Tip 982: Filtering for ‘where I am the only person on the To line’ | Outlook Daily Tips The filter rule for “where I am the only person on the TO line” only applies to the display name for the email account, not the email address. I want to create a conditional formatting view for my Inbox to highlight all messages sent only to me. I selected the box “where I am the only... (more...)

Tip 981: Social Connector Triggers Security Alert | Outlook Daily Tips When you use the option to Apply macro security configuration to add-ins, a security alert comes up when Outlook loads the update Social Connector.  Read More →

Tip 980: Filtering Out of Office Automatic Replies | Outlook Daily Tips Use rules to delete the Out of Office (OOF) replies as they arrive in your Inbox, choosing either to create a rule that looks for messages which are automatic replies or to create a rule that looks in the subject for commonly used words that identify the message as an ‘automatic reply’.  Read More →

Tip 979: Send Meeting Responses to Another User | Outlook Daily Tips How to direct meeting responses to another user using Microsoft Outlook 2010, or direct email replies to another user (or users) in all versions of Outlook.  Read More →

How to move Contacts from Outlook to Hotmail | Outlook Daily Tips If you have contacts in Outlook and want them in Hotmail, there is no need to export to a CSV file and import the contacts using Hotmail online.  Read More →

Tip 977: Invalid Username and Password in Facebook Social Connector Setup | Outlook Daily Tips When I try to setup my username and password in the Facebook Social Connector, I get an invalid username or password message. The username and password are correct, I use them to log into Facebook. I uninstalled and reinstalled Outlook and the Social Connector but it didn’t help. First off, uninstalling... (more...)

Tip 976: Resizing Photo Attachments | Outlook Daily Tips Sending digital pictures by email can result in huge message sizes which may be bounced by the sender or recipient’s email server. To avoid problems, we show you how to reduce the size of image attachments before you send them.  Read More →

Tip 975: Undo Preface Comments (Mark My Comments) | Outlook Daily Tips An Outlook user had a question about the preface comments feature (mark my comments in older versions). He really likes using it, but when he corrects a misspelled word or makes a minor change that does not need to be prefaced with his name, Outlook adds it anyway. He wondered if he could turn the feature off “on the fly”.... (more...)

Tip 974: Using shortcuts to create new Outlook items | Outlook Daily Tips I’d like to have a shortcut in my system tray or sidebar in Windows 7 so I can create a new appointment without opening Outlook. Is this possible? Of course, its possible. You can take the easy route and use QuickIcons. This application works with all versions of Outlook to create shortcuts in the Quick Launch toolbar,... (more...)

Tip 973: Outlook continues to access a folder after attaching a file to an email | Outlook Daily Tips We’ve all ran into this problem at least once or twice: After you attach a file to an Outlook email message (or save an attachment), you can’t move, delete, or rename the Windows folder the file is stored in and receive an error message telling you the file is in use. “The action... (more...)