claims, take a look at:

BreaktheChain.org

Another spot to check is:

Snopes.com



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  Friday, July 31, 2009 – Permalink –

Delete Days

Erase the future


If the need should arise to clean out your calendar and start fresh, here's how.
You don't have to erase all appointments. You can choose which groups deserve oblivion.

For Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
  1. Start Outlook 2003, and then click your Calendar folder.

  2. On the View menu, point to Arrange By, click Current View, and then click By Category.

  3. On the View menu, point to Expand/Collapse Groups, and then click Collapse All.

  4. In the Table pane, right-click each category, and then click Delete. This deletes every item that belongs to each category.
After you delete all of the items in all of the categories, the Calendar folder is empty.
How to delete all Outlook Calendar items
Outlook 2007 appears to work the same way:




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  Saturday, July 25, 2009 – Permalink –

Multiple Mail Drag

Quick trick


To send an e-mail message to a number of people in your Contacts file, hold down the CTRL key and select the individual recipients.

Drag the selection to the Inbox icon on the Outlook bar.

A new blank pre-addressed e-mail form will open for you.

If you wish to schedule an appointment, drag the selection to the Calendar icon.

The definitive site for more information about Outlook is:

Slipstick.com



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  Wednesday, July 15, 2009 – Permalink –

Restore Defaults

Office 2003 redo


To reset the original settings in Office 2003, follow these steps.
Make sure that you back up your files before you follow these steps.
  1. 1. Start any Office 2003 program.
  2. On Help menu, click Detect and Repair.



  3. Click to select the Discard my customized settings and restore default settings check box, and then click Start.
  4. Quit the application, and then click Ignore.
  5. Click OK when you receive the following message:
    Reset of setting to default succeed.

Microsoft Office Diagnostics in 2007 replaces Diagnose and Repair:

Howtogeek.com


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  Friday, July 10, 2009 – Permalink –

Delegate Delete Deliveries

Choose the folder


When you delete items from a Mailbox folder of another user where you have deletion privileges, the deleted items go into your Deleted Items folder rather than that of the mailbox owner.

Here are the steps to change that procedure:


Exit and Logoff Outlook

  1. Click Start, and then click Run
  2. Type regedit, and then click OK
  3. Locate the registry key that is appropriate for your version of Outlook
    For Outlook 2003:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\General
    (Use 12.0 for 2007 etc.)
  4. Right-click the DelegateWastebasketStyle value, and then click Modify

    If the key is not present, use the following steps to create it:
    1. Right-click the General folder
    2. Point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
    3. Type DelegateWastebasketStyle, and then press ENTER

    4. Change the value data in the Edit DWORD Value dialog box to one of the following values:
      8 = Stores deleted items in your folder
      4 = Stores deleted items in the mailbox owner's folder

      NOTE: Make sure that the delegate user has at least Author level rights for the Deleted Items folder of the owner's mailbox.
  5. Quit the Registry Editor
  6. Restart Outlook
Support.microsoft.com:
Items deleted from a shared mailbox go to the wrong folder in Outlook


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  Saturday, July 04, 2009 – Permalink –

Get Hooked Up

Link to apps in Outlook


The Outlook bar is handy to jump from Mail to Contacts to Calendars, but you can do more with it.

If you can locate the EXE of a program, it can be dragged to the Outlook bar to create a shortcut.

Here is a collection of more things that can be done with hyperlinks.

Slipstick.com:
Using Microsoft Outlook Links


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  Sunday, June 28, 2009 – Permalink –

30 Days Hath

One Day at a Time


Here's how to add a calendar to your web page.


Publishing Outlook Calendars on the Internet or an Intranet
(From THE definitive Outlook/Exchange site - Slipstick.com.)

Other methods:

Htmlgoodies.com
It's actually just a simple table with a couple of additions. (free)

HTMLCal
HTMLCAL is a Web calendar maker and editor that lets you maintain a group calendar for your Web site or intranet.
This software will let you maintain live calendars on your site that anyone can view or update from any Web browser. ($25)

Htmlcalendar.com
HTML Calendar Maker Pro was designed with ease of use in mind. Now you can type your events quickly and easily and they will be transformed into a customized and professional monthly calendar within seconds. Simply follow the on-screen tutorial to create your calendar and then place the finished web page on your site. It's perfect for planning for the weeks ahead or noting past historic events. ($26.50 +)

All about Calendars by:

Claus Tøndering


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  Tuesday, June 23, 2009 – Permalink –

Mail Your MDB-ACDB

Don't let Outlook stop you


There was a lot of frustration with Outlook 200x. If an Access MDB file is received, Outlook expects the worst and blocks the attachment.

The trick has been to ZIP the file or change the extension to something like .DAT.

Here's a registry trick that restores Outlook to the good old days.
Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and Outlook 2000 SP3 allow the user to use a registry key to open up access to blocked attachments. (Always make a backup before editing the registry.) To use this key:
  1. Run Regedit, and go to this key:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security 

    (change 10.0 to 9.0 for Outlook 2000 SP3,11.0 for Outlook 2003, 12.0 for Outlook 2007)
  2. Under that key, add a new string value named Level1Remove.

  3. For the value for Level1Remove, enter a semicolon-delimited list of file extensions. For example, entering this:

    .mdb;.url

    would unblock Microsoft Access files and Internet shortcuts. Note that the use of a leading dot was not previously required, however, new security patches may require it. If you are using "mdb;url" format and extensions are blocked, add a dot to each extension.
    Note also that there is not a space between extensions.
 

If you are using this registry entry, a glance at Help>About Microsoft Outlook will show Security Mode: User Controlled above the license information.
After applying this registry fix or using one of the above tools, the user still has to save the attached file to a system drive before opening it. In effect, the fix rolls the attachment behavior back to Outlook 2000 SR-1, with its included Attachment Security Fix.
An end-user cannot bypass this "save to disk" behavior and open the file directly from the mail message, though an Exchange administrator can.
Slipstick.com:

Opening .exe Attachments

Also see:
Shortcuts for Sending Access Objects via Email

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  Tuesday, June 16, 2009 – Permalink –

Resend on Behalf

Alternate to Forward


Let's say you get a message that you would like to forward, but you don't necessarily want to take "ownership."

  1. Open the message in its own window

  2. Go to Actions>Resend This Message
    (Other Actions in 2007)
  3. When you click Send, you will be reminded that you are not the original sender of the message

  4. Click OK
The message will be from you, "on behalf of" the original sender.
IMPORTANT: If the recipient clicks the Reply button, his message will go to the original sender, not to you.



Thanks to Ed Bott for pointing this out,

EdBott.com

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  Tuesday, June 09, 2009 – Permalink –

Netiquette - Etiquette

Why do you need email etiquette?


A company needs to implement etiquette rules for the following three reasons:
  • Professionalism: by using proper email language your company will convey a professional image.

  • Efficiency: emails that get to the point are much more effective than poorly worded emails.

  • Protection from liability: employee awareness of email risks will protect your company from costly law suits.
If you need to formulate a policy for your company, here are some suggestions:

32 of the most important email etiquette tips

Netiquette — Yale

Career Planning — About

E-mail Etiquette (Netiquette) — Chris Pirillo

Netiquette — Virginia Shea

Spam Is Not the Worst of It


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  Wednesday, June 03, 2009 – Permalink –

Reading Pain

It's not my glasses, the print's too small!


Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen Blog "Thoughts on .Net, Web Services, and Life" had this entry about Outlook:


Changing the Font Size of the Reading Pane in Outlook: Impossible?

