This guide is all about backing up and restoring your Outlook Data. It describes various methods and explains which method is best to be used in which scenarios.
This guide is all about backing up and restoring your Outlook Data. It describes various methods and explains which method is best to be used in which scenarios.
For certain actions Outlook holds a list of recently used items so you have quicker access to them. In some case you want to clear this list.
Seeing messages being send without something in the Outbox? This could be a stuck read receipt.
Get your Desktop clean by removing the Outlook icon from you Desktop.
Deleted a message and even cleared you’re Deleted Items folder? See how you can still try to get your message back.
Make sure your colleagues only get the permissions you want them to have and delegate your mail properly for when you are out of the office.
Sign your own macros with SelfCert.exe so there is no more need to lower your security settings.
You probably already know the closed envelope, the open envelop, marked as forwarded, marked as replied and if you are in an Exchange organization the Out of Office icon probably looks familiar as well but do you know the rest? See the full overview of Outlook icons!
Planning to downgrade to a previous version of Outlook or want to be able to open your pst-file in a previous version of Outlook?
Place all your favourite options on a Toolbar and sort them the way you want it for easy access.
Like the New Mail Alert but hate the fact that it only stay for up to 30 seconds? With a small modification you can make it stay up to 50 days!
Check or change the status of Cached Exchange Mode by changing a registry key.
With the enhancements of the Navigation Pane also came quite a lot of options but not all of them are really easy to notice or to work with right from the start.
Make sure that when you click a hyperlink it gets opened in a new Internet Explorer window.
When you are in an Active Directory network environment you can set Outlook policies to enforce settings on your users. If you are a home user you might want to set policies on what your children can and cannot do in Outlook.
In an Exchange environment you might encounter that your automatic forward/reply rules and Out of Office Assistant aren’t working. They probably are working but are forwarded/replying to a message from the Internet. This is disabled as a secure default on the Exchange server. This article explains how Exchange Administrators can change this behaviour.
Organize your mail by color coding them automatically when a message arrives.
Already master the basics of color coding? Get even more organized by color coding based on specific message properties.
Outlook 2007 uses Word as the HTML rendering engine which could end up in a malformed display of the email message. Use a simple script to render the message in an Internet browser of your choice by a click of a button.
Do you only have the option to save an included picture or animation as a bmp-file?
If you are sending the same e-mails on a recurring basis like daily, weekly, monthly etc… to send for instance a reminder or an update report as attachment you may want to automate that. Outlook doesn’t natively have this feature but with some code or add-in it can be done.
While this guide is mainly focused on separating mails received from different accounts, the techniques can be used to sort mail based on other criteria as well.
Workaround for adding sound and scrolling text to your messages after applying Windows XP SP2.
Making Birthday or Holiday cards? Find out how you can add sound or moving text or a video or…
Creating the signature you want with for example a company logo in it can be quite of a hassle. Learn both the basics and advanced examples on creating a signature in Outlook.
Editing the HTML source code has been made very easy in Outlook Express but not in Microsoft Office Outlook.
This code has been written for Word and Outlook 2007 and mimics the mail document in-line feature which was available in previous versions of Office but dropped in Office 2007.
Although the Import and Export allows you to export to an Excel spreadsheet I think that the Wizard isn’t much of a help in getting it exported the way you want it. Also mapping and choosing fields to export isn’t much fun in the wizard either. Fortunately there is another, more graphical (WYSIWYG), way to do this as well.
Use views to easily update general info for multiple contacts like the Business Address for when a company relocates.
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