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Mail Setup can be found in the Control Panel (Mail), Outlook has to be closed to apply these settings. Open Control Panel Open Mail in Control Panel Under Profiles: Select - Show Profiles Select Radio Button - Always Use this Profile (Outlook - in Drop Down)


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I would use an application like "Auto Hot Key" utility. It allows you to assign all of your canned responses to a particular hotkey sequence. It allows you to define so many hot keys, that you should be able to cover quite a few canned responses. All you do is press the key combination you have configured and it pastes the content which you have ...


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Sadly, Outlook has notoriously bad support for HTML in e-mails, and it will only get worse. What you can do: try to cope with Outlook's way of handling HTML and CSS. A good guide to understanding the do's and don't's can be found here: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2533/a-guide-to-css-support-in-emai-2/ and here: ...


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Shift+Insert is actually a Windows command for Paste that dates from at least Windows 3.1. It is valid in just about any Windows application, but in the case of Outlook, you had text that Outlook knew how to enter in a message, so it assumed that's what you wanted to do. FYI, similar commands to the Shift+Insert for Paste are: Ctrl+Insert for Copy and ...


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I have written some VBA script to do this *bypass the server's disabling of auto-forward". Basically it mimics the user forwarding the email rather than the server doing an auto-forward. It's pretty simple: Sub AutoForwardAllSentItems(Item As Outlook.MailItem) Dim strMsg As String Dim myFwd As Outlook.MailItem Set myFwd = Item.Forward ...


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I've been using personal forms in Outlook 2007. To create the canned response I create a new message and then Save As... an Outlook Template (*.oft). To send the canned response I go to Tools > Forms > Choose Form > Look In: User Templates in File System > choose the one I need. Of course, I use Auto Hot Key to perform the above actions.


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NirSoft's OutlookAttachView can do this easily, even from the command line! OutlookAttachView scans all messages stored in your Outlook, and displays the list of all attached files that it finds. You can easily select one or more attachments and save all of them into the desired folder, as well as you can delete unwanted large attachments ...


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Create an auto-reply email template and save it as an Outlook template Create a message reply to send an automatic reply to your emails In Tools | Rules and Alerts create a new rule (Start from a blank rule, click Check messages when they arrive) In Which condition(s) do you want to check? window select the Sent Only To Me In What do you want to do with ...


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Right click on the very top entry in the folder list named 'Mailbox - Your Name'. Choose 'Properties for Mailbox...', then click on the 'Folder Size' button. The value for Total Size (including subfolders) is what you want. This is usually displayed in KB. Divide that value by 1024 to get the size in MB.


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This can be achieved by doing the following: Open your Contacts folder View -> Current View -> By Category The Contacts will be grouped by Category Right click on the Category header row you wish to change Select Categories... Change as necessary Click OK Done! Screenshots below from Outlook 2003, process is same for all versions I think:


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I have had this problem before. If a user first run Outlook in French, its folders will have the french names even when he runs Outlook in English. The folder names are stored in its exchange mailbox. In order to reset the folder names, you have to start outlook with the switch /resetfoldernames. -I know the question is old, I hope my answer will help some ...


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There are many things that could be causing the problems that you are seeing. It could be low disk space, a damaged drive, Outlook causing heavy disk access making the system sluggish (2GB is quite a substantial amount of data for it to deal with), or it could even be a malware infection. The first thing to do would be to clean out any old and unwanted ...


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If I remember correctly, you can press Ctrl + Shift + ' to turn this feature on or off. The shortcut is undocumented (it doesn't appear in Keyboard shortcuts), and I'd say it's pretty easy to enable by mistake...


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I managed to solve the same problem. I just removed the permission to "Send on behalf" on the ESM - Exchange 2003 (the target sender was a public folder). Then on the public folder "directory rights" I added the sending user with the "Send As" permision. Worked quite well! Hope it helps!


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Close Outlook, then go to Control Panel → Mail, and use this dialog to delete an existing profile, then create a new profile. The Microsoft knowledge base has an article describing how to do this in detail. The best way to migrate a user's data is not to do it all. Use Exchange if you have it, or use IMAP for email and CalDAV for calendars. Then when ...