"Is it sadder that:
  • You can only change the font size for the Reading Pane in Outlook 2003 by right clicking the tiny grey border around the Reading Pane.
  • When you do click the menu item then move to another email, the option switches back to Medium for the next message.
  • The menu items have no effect (the font sizes don't change) on 90% of corporate mail including RTF and WordMail.
Is this totally broken or am I totally broken?"
I can't find a way to make the change permanent either, but:
Some users prefer the better visibility of a larger font size for reading their messages in the Reading or "preview" pane. You can make the text or font in the pane larger or smaller by using the scroll wheel on your mouse. Using the scroll wheel is the only way you can change the text size, although more options are being considered for a future version of Outlook.
Use the Reading Pane, highlighted in red, to preview your messages without having to open them. Click in the Reading Pane, press CTRL, and roll the scroll wheel. Rolling the wheel away from you makes the text bigger, rolling it towards you makes the text smaller.

Note The text size doesn't persist when you change views. If you go to your Calendar, for example, or another mail folder like Sent Items, the text goes back to the default size.
For information about the OL interface, see Slipstick.com.

 Managing the Outlook Interface


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  Saturday, May 16, 2009 – Permalink –

Delete It and Mean It

Turn off the questioning


Deleting an item in Outlook sends it to the Deleted Items folder. If you're sure that you want to eradicate the note, you can hold the Shift key when you delete an item.

You will receive a dialog asking if you are sure you want to permanently delete it.

To avoid the nagging you can turn off "Warn before permanently deleting items" under Tools>Options>Other>Advanced Options.



Be careful because you can delete items that might have benefited from one more moment's consideration.

(If you're using an Exchange server, you can probably get it back)



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  Saturday, May 02, 2009 – Permalink –

4-1-9

Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud



The Advance Fee Fraud (AFF) is known internationally as "4-1-9" fraud after the section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes.
(BTW, it is pronounced 4-1-9, not four-nineteen.)

You've most probably been approached via email to help some poor soul smuggle millions out of some war torn province in return for a generous finder's fee.
"A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million of his family's fortune on a Nigeria Internet scam, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his son.

The son, also an Orange County doctor, said his father - Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk - gave as much as $3 million over a 10-year period in response to an Internet plea that promised the doctor a generous cut of a huge sum of cash trapped in African bank accounts in exchange for money advances.

Gottschalk - who at 89 still works at the UCI campus medical plaza that bears his name - said in court papers that the losses were caused by "some bad investments."

Guy Gottschalk is asking a judge to remove his father as administrator of the $8-million family partnership that was set up for tax purposes after the death of his mother in 1993. A hearing is set for March 14.

The suit alleges that Louis Gottschalk destroyed bank records to cover up the amount of his losses.

"While it seems unlikely, even ludicrous, that a highly educated doctor like [Gottschalk] would fall prey to such an obvious con, that is exactly what happened," wrote Guy Gottschalk's attorney in court papers."

LA Times March 2, 2006

If your willing to take the risk, here is a site that baits the scammers.

419Eater.com


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  Saturday, April 25, 2009 – Permalink –

Change Categories

Fit people into the right peg hole



Go to View>Arrange by>Current View and select by Category.
(View>Customize Curent View)

You can create a new Category and then just select Contacts and drag them into the right slot.

This technique works with any Outlook item for many Outlook fields, including Private and Company but won't work on fields that aren't editable. You can use it to add Categories but not remove them.
  1. Make sure at least one item has the new field value.
  2. Create a new view or edit one of the existing group by views to group by the field you want to change
  3. Apply the view.
  4. Select one or more items from the other groups and drag them to the new group and drop.
Slipstick.com:
Group By



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  Friday, April 17, 2009 – Permalink –

Where Do You Store Your Spam?

It's Your Mess, Clean It Up


Previous versions of Outlook can handle PST files just this side of 2 GB (1.82) and Outlook 2003+ can go up to about 20-30 gigs with the new MSUPST format. However, very few administrators are going to allow users to save anywhere near that amount of information.

Outlook does have a tool to managing the size of the mailbox from within Outlook:

  1. Go to the Tools menu
  2. Select "Mailbox Cleanup"

This dialog includes quick links to find large items of a chosen size and items older than a selected number of days. You can view the size of folders, fine tune AutoArchive and empty the deleted items folder. [Edited entry from 2/1219/2006] See all Topics

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  Thursday, April 09, 2009 – Permalink –

Excel-lent E-Mail

Outlook, Excel, and VBA


Ron de Bruin, Microsoft MVP - Excel, has put together a collection of VBA routines to make Excel e-mail friendly.

See if these topics tempt you:

Example Code for sending mail from Excel
  • Mail Workbook
  • Mail one Sheet
  • Mail more than one Sheet
  • Mail the Selection or range
  • Mail Every Worksheet with Address in cell A1
  • Mail sheet or sheets to one or more people
  • Mail range or sheet in the body of the mail (Send personalized email)
  • Mail a message to each person in a range with Outlook
  • Mail a message to each person in a range with CDO (no security warnings)
  • Sending a different file to each person in a range with Outlook
  • Zip the ActiveWorkbook and mail it with Outlook
  • Security (Prevent displaying the dialog to Send or not Send)


Also Download Addins for Excel e-mail information

Also see:

John Walkenbach:
Sending Personalized Email from Excel


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  Wednesday, April 01, 2009 – Permalink –

Flag That Play

Dog ear your email


With RSS entries, I average 500 or more messages a day. Here's a suggestion about how to tame the problem.
"You clear up one problem and delete the e-mail message -- and meanwhile six others pop up in your Inbox. Microsoft Office Outlook can flag messages with priorities, set reminders, and flag messages for follow-up, so that you can glance quickly at Outlook and know immediately what needs to get done first."


Office.Microsoft.com:
Demo: Organize your e-mail more easily than ever



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  Tuesday, March 24, 2009 – Permalink –

BCC, not your old CC

Avoid header spaghetti


There are three parts to the Address section of an email message:
  • To:
  • CC:
  • BCC:
CC used to stand for Carbon Copy, but no one knows what carbon paper is anymore so it is now referred to as Complimentary Copy. BCC is for a blind copy. Recipients will not see that stringy pasta list of names. Here are a few links to more information.

About.com:
Sending an Email to Multiple Recipients - Cc: and Bcc:

Hamra.net:
Use BCC field when addressing mass mail

Actrix.co.nz:
Using the CC and BCC Fields in E-mail

While the recipients can't see the Bcc list, you can see the list in messages you SENT:
"To see the Bcc addresses for messages that you sent, open the message from the Sent Items folder, then choose Actions>Resend This Message. If you don't see the Bcc box, choose Find>Bcc Field to display it. Another method you can use in the Sent Items folder, is to choose View>Show Fields and add the Bcc field to the current view. You may not be able to see all Bcc recipients that way if the list was a long one.
Slipstick.com:
 To view Bcc addresses for sent messages


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  Saturday, March 14, 2009 – Permalink –

Email Headers

How to read the code


Spam is as ubiquitous in email as it is in an Hawaiian restaurant.

These links may help you distinguish pork shoulder from the other stuff.


"This document is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the behavior of email headers.

It is primarily intended to help victims of unsolicited email ("email spam") attempting to determine the real source of the (generally forged) email that plagues them; it should also help in attempts to understand any other forged email.
It may also be beneficial to readers interested in a general-purpose introduction to mail transfer on the Internet. "


StopSpam.org:
E-mail Headers


"The ability to read and decipher email headers is a useful skill to learn for tracing messages to their original source and diagnosing many other problems. Headers may contain a lot of information but the most important information will always be contained in every email header."





