Appointments are received as plain text messages | Outlook Daily Tips This is a fairly common problem for users who send meeting requests to Internet addresses. When we forward appointments to another employee, the employee receives a vcalendar attachment that opens as a Calendar entry on their copy of Outlook. When we send it to someone using POP3 email, the attachment is simply a forwarded email... (more...)
Reminders and Tasks in Other Data Files | Outlook Daily Tips We had two questions about tasks, reminders, and flags recently. One used wanted to know how to prevent reminders and flags from his archive pst file from displaying while the other user wanted to know how to make the reminders show. I get a lot of emails and my pst files are very large (12-17GB) with just the email I get during one year.... (more...)
Outlook Social Connector’s Add to Facebook page 404′s | Outlook Daily Tips Wow. This bug may be fixed in record time! I first became aware of this error in late December 2011 and passed it along. I’m pleasantly surprised how quickly it is being addressed. Let’s hope Facebook moves as fast as Microsoft did (less than 3 weeks). While this is not fixed by this update, Microsoft... (more...)
How to find ‘lost’ Contact Groups | Outlook Daily Tips I set up a contact group. After saving it I can’t find it anywhere. I tried searching but it’s not found. Maybe I misspelled the name? There are (at least) three ways to find contact groups (distribution lists) within a contacts folder – Instant search, use a List view and look over the list, or create a filtered view.... (more...)
Changing the Email Display As Field in Hotmail Connector | Outlook Daily Tips Outlook defaults to using Full Name (email@address) format as the email display name. Some users prefer to use a different format, often removing the email address for security reasons. We even have a macro that makes it easy to change the email display name. The email Display As field in Contacts: Is used as the email Display... (more...)
Print a list of your Outlook Rules | Outlook Daily Tips Do you have a need for a text file containing a list of the rules assigned to your Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 default email account? A visitor to Slipstick.com submitted a code sample that creates a text file with the rule names and the From condition, in the order they are listed in Rules & Alerts. It still needs a bit of tweaking to include... (more...)
Hide Header in Reading Pane | Outlook Daily Tips The header in the reading pane or in an open message takes up quite a bit of screen real estate: In older versions of Outlook you can shrink the header down to the subject line by editing the view or by carefully right clicking on the left edge of the reading pane and selecting Header Information to toggle it off and on. In Outlook 2007, only the subject... (more...)
Search for Email Sent To or From a Domain | Outlook Daily Tips An Outlook user asked how to create a search for a messages sent to or from a domain (eg “@company.com”) and include not only email sent to and from himself, but also messages that he was CC’d on. There are three options which will work to varying degrees: 1. A search folder. Choose the ‘To or From’ predefined... (more...)
How to Rotate Photos Attached to an Outlook Email Message and Save the Changes | Outlook Daily Tips A frustrated user (one of many over the last few days) received photos by email but the attached images need rotated 90 degrees to be viewed correctly. He wants to rotate the pictures and save the rotated image back to the message in Outlook, so the next time he views it, it won’t need rotated... (more...)
Problems using Outlook’s Social Connector with the Outlook Hotmail Connector | Outlook Daily Tips When you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector and have the Hotmail Live account data file set as your default data file, any Social Connector provider that creates a local contact folder won’t work as expected. Specifically, online contacts won’t be synced to Outlook and the people pane will... (more...)
