Tip 972: Outlook crashes when you try to print | Outlook Daily Tips It seems like everyone is having problems printing in Outlook this week. Fortunately, the problem is fairly easy to solve: find and either delete or rename the outlprnt file. This file holds configuration and customization information for print layouts and Outlook will recreate it for you. You can find outlprnt at C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook... (more...)
Tip 971: Schedule Send and Receive During Certain Hours | Outlook Daily Tips An Outlook user had this question: Is there a way to set Outlook to send/receive only during certain hours of the day? I access a POP3 account on both my iPhone and Outlook. Because it’s pulled into both, I end up having to delete mail from that account on both. I thought if I could set Outlook to only send/receive during... (more...)
Tip 970: Disabling Tool Tips on Outlook’s Messages | Outlook Daily Tips The ScreenTips (tool tips or popups) that come up when you hover over messages in Outlook’s message list can be reduced in size but not disabled completely. Read More →
Tip 969: Can I make ‘this week’ the first week of the monthly calendar? | Outlook Daily Tips The following is a very popular request from users, especially towards the end of month: I’d like to change the default monthly view in Outlook to show this week and 4 future weeks. Currently it shows the current week and the prior four. Does anyone want to view past weeks more than they do... (more...)
Tip 966: View all Unread Mail from all Inboxes | Outlook Daily Tips We are often asked how to create a single search folder to display all unread email across all email folders: I have several Inboxes and many more sub-folders in Outlook. I would love to be able to highlight each email account and easily scan through them all by just looking to see if I have any unread emails. There are two ways to... (more...)
Tip 965: Changing Outlook 2010′s Conversation View Message Order | Outlook Daily Tips Why is the default message view showing the latest message first? For example, when I click on the conversation and it states ‘Latest message shown. Click to view earlier items.’ How can I change this? Isn’t it more logical to show the first message in the thread, not the last? Surely it is... (more...)
Tip 964: Managing “old” email accounts | Outlook Daily Tips A visitor had a question about how to forward mail from an old account to another account. This is a fairly common question that comes up when people leave their employer, graduate, switch to a new ISP, or decide to make their life easier by using fewer email addresses. Read More →
Which Calendar does the To-Do Bar use? | Outlook Daily Tips We get a lot of questions about missing appointments on the To-Do Bar appointment section: My To-Do Bar is not showing my appointments. Under my ‘To-Do Bar’ options everything is checked. In addition to missing appointments, some users complain that the wrong appointments are shown. This is always a problem when there is more than... (more...)
Tip 962: Change the Default Calendar where Meeting Requests are Saved | Outlook Daily Tips Problem: user has all mail delivered to a Personal Folder. When they have a meeting request, and accept it, the meeting is added to the Calendar in the personal folder. User has cell phone that syncs with Exchange calendar but meeting requests do not sync to the cell phone, because they are not in the Exchange... (more...)
Tip 961: Drag and Drop to Re-order Tasks | Outlook Daily Tips An Outlook user had a question about re-ordering tasks: When I drag a task to another position in my task list I get a circle with line through it. Outlook will not allow me to drag and drop a task. I used to be able to drag a task. Is there a setting that will allow me to drag a task to a new position in the Task List? Tasks are ordered... (more...)