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  Friday, February 27, 2009 – Permalink –

Yeah, Sure, That's My Email

A lie will set you free


Dodgeit.com allows you to create throwaway email addresses. It then delivers the email that comes into the resulting mailbox as an RSS feed that you and everyone else who can guess at your throwaway email address can read.

Pick a throwaway address, say: NotMyAddress@dodgeit.com Give that address out to inconsequential sites.

Check NotMyAddress from homepage of Dodgeit.com.

Subscribe to an RSS feed to keep an eye on the mailbox.


Also see:
Protect Your Address

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  Thursday, February 19, 2009 – Permalink –

Protect Your Address

Keep the bots at bay


"Spam is an incredible problem and it is getting worse - your e-mail address is a commodity and if you put it on a web page, it WILL eventually be found, spammed and sold to other spammers. The problem is that you have a web page and you need to make it possible for people to send you e-mail from your page but you don't want to get bombarded with spam - what can you do?

First you need to understand what is likely to happen. The most likely scenario is that an e-mail harvesting robot will find your page and look though it trying to find e-mail addresses. This robot may be programmed to look for a particular list of possible characters on either side of the @ in your e-mail address or it may look for the "mailto:" in your e-mail link or any number of other tricks."


MailMe
PHP Form Mailer With Spam Blocking


<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin user = "myaddress"; domain = "mydomain"; document.write('<a href="\">');
document.write(user + '@' + domain + '</a>');
// End -->
</script>
<noscript>
Here goes some text that can be seen if Javascript is disabled.
</noscript>

Also:

Mailto script
a simple little Mailto: script that allows you to choose who you want to email from a pull down menu
(View source for code)


Software Listing: Mailto
Mailcrawlers and protectors


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The following website creates a script for you to encode your email address. It is called the enoder.

http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form

 
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  Thursday, February 12, 2009 – Permalink –

Digitally Sign

Messages

If you have a need to protect the contents of your email messages, these links should point you in the right direction.


Outlook supports the following features for cryptographic messaging:
Digitally sign an e-mail message. Digital signing provides nonrepudiation and verification of contents (the message contains what the person sent, with no changes).

Encrypt an e-mail message. Encryption helps to ensure privacy by making the message unreadable to anyone other than the intended recipient.

There are additional features that can be configured for Outlook 2003 for security-enhanced messaging, if your organization chooses to provide support for them, including:

Sending an e-mail message with an S/MIME receipt request. This helps to verify that the recipient is validating your digital signature (the certificate you applied to a message).

Adding a security label to an e-mail message. Your organization can create a customized S/MIME V3 security policy which can add labels to messages. An S/MIME V3 security policy is code that you add to Outlook that runs automatically to add information to the message header about the sensitivity of the message content. For example, an Internal Use Only label might be applied to mail that should not be sent or forwarded outside of your company.



Overview of Cryptography in Outlook 2003


Free digital ids

Slipstick.com:
Encryption and Message Security Tools

TheTechGap.com:
Digital IDs in Outlook

Verisign:
Digital IDs

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  Sunday, February 01, 2009 – Permalink –

MailTo Shortcut

Just a quick note


You can create a shortcut on your desk top that will start or switch to your default email application. You can also fill in parts of the message if you want.

Right-click an empty spot on the desktop and choose New>Shortcut.
In the box that says "Type the location of the item", enter something like:

mailto:All@Once.com.



The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has some other entries you may want to try. They are intended as HTML hyperlink references, but some of them work as shortcuts too.
MailTo

Outfront.net also has some information:
Getting More From 'mailto'

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  Sunday, January 25, 2009 – Permalink –

Email Icons

Foil the spoilers


If you include an email address it can be read be the evil robot of the web.
Nexodyne.com will create a free email icon graphic to be used in place of a mail hyperlink.



You could also use this piece of Javascript to avoid R2D2.

(user in this case would be "MyJunkMail.Place"
mydomain would be "Gmail.com")


<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
user = "myaddress";
domain = "mydomain";
document.write('<a href=\"mai' + 'lto:' + user + '@' + domain + '\">');
document.write(user + '@' + domain + '</a>');
// End -->
</script>
<noscript>
Here goes some text that can be seen if Javascript is disabled.
</noscript>


(from SB Projects.com)

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  Sunday, January 11, 2009 – Permalink –

PayPal - Phishing

A tutorial


As part of a series on Identity Protection Resources, PayPal has a section on Spoofing or Phishing.

"Many spoof emails look very real. While there are some telltale signs, it can often be difficult to identify fake emails. Whenever you get an email about your PayPal account, the safest and easiest course of action is to open your browser and log in to your PayPal account directly without clicking any links in the email.

Warning signs that an email about your PayPal account are fake include a generic greeting, a false sense of urgency, and links that don't include "https://www.paypal.com" immediately before the first "/".


Spoof Tutorial

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  Tuesday, December 30, 2008 – Permalink –

Spam - A How to Guide

Why let the sleaze balls have all the fun?


We've traded garbage cans full of unsolicited mail for full blocked or deleted bins.

Here is a site that has information on stopping the bad guys, including information from their perspective.

  • Spam Archives

    "A number of far-sighted people have been saving all their spam and have put it online. This is a valuable resource for anyone writing Bayesian filters."

  • How to Spam

    "The links on this page are to companies that provide the infrastructure of spam. It's fairly disgusting reading, but a quick scan will give you some ideas about filtering."

  • Spammers' Stories

    "These articles about spammers are very helpful in understanding how to stop spam. For example, complaining to the ISPs that spammers use does seem to inconvenience them.

    And best of all, so does filtering. In one article below, a spammer complains that filters have increased his costs 1,000-fold. That's exactly what we want to hear. New laws and policies may stop spam. Making it unprofitable certainly will."

  • Better Bayesian Filtering
  • Filters that Fight Back
  • Will Filters Kill Spam?
  • Filters vs. Blacklists
  • Filtering Research
  • Spam Resources
  • Spam Links

PaulGraham.com: Anti Spam (Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer) [Edited entry from 10/28/2005] See all Topics

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  Friday, December 26, 2008 – Permalink –

Icons - Itsy Bitsy Indicators

Icons — Itsy Bitsy Indicators


What those little graphics mean

There's not much room in an Outlook icon to communicate information.

Robert Sparnaaij, MVP-Outlook, has put together a legend of these tiny pictures with their meanings.

Such as:

What Do The Icons Mean?
For more information see his web site:
How to Outlook

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  Monday, December 22, 2008 – Permalink –

Shipping Status

Track UPS and FedEx

With eBay and Amazon, packages are flying across the country 24 hours a day, locating a shipment can be important.
This free Outlook add-in combines with Outlook's calendar to follow the path of an order.
"Parcel Tracker is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that automatically synchronizes an appointment item with a shipping service enabling you to track your package delivery / status directly from the Outlook's calendar.

Parcel Tracer tracks the status and delivery of UPS and FedEx shipments using the Outlook calendar.

On a timed interval, Parcel Tracker will automatically update the status AND placement of the delivery appointment in your calendar using tracking information retrieved directly from the selected shipping service. You can track your package via its schedule delivery date OR the most recent activity.

Parcel Tracker
By David Levinson



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  Sunday, December 07, 2008 – Permalink –

Match Template to Account

Set your identity



If you have multiple email accounts you can use a different template for each account.

After creating the template, assigning it to an account and saving it, you can assign the template to a button.




Click the button and the selected template will appear using the assigned account to send the message.

Slipstick provides screenshots and detailed instructions.