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This depends if you are running your Outlook client in cached Exchange mode or not. Cached Exchange mode: Outlook must be open for the delayed send to occur at the designated time. Online mode: Outlook can be closed (and the PC even shut down) and delayed send will still work- it is stored and sent by the Exchange server. "This is expected. The problem ...


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This MS KB Article has steps to do so in Outlook 2007 method 3 Your best bet would be to transfer your file to a computer that has 2007 and use one of these methods. This will allow you to work on a backup copy as well as you won't have to buy a third-party application to do it. Regardless, always work on a backup Method 3: Split your large .pst file ...


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Outlook has no built-in feature for this, but you can use the start command: Create a shortcut in your Startup folder pointing that executes the command cmd /c start /min "" "FullPathOfOutlook.exe" or a batch file containing the command @start /min "" "FullPathOfOutlook.exe" Right-click the tray icon and check Hide when minimized.


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From here: Step 1: From the File menu, select Import and Export to start the Import and Export Wizard. Step 2: The Import and Export Wizard window will now appear. To export a file, choose Export to a file and then click the Next > button. NOTE: There are several file formats that one may use as the destination of exported ...


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This should be a server-level setting. Your Exchange admin should be able to configure the time interval between updates for your Offline address book downloads. It's possible that you're looking for the new users before your interval period has expired. To additionally complicate things, the OAB on the server is by default generated once per day, at ...


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Adolf, here is what you should do to have it done correctly. I tested it with my Office 2003 machine and it seems to work fine. I get the Due date and time I can chose among the drop down list. Open the message or contact you want to change the due date for. Click Follow Up . Enter a date and time in the Due by boxes. Note: Items past their due date ...


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Outlook Attachment Remover Add-in: Free Outlook add-in for saving and extracting attachments, decreasing the size of your Outlook files. Easy-to-use. Plenty of features.


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This is how to view the full header information in outlook 2003/2007. Right click on the message in its mailbox and select Options (in 2007, it is "Message Options" at the bottom of the right click menu). Right click in the Internet Headers box and choose Select All. Right click again in the Internet Headers box and choose Copy. You can scroll through ...


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I first found "How flags from earlier versions are updated for Outlook 2007", and then I've found this question that duplicates yours on techtalkz.com "View Color catergories in Outlook 2003": Outlook 2003 Colored Flags were migrated to Color Categories in Outlook 2007. There is no link in how Color Categories in Outlook 2007 are downgraded to ...


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I just found an answer to this at http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread251136.html. view -> arrange by -> current view -> customize current view -> other settings. You can select the font sizes for everything. You have to do it for each folder, though. But, it works!


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HTML email support is limited to a small subset of inline CSS. InDesign is not a web design tool, you should be using a workflow of design in photoshop > slice up then build in dreamweaver if you are using the Adobe suite. Premailer is your friend. This is one of the tools that campaign monitor uses in it's products. With premailer you can built your ...


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Answers to both your questions: Unwanted attachments like image001.gif: Outlook is very 'smart': How can I prevent an Internet image from being embedded in the message? After creating a signature with a link to an Internet image, you might experience that the image still gets embedded in the message itself. Outlook has an option to ...


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The article Outlook 2003 configurations and file locations contains an enormous list of places where Outlook 2003 settings are stored (except mail settings). Mail settings are stored in the registry at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings However, as some (but not all) settings are in binary, the most one can do is export ...


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In Outlook go to Tools > Macro > visual Basic Editor R-click on Project 1 and select Insert > Module In Module1 add the following code: Sub CustomMeetingRequestRule(Item As Outlook.MeetingItem) If Item.ReminderSet = False Then Item.GetAssociatedAppointment(False).ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 15 End If End Sub Click on Save Make your ...


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Start a new message Select the "Format Text" tab Make sure the cursor is in the body of the text (click somewhere in the body) Choose the style you want under the "Styles" section Click the "Change Styles" button in the "Styles" section Click "Set as Default" Your selection should now be the default under all new emails. As well, if you select the ...



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