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Hide flagged items of other mailbox in To-Do Bar

Roady [MVP] — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:09:53 +0000

I've got an additional account in Outlook which I share with someone else. We often flag emails for each other which then show up in the To-Do Bar as well were it mixes with my own tasks and flagged mails.

I tried to disable this mailbox from displaying reminders in the To-Do Bar but that options appears not to be available.

Is there a way to only show tasks and reminders from emails in my personal mailbox and not from another?

Signature won’t save because of File Block settings

Roady [MVP] — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:33:10 +0000

When trying to create a new signature or editing an existing one, I get the following error;

"You are attempting to save a file type (Web Pages) that has been blocked by your File Block settings in the Trust Center"

The error also gives instructions to solve it, but when I follow these, I don't seem to have a "File Block Settings" in Trust Center.

How can I solve this and re-enable the saving of Signatures again?

Print a message with today’s date and time

Roady [MVP] — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:04:15 +0000

For archiving or approving purposes (especially with drafts), we need to print out e-mail messages with the current date and time on it. I believe Outlook 2003 did this automatically but Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 no longer do this. Instead these version only print with the sent/received date and no date at all for Draft messages. Is there any way to "restamp" the date and time on a message when printing?

Don’t let senders flag message with Reminder for me

Roady [MVP] — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:15:46 +0000

Lately, people tend to send me messages which are already flagged and have a follow up reminder. Is there a way to disable these type of remote flags and reminders?

Convert from a POP3 account to IMAP

Roady [MVP] — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:43:27 +0000

I'm currently using a POP3 account but want to switch that to an IMAP account. Looking at my account settings, POP3 is grayed out so I can't simply change that to IMAP. How do I change from POP3 to IMAP without losing my current emails?

Update RSS feeds on demand only

Roady [MVP] — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:47:56 +0000

I have quite a list of RSS feeds configured in Outlook and while that works great, I do find myself getting distracted quite quickly because of it.

Also, it seems that Outlook’s send/receive process is getting slower because of the amount of RSS feeds that I have.

As my mail is my main priority, is there a way to configure Outlook in such a way that it will only download RSS feeds when I want to?

Remove underline and changing hyperlinks color

Roady [MVP] — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:22:42 +0000

By default, whenever I create a hyperlink, Outlook turns the text color into blue and underlines it. Is there any way I can remove this default underline and change the color for instance into our company's color (green)?

Reset or keep formatting when pasting to email

Roady [MVP] — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:23:48 +0000

Whenever I copy something from another email or application such as an Internet page and paste that in my message, the formatting never really blends in with what I have already. On the other hand, when I have some carefully formatted text from Word and paste that into a new message, a lot of formatting is lost or messed up. How can I control the formatting of my pasted text?

People Pane adds GUID references to IE History

Roady [MVP] — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:28:00 +0000

Since I'm using Outlook 2010, I see a lot of GUID references in my Internet Explorer History which makes it hard to use. For instance; {6BE240C7-DFC2-4366-8871-08A412F896EB} When I click on it, I get one of the following;

a warning which reads;
"Running a system command on this item might be unsafe"
a file not found error
a web page with the text;
"There are no items to show in this view."

Where exactly is this coming from and how can I make it stop poluting my IE History?

IMAP: Folder structure and Junk E-mail filter

Roady [MVP] — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:00:25 +0000

In my IMAP account, the default mail folders like Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, etc are subfolders of my Inbox folder. I have been able to set the Sent Items and Deleted Items folders of my IMAP account so that they now work, but the Junk E-mail filter does not work. Why are my folders all under the Inbox folder and how can I make the Junk E-mail folder work with my IMAP account?

Traveling between time zones

Roady [MVP] — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:13:15 +0000

I frequently travel between different time zone. Sometimes I change my computer's clock to match the time zone that I'm in and sometimes I don't (depends a bit on how long I'm staying). This can be quite confusing sometimes and I often worry if all my meetings and appointments are still scheduled on the correct time. What is the best way to configure Outlook in this situation?

More colors for Notes via Categorize

Roady [MVP] — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:32:00 +0000

In the Notes options of Outlook, I can choose a default color out of a set of 5 colors. Is there a way that I can change the color of an existing note and to have more than 5 colors?

Options tab for old add-ins in Outlook 2010

Roady [MVP] — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:53:00 +0000

I've been using an add-in in Outlook 2007 (and previous Outlook version) which added its own tab in the Options dialog of Outlook to configure it. I've now upgraded to Outlook 2010 and the add-in still seems to work just fine but I can't find its configuration tab anywhere. It hasn't been added as an extra section in the new File-> Options dialog nor can I find anything on the Add-Ins tab of the Ribbon. How can I configure it in Outlook 2010 or should I look for a new add-in?

Change language of calendar (days and months)

Roady [MVP] — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:59:27 +0000

I've installed an English version of Windows and also an English version of Office. However, when I go to my Calendar, I still see the names of the days and months in my native language (Dutch). How can I switch this to English as well?

Internet images not being downloaded in emails

Roady [MVP] — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:24:53 +0000

I've received a message with images in it which are located on the Internet. Outlook blocks these images from being downloaded, but even when I tell Outlook to download the images they will not show. I've completely disabled the picture blocking feature in Trust Center-> Automatic Download now and they still don't download and only show the infamous broken image icon with a red X. This applies to all the emails that I get with Internet images from different senders so I know it is not an issue with how the message was composed or that the images are no longer available on the web server. How can I get Outlook to download these images?