Create a Template With the Account Selected



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  Friday, November 28, 2008 – Permalink –

Dynamic Distribution Lists

Group the contacts



If you want to send an email to a list, but omit a few of its members, Click on the plus sign next to the distribution name. Click OK to expand the list and remove members who you do not want to receive the email.

Rather than creating and updating a distribution list as a list of names, you could use Categories.

To add or remove names from a mailing list, just add the category or remove it from the contacts form. If an email address changes, only the contact form, not the distribution lists needs to be updated.

Send a message or meeting request to the group or create appointments or tasks, by opening the Contacts folder and use the Group By Category view and select the desired group.

Choose the desired action from the Actions menu.

The drawback here is that all of the names will be displayed on the To: line. They can, of course be cut and pasted to the BBC: line.

From Diane Poremsky's Outlook Tips website


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  Thursday, November 20, 2008 – Permalink –

Calendar on the Web

Exchange not required


Outlook has made it possible to share your calendar on the Internet as a web page.

  1. Click Calendar.
  2. On the File menu, click Save as Web Page.
  3. Under Duration, set the Start date and End date.
  4. Under Options, set the options you want.
    (Show appointment details, use a background graphic)
  5. Under Save as, type the calendar name, and then specify the Web page file name and the path where you want to place the calendar.
  6. Click Save.


Add an Outlook calendar to a Web page


Here's a step by step pictorial:

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center:
Publishing an Outlook Calendar to the Web

Also:
Sliptick.com:
Publishing Outlook Calendars on the Internet or an Intranet

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  Wednesday, November 12, 2008 – Permalink –

Security Prompt

Avoid the warning


"A program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf. Do you want to allow this?"

or:



This is the result of a security update in Outlook 2000+.

Here's how to get out of the problem:

Express ClickYes

. . ."a tiny program that sits in the taskbar and clicks the Yes button on behalf of you, when Outlook's Security Guard opens prompt dialog saying that a program is trying to send an email with Outlook or access its address book. You can suspend/resume it by double-clicking its taskbar icon. Developers can automate its behavior by sending special messages."


Also see:

Automation Security from Slipstick.com

Outlook Email Security

Administrative Options for the Outlook E-mail Security Update


[Edited entry from 8/21/2005]



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  Friday, October 31, 2008 – Permalink –

Desktop Alert

Fix the timing




You can set the length of time a desktop alert appears, by going to:
  • Tools>Options menu
  • Email Options
  • Advanced
  • Desktop Alerts Setting




How to Use the Desktop Alert Feature

The maximum time is 30 seconds. If, for some reason, you want the alert to stay up longer, you can edit the registry.

Run Regedit and go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\DesktopAlerts

Add a TimeOn DWORD key (if not already present) and set a value in milliseconds, up to 4 billion worth (50 days.)
One day is 86,400,000.

This hint comes from OutlookTips.net:
Daily Tips

[Edited entry from 8/5/2005]


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  Saturday, October 25, 2008 – Permalink –

Fix the PST

Free toolkit



"If you can't open your Personal Folders file (.pst) or your Offline Folder file (.ost), or you suspect that your .pst or .ost data file is corrupt, you can use the Inbox Repair tool (Scanpst.exe), to diagnose and repair errors in the file.

  1. Quit Microsoft Outlook if it's running.

  2. Double-click Scanpst.exe, located at drive:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\LocaleID folder - where LocaleID is the locale identifier (LCID) for the installation of Microsoft Office. The LCID for English - United States is 1033.

  3. In the Enter the name of the file you want to scan box, enter the name of the .pst or .ost file that you want to check, or click Browse to look for the file.

  4. To specify scan log options, click Options, and then click the option you want.

  5. Click Start.

  6. When the scanning is completed, and if errors were found, you will be prompted to start the repair process.

  7. To change the name or location of the backup file created during the repair process, in the Enter name of backup file box, enter a new name, or click Browse to look for the file.

  8. Click Repair.

  9. Start Outlook using the profile that contains the .pst file that you tried to repair.

  10. On the Go menu, click Folder List.

In the Folder List, you may see a Recovered Personal Folders folder containing default Outlook folders or a Lost and Found folder. The recovered folders are usually empty, because this is a rebuilt .pst file. The Lost and Found folder contains folders and items that the Inbox Repair tool recovered. Items that are missing from the Lost and Found folder cannot be repaired.

If you see a Recovered Personal Folders folder, you can create a new .pst file, and then drag the items in the Lost and Found folder into the new .pst file. When you have finished moving all items, you can remove the Recovered Personal Folders (.pst) file, including the Lost and Found folder, from your profile."


Use the Inbox Repair tool


Recover e-mail messages in Outlook 2002, 2003, 2007

Slipstick.com:
To repair a damaged Personal Folders PST file

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I heard a popular Outlook recovery tool called Advanced Outlook Repair is also availabe for repairing your PST file. It is a powerful tool to recover messages, folders and other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook PST files.
 
Try-repair microsoft Outlook,because this tool helped me in similar situations,and yet is free as how as i know,program recovering lost Microsoft Outlook data is a sequence of operations involving scanning, identifying and saving such Microsoft Outlook items as messages, contacts, notes, reminders, journals, meetings, etc, recover data when a *.pst file completely or partially stops functioning, for example, it becomes completely or partially unreadable because of other applications, antivirus software or power failures,it scans, identifies and saves data from the pst file without modifying or indexing the source pst file,can save various Microsoft Outlook items as separate files with the .eml, .vcf and .txt extensions,reading data from files created in Microsoft Outlook versions 97, 98, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003, 2007 and saving recovered data in the format of Microsoft Outlook versions 97, 98, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003, 2007.
 
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Microsoft offers the Inbox Repair Tool to correct most of the issues with corrupted PST (Personal Storage) file. Although it is not always capable of handling PST Corruption and your PST file remains inaccessible. To handle such cases, you may try third party PST Repair software such as Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair.
 
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  Tuesday, October 21, 2008 – Permalink –

Survey Forms

Questionnaires and queries


You don't necessarily need special survey software to put out inquires.
These add-ins will let you produce an email survey.


RSVME.com :

"RSVME is a free application that integrates with Outlook and other email packages, and makes obtaining feedback from people a snap! You can quickly and easily put together a questionnaire on any subject, from the best time for soccer practice to who's bringing what food to a party. Then select names out of your address book you want to send the questionnaire to, and send. It's that simple! As your friends get your email and answer your questionnaire, you get the response back in one simple-to-read report"


OutlookCode.com:
Survey Sample Form

"This Microsoft Outlook sample message form by Scott Bradley makes it easy to create surveys. Instead of building a different form for each survey you need to conduct, you can use this single form to create many different types of surveys. It supports five different types of questions:
  • Simple text
  • Yes/No
  • Five-level agree scale from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree
  • 1 to 10 (user enters a number)
  • Multiple choice (up to five choices)

When the user receives the survey, the form uses a wizard-like format to display the questions one at a time and allow the user to go back and change answers. The form returns responses to the sender in both Q&A and comma-delimited formats and then deletes the survey item."



Easy Survey :
(This one is shareware. I included it because it integrates Outlook and Access)

"Easy Survey uses Microsoft Access for its form creation. It allows the user to make the survey form quickly and simply. All you have to do is create the essential tables in Microsoft Access and then the Form for the survey based on these tables. After that the Easy Survey Wizard will help you to make a "Survey Project" which you can use in Microsoft Outlook."



Also see:


Custom Forms

How to Simulate More Than Two Form Interfaces

Troubleshooting forms [Outlook 2003 Forms Help]

One free web based survey site is PollHost.com


[Edited entry from 7/19/2005]




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Not sure if it's OK to post non-Office stuff here, so please delete this if I am overstepping. But the Alpha Five database makes it REALLY easy to do e-mail or Web-based surveys, and it uses the Office 2003 user interface. If you know Excel, you'll find ALpha Five really easy to use. Trial version is free to use for 30 days, and provides all features.
Thanks.
Richard Rabins
Alpha Software
http://blog.alphasoftware.com

 
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  Thursday, October 16, 2008 – Permalink –

Custom Dictionary

Spell it the way you want to!


Although Office has its own dictionary, it probably does not contain all the words and jargon that you use. If this is the case, you can add your own frequently used terms, and names to the dictionary.

  1. Open Word
  2. From the Tools menu, click Options
    (See link below for 2007)
  3. Select the Spelling and Grammar tab
  4. Click the Custom Dictionaries button
  5. Place a check beside the dictionary you want to modify
  6. Click the Modify button
  7. In the Word field, type in the word you want to add to the dictionary and click the Add button Click OK
  8. Click OK to close the Custom Dictionaries dialog box
  9. Click OK to close the Options dialog box


If you want to remove a word from the dictionary, complete steps 1 through 7. Select the word you want to remove and click the Delete button.


The Custom.dic file is a text file. You can create it or edit it using notepad.


Multiple dictionaries can be created for special purposes, like a list of employee names.


The Custom.dic file is used by all of the Office applications that do Spell checking.


How to add a custom dictionary in Word


About.com:

Working With Dictionaries in Word

Microsoft.com

How to create an exclude dictionary in Word

Copy the Custom Dictionary to a Floppy Disk and Use It on Other Computers

Error when you add a word to the custom dictionary

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  Monday, October 13, 2008 – Permalink –

Attachment Virus

Get over the attachment


"Many of the most common computer viruses and other malicious software are spread through e-mail attachments. If a file attached to an e-mail message contains a virus, it's often launched when you open the file attachment. No matter what e-mail program you use or what version of Windows you're running, you can help avoid some viruses by following a few basic rules. If you use the latest version of Outlook or Outlook Express and if you use the latest version of Windows, there are a few unique enhancements and default settings to help keep you from accidentally infecting your computer with a virus.
  • 5 tips for dealing with e-mail attachments
  • Dealing with e-mail attachments in Microsoft Outlook
  • Dealing with e-mail attachments in Outlook Express"


Help avoid computer viruses that spread through e-mail

Also:

Microsoft video:
Defending against viruses and worms

Slipstick.com:
Protecting Microsoft Outlook against Viruses
Viruses Affecting Microsoft Outlook




[Edited entry from 7/12/2005]



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  Saturday, September 27, 2008 – Permalink –

Forward My Mail

Let it follow you around



By using a rule that you create, Outlook can examine each message that you receive for certain characteristics and then automatically forward or redirect any message that matches the characteristics to another e-mail account.


There are a couple of ways of doing it: forwarding and redirecting.

Message forwarding

When a rule automatically forwards a message you receive, it leaves a copy of the message in your Inbox or in the folder to which the message was originally delivered. The rule then adds the designation "FW:" to the beginning of the Subject line, changes the message formatting, and then forwards the message to the account specified by the rule. The recipient represented by the account also sees that the message came from you.

Message redirection

When a rule automatically redirects a message you receive, it also leaves a copy in your Inbox or in the folder to which the message was originally delivered. The rule then sends the message, unchanged, to the account specified by the rule. To the recipient, the message appears as though it came directly from the original sender. There is no indication that the message was delivered by way of your account.


Indiana University:
Automatically forward all of my mail to another address

Also:

Office.Microsoft.com:
Automatically forward messages to another e-mail account

James S. Huggins' Refrigerator Door has this information:
Creating Another Email Address

Slipstick.com:
Automatic Message Processing Tools

[Edited entry from 6/19/2005]



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  Saturday, September 20, 2008 – Permalink –

Spam Definitions

and Other E-mail Pests


The Very Basics:

  • Keep your e-mail address private.
  • Never reply to spam.
  • Use great caution in complaining.
  • Never buy products advertised in spam.
  • Don't forward chain mail.
  • Your bank never asks you to "confirm" your account!


Getting Rid of "Spam", a Spam Primer
by Randy Cassingham
The basics of spam, how they got your address in the first place, and what to do now.


Cassingham also publishes This is True and The Stella Awards .
(The name "Stella Award" has been applied to any wild, outrageous, or ridiculous lawsuits -- including bogus cases )


Also:
Spam Abuse.net

Spam Laws.com
David E. Sorkin

  • United States
  • European Union
  • Other countries


The Spam Weblog


Federal Trade Commission:
Operation Spam Zombies

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  Sunday, September 07, 2008 – Permalink –

Appointment to Email

Drag and drop


When you receive a message about an upcoming meeting, you don't have to copy the address and time and then open Calendar and then open a new appointment dialog box.

Just drag the message onto the Calendar icon. A new appointment form will open up with the body of the email. You can then adjust the location and time if needed.


Also see:
Microsoft support:
How to use vCalendar in Outlook

"Microsoft Outlook supports vCalendar, a powerful approach to electronic Personal Data Interchange (PDI). PDI occurs every time individuals communicate, in either a business or personal context. These interchanges frequently include the exchange of information, such as business cards, telephone numbers, addresses, dates and times of appointments, and such. The vCard and vCalendar features facilitate PDI electronically.
This article discusses:
  • How to create a vCalendar file
  • How to distribute a vCalendar file
  • How to automatically process a vCalendar file
  • How to manually process a vCalendar file as a text file"


And:
The Internet Mail Consortium:
vCard and vCalendar

Also See:
Meeting Methods


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  Monday, September 01, 2008 – Permalink –

Calendar Help and Tips

More answers


Malek Tips.com has tips on a myriad of PC topics.
Here are the titles of a few of their Outlook hints:


Start your Calendar Work Week on Monday

If you work a Monday to Friday job, shouldn't Microsoft Outlook's Calendar work the same way?

Keep Others From Suggesting Appointment Times

Keep others from trying to change the times of your appointments in Microsoft Outlook.

Keep Meeting Requests from Being Deleted

File your Microsoft Outlook 2003 meeting requests instead of automatically deleting them.

Change the Calendar Workweek

Let Outlook 2003's "Work Week" view represent your actual workweek, not a M-F schedule.

Drag and Drop Events

Quickly move appointments and meetings from one day to another in the Outlook 2003 Calendar.

Play Different Sounds Per Appointment

Aurally note when different appointments and meetings occur with Outlook 2003.

Publish More Free/Busy Information

Allow other networked Outlook 2003 users to see when you are free for a meeting request months from now.

Outlook 2003 Calendar and Meeting Help and Tips


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  Wednesday, August 27, 2008 – Permalink –

Stop Auto Fill-in

Do your own


Here's how to stop Outlook from automatically filling in the e-mail address when typing the name of a contact in the To: field.

Outlook's Suggest Names feature helps speed up routine e-mail activities. However you may want to get rid of it when, for instance, you have two or more e-mail addresses that are similar and Outlook keeps choosing the wrong one.

To turn this feature off:

  1. Select Options from Outlook's Tools menu

  2. Click on the Preferences tab

  3. Clickthe E-mail Options button

  4. Click the Advanced E-mail Options button

  5. Uncheck the box, near the bottom of the dialog, labeled:
    "Suggest names while completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields"



Also see:

Office Clues:
Lambton College
Sarnia, Ontario

Using Outlook's AutoComplete feature


From Slipstick.com:
Suggest names doesn't work?

If Auto Suggest and name checking is not working, rename the *.NK2 file. Outlook will create a new one. You can rename or delete the NK2 file if you want to get rid of all addresses in your autocomplete file.


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  Sunday, August 10, 2008 – Permalink –

Holidays

Invent your own



Microsoft Outlook has a built-in feature to add holidays from different countries and religions to your default Calendar folder. You can add holidays to your Calendar folder by following these steps:
  1. Choose Tools>Options, then click Calendar Options

  2. On the Calendar Options dialog box, click Add Holidays

  3. In the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog box, check the countries or religions whose holidays you want to add, then click OK



For Outlook 2000 and earlier versions, the list of holidays is stored in a text file named Outlook.txt, found in the language specific subfolders of the Office folder.
Starting with Outlook 2002, the file is named Outlook.hol.

If you are setting up a company-wide deployment of Outlook, you may want to edit this file in Notepad to add your own holidays, remove lists that you don't want users to import, or correct dates that Microsoft got wrong.

For more information about Outlook holidays and an updated file for holidays through 2007, see:

Slipstick.com:
Microsoft Outlook Holiday Issues
Calendar Tools for Outlook

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  Wednesday, July 30, 2008 – Permalink –

Countdown to Appointment

Seven days till vacation


You could use brute force to enter data in an Outlook calendar that would count down to an event. Creating separate entries rapidly becomes tedious.

Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky demonstrates a way to quickly combine a list in Excel (or other CSV type formats) with calendar entries in Outlook.

It boils down to creating a list and importing into an Outlook calendar.

Here are the instructions including screenshots:

From Outlook-tips.net
Create Countdown Calendar Items

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  Saturday, July 12, 2008 – Permalink –

Leave on Server?

Why does it do that?


"All the e-mail messages that you receive go through an e-mail server for your e-mail account. Depending on the type of e-mail account that you use, your e-mail messages are processed in one or more of the following ways.
  1. Messages remain on the server. Outlook connects to the server, and you can read or delete your messages.
  2. Messages are downloaded to a local data file called a Personal Folders file (.pst). Outlook connects to the local .pst file so that you can read and delete your messages.
  3. Copies of messages are downloaded and synchronized with messages on the e-mail server. Microsoft Exchange Server accounts provide this functionality by creating a local Offline Folder file (.ost). This file is used for working offline when you can't connect or don't want to connect to the e-mail server. This file is also used by the Cached Exchange Mode feature in Outlook 2003.

E-mail account types differ in how e-mail messages are saved and synchronized with the e-mail server. For example, by default POP3 e-mail accounts delete e-mail messages from the e-mail server when downloaded into Outlook. However, you can customize how e-mail messages are retrieved and saved."

For information regarding how different e-mail accounts handle e-mail message, see the following:
POP3 e-mail accounts
When you retrieve e-mail messages from a POP3 ( Post Office Protocol. A common protocol that is used to retrieve e-mail messages from an Internet e-mail server.) e-mail account, the messages are deleted from the e-mail server by default after they are downloaded to your computer. For many people, this works great.

However, if you want to check your e-mail from multiple computers, you must configure Outlook to not delete the messages on your e-mail server. This scenario is most common for people who want to check their home Internet service provider (ISP) e-mail account from work and download the messages for permanent storage on their home computer.

When you leave messages on your e-mail server, you can choose from several options to delete your messages. To make your choice, you need to consider several factors about your e-mail usage, such as how long you want the messages to be accessible from multiple computers and the storage limits imposed by your e-mail server administrator. If you exceed your storage limit, you might be unable to receive new messages or might be charged additional fees. Typically, it is best to have one computer set to the default setting that doesn't leave e-mail messages on the e-mail server. When you use the computer to retrieve your e-mail messages, they are downloaded and deleted from the e-mail server. If you choose not to do this, Outlook allows you to select a time duration for leaving e-mail messages on the server.

Also:
Wikipedia.com:
POP3

IMAP e-mail accounts
When you access an IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) e-mail account, your messages are copied locally. However, the messages also remain on the e-mail server until you mark them for deletion and use the Purge Deleted Items command.

Also:
HTTP e-mail accounts
When you access an HTTP e-mail account, such as MSN Hotmail, your messages are saved on the e-mail server until you delete them.

Also:
Free email providers

Exchange Server e-mail accounts
When you access an Exchange Server e-mail account, your messages are saved on the e-mail server until you delete them.

Also:
Slipstick.com:
Exchange Server
MS Exchange.org


For more information see this Microsoft Support article:
Leave e-mail messages on your e-mail server

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  Saturday, July 05, 2008 – Permalink –

Outlook Does Not Respond

Don't Alt-Tab


In the heat of the moment it is natural to want to just Alt-Tab between applications. You may be working in Word and feel the overwhelming need to check your mail. Alt-Tab brings Outlook to the fore, so you Alt-Tab again to get back to your prose.

Doing this can cause Outlook to slow down and even stop. Outlook is still active, just waiting in the background. The suggestion is to minimize Outlook between peeks.


Slipstick.com:

"Get in the habit of minimizing Outlook 2003 rather than just using Alt-Tab or a Windows task bar button to switch to another program. If you leave the full Outlook 2003 window active, it may use so much memory that it stops responding"



Microsoft KnowledgeBase 827310:
Outlook 2003 stops responding after a long period of use
"While Outlook 2003 is running, it periodically pages memory in and out of the process address space. When the memory that is free is large, Outlook 2003 is permitted to have more pages in memory. This increases the memory that is being used by Outlook 2003. If another application requires memory, Outlook will release memory.

When you minimize the Outlook 2003 program window, the pages are switched so that the pages that are not required for user interaction are switched out of memory. When you maximize the Outlook 2003 program window again, the pages that are used for user interaction are switched in to memory, and the memory usage begins to increase again.

This could happen when working with a large .pst or .ost file as well as other actions within Outlook."


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  Thursday, June 26, 2008 – Permalink –

Troubleshooting Outlook

When all else fails



How to troubleshoot error messages
in Outlook and in Outlook Express
  • Confirm that your e-mail server settings are correct
  • Examine the configuration of your firewall software
  • Check your antivirus vendor's Web site for additional suggestions
  • Determine whether your modem is functioning correctly
  • Verify the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size that is set on your router
  • Remove and then reinstall Outlook Express
  • Create a new e-mail profile
  • Delete suspicious messages from your mailbox


G4TV.com:
Troubleshoot Microsoft Outlook Problems
written by Chris Pirillo

Microsoft TechNet:
Troubleshooting Outlook Web Access

Microsoft Office Online:
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007


Slipstick.com:
Mail Issues with Microsoft Outlook

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It is very nice information for all the outlook users. Thanks for inform all the error about Outlook.ziwmkfty
 
I heard about not bad application-outlook express troubleshooting, can safely open the file of dbx format and extract messages,troubleshoot Outlook Express with all versions of Microsoft Windows operating system, starting from Windows 98, troubleshoot also supports all versions of Outlook Express.
 
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  Thursday, June 19, 2008 – Permalink –

Global Area Code Changer

Fix Contacts


Telephone area codes sometimes run out of numbers and need to be split. Slipstick.com's Outlook Contacts Tools page offers some suggestions including:


Slovak Technical Services:
Phone Changer

After a reorganization or buyout, have you ever needed to replace domain portion of e-mail addresses in a Contacts folder?

Here's a macro from Woody Leonard's WOPR forum.

Global Change of email addresses

(If you use it, you might want to comment out some of the MSGBOX entries. )


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  Saturday, June 14, 2008 – Permalink –

Address Layout

Custom layout


When you use the Outlook as a source for addresses, you can customize the display to suit your own needs.

When you use the Insert Address button in the Envelopes and Labels dialog box it does not use the same format as the Insert Address button.

Here's the location to put the Address book on the Quick Access Toolbar in 2007:



Here's the work around:
Insert Address Button Does Not Use AddressLayout AutoText Entry

MacroButton; scroll down to Insert Address from Outlook>



Here are two sources with directions about how to reformat the AutoText entry: "AddressLayout".

Slipstick.com
Inserting Addresses into Microsoft Word Documents


Microsoft Knowlegebase:
HOW TO: Modify the Layout of an Address Book Entry

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  Tuesday, June 10, 2008 – Permalink –

Auto Link

Outlook Contacts in Access


Automatically set up links to data outside of Access.
It still works in Access/Outlook '07.

Try this:

  1. Choose File >Open from the menu bar.
    (Office button>Open in 2007)
  2. Under Files Of Type choose Outlook().
  3. Locate your Outlook PST files.
  4. Choose Contacts, or if you have set up separate files for different groups choose an appropriate one.
  5. The wizard walks you through the process of creating an Access database with a linked Contact table.




The changes made in Access will be reflected in Outlook and vice versa.

If you want to create a new database that will link to other data that isn't in an Access format, you can do it quickly.

The classic way is to use the File>Get External Data >Link Tables method.

However you can simply choose File >Open from the menu bar.

Select the appropriate data format from the Files Of Type dropdown list
(such as Microsoft Excel (*.xls)).

Open the file and Access will automatically create an MDB file with the same name as the data source you selected and will set up links to the data.

From there you can develop forms, queries and reports.

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  Monday, June 09, 2008 – Permalink –

Low Vision

Screen-magnification or zoom




Creating a Web site that accommodates people with low vision should be a goal of designers. Accessibility laws require it in some cases.

The online magazine AListApart.com, has some interesting articles:

Big, Stark & Chunky

"[Participants] told us that they often copied and pasted material into Word where they could enlarge the font even more and make it bold, thus rendering it easier for them to see."

"We have not done a good job of catering to these screen-magnification or zoom users. Using CSS, it's easy to do, as we shall soon see. And moreover, using CSS to develop zoom layouts is almost exactly what developers of handheld and PDA browsers are doing in their quest for small-screen rendering of wide, multicolumn web pages."


Also:


Web Accessibility

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  Monday, May 26, 2008 – Permalink –

View Pictures

All at once


This article walks you through the process of using VBA to develop a form that will allow you to open all e-mail picture attachments at one time.


Office Developer Center:

Viewing Multiple Picture Attachments in Outlook 2003
By Eric Legault (Outlook MVP)


It helps to have some experience with VBA coding, but the instructions are clear and no other applications are needed other than the Visual Basic editor that is built into Outlook.


Eric Legault is also a blog contributor at Office Zealot.com
The source code for the MSDN article can be downloaded there. It includes the complete form as well as the code modules.

... "image viewers that use a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) are best suited as a custom viewer. It's better to have one application handle several open image windows than individual windows cluttering your Taskbar! A perfect application for this scenario is the Microsoft Office Photo Editor, but it is no longer bundled with Office 2003."

Microsoft has replaced Photo Editor with a new photo editing and cataloging program in Office 2003 and 2007: Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Here is how to reinstall Photo Editor from your Office XP CD:
Photo Editor is removed when you install Office 2003 or Office 2007

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  Monday, May 19, 2008 – Permalink –

Outlook/Exchange Newsletter

Words from the wise


Here is a 13-year archive of articles about Outlook and Exchange. From both a user's and administrator's perspective.

Exchange Messaging Outlook


The suggestions come from Slipstick.com, so you know they're good.


The publication is available both as an e-mail newsletter and with RSS distribution.

[Edited entry from 1/20/2005]




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  Monday, May 12, 2008 – Permalink –

Crime and Outlook

Investigative techniques



Email Headers

ForensicExams.org

Outlook-Tips.net:
Recovering Deleted E-mail

HTCIA.org

"The High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) is designed to encourage, promote, aid and effect the voluntary interchange of data, information, experience, ideas and knowledge about methods, processes, and techniques relating to investigations and security in advanced technologies among its membership."



[Edited entry from 1/12/2005]




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  Tuesday, May 06, 2008 – Permalink –

OutlookPower Magazine

Source site


One of the locations for information about Outlook and Exchange is OutlookPower.com.

Also available as a news letter, it contains a number of suggestions such as this one dealing with printing the notes area on the calendar:

Printing Contact notes
By Francine Otterson
"How you can print the comments contained in your Outlook Calendar.

Outlook Calendar has various printing options to choose from that provide some editing capabilities.

With the Calendar Details printing style, the notes area would be printed along, with all of the other Calendar details. Plus, this style will allow you to choose a range of dates to print, and gives you the option of printing each day on separate pages or continuously.

To change the printing style, select Print under the File menu. Next, select the print style you would like to use e.g. Calendar Details style. If you would like to edit this print style, select Define Style then Edit."


The headlines can also be added to your web site:
Outlook



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  Wednesday, April 30, 2008 – Permalink –

Link Browser?

Error warning



You may see a warning about browser selection. It happened to me after playing with Firefox and then coming back home again.



Try going to Start>Run and entering:

regsvr32 Urlmon.dll


Here are other ways to do it:

In the following selections, you should know that The URL:Mailto Protocol is located at the top of the list proceeded by (None), not at the bottom with the other U's.

Microsoft KB;
The Locate Link Browser dialog box
appears when you open a Web link in an e-mail message in Outlook 2003


To resolve this problem, follow these steps to clear the Use DDE check box:


  1. Double-click My Computer.
  2. On the View menu, click Folder Options (or Tools>Folder Options).
  3. On the File Types tab, click URL:MailTo Protocol in the Registered File Types list, and then click Edit.
  4. In the Actions box, click Open, and then click Edit.
  5. Click to remove the Use DDE check box, and then click OK.
  6. Click Close two times.


OutlookMVPS.org:
Clicking a link opens the Locate Link dialog box (Firefox)

  1. OpenExplorer
  2. Select Tools and then Folder Options
  3. Select the File Types tab
  4. Select Extension: (NONE), File Type: URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
  5. Click Advanced toward the bottom of the window
  6. In the Edit File Type window, select open and click Edit
  7. Clear the check for DDE above the DDE message box (which should contain "%1" or similar)
  8. Click OK, Click OK


Repeat for File Type: HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy and FTP

In the "Locate Link Browser" box, go to C:/Disk/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplorer.exe.
Select the application and click "OK."

Or

In the "Locate Link Browser" box, go to C Disk/programs/Mozilla/Firefox.exe. Select the application and click "OK."

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  Tuesday, April 29, 2008 – Permalink –

Outlook Express

Troubleshoot


Outlook Express is not Outlook Lite. It's a separate free program included with Windows. Its claim to fame has been that it could be used to read newsgroups. Most groups are now available in HTML, and Blogs, so that is not as important anymore. Some people prefer Express because it has less baggage than the Outlook that is part of the Office suite.


Inside Outlook Express
Help, tips and technical information for Microsoft Outlook Express


Outlook Express
E-mail and Newsgroup Reader

Learn how to use Outlook Express to stay in touch with friends and family, and share information in newsgroups with other users like you.


Latest News


Knowledge base articles
Collected by
Jim Pickering MS-MVP


Repair Outlook Express

Outlook Mail Recovery

Mail-Repair.com

[Edited entry from 12/28/2004]

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  Sunday, April 27, 2008 – Permalink –

Outlook Query Builder

Find it



Another way to retrieve information in Outlook.
Outlook 2002 through 2007 has an option for filtering dialog called QueryBuilder.

To use it you just need to add the QueryBuilder key to the registry:

  1. Use Regedit to go to the appropriate location.
  2. Right click and choose to add a new Key.
  3. Name it QueryBuilder.


There aren't any other entries that need to be made.

Outlook2002:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\QueryBuilder


Outlook 2003:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\QueryBuilder


The next time you go to Tools>Advanced Find, there will be a new tab for the Query Builder.


Now you can create an AND/OR query using the Filter dialog in Search Folders, Define Views, Automatic Formatting, or Advanced Find.

With Outlook 2007:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\QueryBuilder


Go to Tools>Instant Search>Advanced Find.
The shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+F.

For more information, see:

Sliptick.com:
Using the Query Builder

Microsoft KB:
How to Use the Query Builder for View Filters and Advanced Searches



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New software has just made
converting pdf to text simple!
A
pdf server is all you need to manage your pdf files.
You can
convert pdf to word and many other files with a pdf converter!


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  Friday, April 11, 2008 – Permalink –

I'll let you see mine

Share it nicely


"Many home users and small businesses don't use Exchange. Fortunately, there are a variety of ways to share your e-mail, appointments, contacts, tasks, and notes with other Outlook users."


Here is one of the clearest expositions of multiple users' cooperative use of Outlook, even in a very small environment.


Sharing your Outlook information
By EricLegault


For up to date information on Outlook, SharePoint, and very little about waffles, see
Eric Legault My Eggo blog.


Also see:

Slipstick.com:
Sharing Microsoft Outlook Calendar and Contacts

Sharing Microsoft Outlook on One PC

[Edited entry from 11/18/2004]




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  Wednesday, April 02, 2008 – Permalink –

List Your Addresses

When I find the time


Here's a simple suggestion that sounds silly to begin with, but may come in handy in the future.
Write down your email addresses!
How many do you have?
  • Created by an ISP when setting up an Internet connection.
  • Work email accounts
  • Club or hobby related
  • From any domain you’ve purchased
  • Email aliases created on your behalf.
  • Web based email addresses with Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail or many others.



Remember your old AOL/CompuServe addresses?


Office-Watch.com



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  Sunday, March 23, 2008 – Permalink –

Reminder - Task - E-mail

Sent from Access


A great web site for Office information is Woody Leonard's WOPR.com.

There are a couple of newsletters associated with the site including:
Woody's ACCESS Watch


A recent issue has information about sending reminders to Outlook from Access.

"If you have a table that contains a date field, and you want to make sure that something happens on that date, one way is to create an Outlook task with a reminder that will pop up on the specified date; you can even use the Outlook reminder to create an email message that will be sent on the specified date.

This article will show how to create an Outlook task from Access VBA code, and send an email message when the task's reminder fires."


The file is located on Helen Feddema's site.
Access Archon
Scroll down to #126


The zip file contains the WAW article, in Word format, plus the supporting file.

Helen Feddema has been working with Word since v. 1.1, Access since the beta of v. 1.0, and Outlook since the beta of v. 8.0 (that's where Outlook started its version numbering).


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  Saturday, March 22, 2008 – Permalink –

Default Save

Choose your own location



When you choose to save most Office files, the Save dialog box defaults to the Documents or My Documents folder.

(The following directions work in 2007, but you need to click on the Office button in the upper left corner of the Window)

Word
you can change the default location by going to Tools>Options. On the "File Locations" tab you can modify the storage location.

Excel
Tools>Options. On the "General" tab change the default location.

PowerPoint
uses Tools>Options and the "Save" tab.

Access
Tools>Options and the "General" tab for Databases and Projects

Publisher
Tools>Options "General".

Outlook
will make you take an underground tour into the Registry to change the location to save e-mail attachments.

FrontPage/Expression Web
appears to require the same sort of spelunking.


Change the folder where e-mail messages and attachments are saved

Also:
D.C. Everest school district Weston, WI:
Office Default Paths

If you don't want to change the default, but would like to be able to quickly go to an alternate site, open the Save or Save Attachment dialog box. On the left side of the box is the Places Navigation bar. If you click the Desktop icon, that location will be used to save the file.

You can add spots to the bar. Browse to the specific folder. Highlight the folder and click the down arrow beside the Tools option. Select "Add to My Places."

The file or e-mail attachment can then be saved where you want.

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  Wednesday, March 12, 2008 – Permalink –

Crime on the Web

What does it look like?


PC World has an article on e-mail cyber crime, with examples of the notes.

Cyber Crime



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  Monday, March 03, 2008 – Permalink –

Live.com Addresses

Choose your own


Tired of Hotmail, MSN, AOL, Gmail.com domain names for email addresses?

You can pick up a new address; such as MyName@Live.com.

First come etc.


Live.com email

Register Live.com



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  Sunday, February 24, 2008 – Permalink –

New Windows in Outlook

How to open Multiple Windows



If you want more than one window open in Outlook (for example the InBox and Calendar), Right-click on an item on the Outlook bar and select "Open in New Window" from the context menu.

Choose Tasks and Calendar or any other combination.

You can now easily cut and paste between Outlook applications

Right click an empty area on the taskbar and select how the windows should be arranged.

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  Saturday, February 16, 2008 – Permalink –

Address Map

Display a map to an Outlook contact's address


If a contact item has an address in the United States, you can use your Internet connection and Outlook to create a map to the address. You must be connected to the Internet for this feature to work.

Open the contact item.

Next to the Address text box, click on the down arrow and select the address you want to map (Business, Home, or Other).

Then choose Actions/Display Map Of Address from the menu bar or click the Display Map Of Address button.

Your default browser opens and the map is created using Microsoft Expedia Maps.

Outlook Maps

In Outlook 2007, the Map button is on the Contact tab on the right side of the Communicate group. 2007 uses Maps.Live.com.

Outlook tips:
Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky
Customize Outlook's Map link
You can edit the registry to enable another web-based mapping service.

[Edited entry from 12/4/2004]




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  Friday, February 08, 2008 – Permalink –

Calendar Blanche

Empty days


Outlook allows you to print out your calendars.

If you just want to print a blank calendar over a specified period, here are the directions:

Blank calendar



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  Wednesday, January 30, 2008 – Permalink –

E-mail Access Form

Question and collection


Access 2007 has a wizard that will walk you through the process of sending an information gathering form through Outlook. The wizard is on the External Data tab in the Collect Data group.




"You begin with the Collect Data Through E-mail Messages Wizard, which guides you through the steps of creating a form.

The form is sent through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to your recipients, with your request for new or updated information.

When the recipients reply to your message, Access automatically enters their data into your database.


Collect data by using e-mail


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  Wednesday, January 23, 2008 – Permalink –

Mail Your Calendar

Save a calendar as an iCalendar file


  1. In Calendar, select a calendar to make it the active calendar in the view.

  2. On the File menu, click Save As.

  3. Type a name for the iCalendar file in the File name text box.

  4. A summary of the calendar name, date range, and detail level appears next to More Options.

  5. From the Date Range list, choose the amount of calendar data to include in the iCalendar file, or click Specify dates to enter a custom date range.




  6. From the Detail list, choose the amount of detail to show the recipients.
    Optionally, click Show to see Advanced options.

  7. Click OK, and then click Save.


E-Mail Calendar

Share a calendar

Share Outlook



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