Outlook.com preview
The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion.The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. It’s called Outlook.com and is available as a preview now. Go to Outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft, Windows Live or Hotmail account. Microsoft has a lot […]
London 2012 calendars for Outlook
How to schedule your Olympic viewing with Outlook. At the risk of attracting the attention of the, now infamous, Olympic Branding Police … we’d like to give you some Olympic related tips for Outlook and Office users. With so many events being broadcast live, scheduling your time isn’t going to be easy. In the USA, […]
Organizing Outlook 2010 Email – now available
A fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks, Organizing Outlook Email, for Outlook 2010 We’re delighted to announce a fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks Organizing Outlook Email for Outlook 2010 We’ll take you through all the email management features available from simple moving of messages […]
Outlook 2013 and its wasted space
Outlook 2013 takes a backward step in readability. Grab a ruler and it’s easy to see how Microsoft has wasted screen space with Outlook 2013. The message view with preview turned off uses about 20% more vertical space than Outlook 2007 – That means less messages visible on the screen at any one time and […]
Outlook 2013 and the return of Unread messages
Unread messages view returns in Outlook 2013. Viewing ‘Unread mails only’ has returned as a classic ‘flip flop’ from Microsoft. Outlook 2010 dropped the ‘Unread messages’ view because Microsoft assured us their testing showed that people didn’t want or use that feature. Really? People didn’t want to see just unread messages? In what alternate universe […]
How big is your Outlook?
Find the size of your Outlook data files, then don’t worry about it. Checking the size of your Outlook data files is pretty easy, you can also find out which folders are taking up space. In any version of Outlook (we checked Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003) right-click on the top level of […]
Reply or Forward messages with image links
Is there a security risk when you forward or reply to a message? A reader writes: “if you forward the message (we’re supposed to forward SPAM messages to a particular internal mailbox for analysis, etc.) that fetches the image and reveals the IP and other information sent by the web browser. I really wish there […]
Image Privacy in Outlook
‘Click here to download images’ in Outlook may seem like a nuisance but it’s there for a good reason Why does Outlook prompt you to download images with messages – instead of just getting them? The ‘Click here to download images’ may seem like a nuisance but it’s there for a good reason It may […]
About the Hidden Outlook info image
About the special ‘Hidden info’ image included in Office for Mere Mortals. As part of an article on Outlook security Office-Watch.com made a special ‘image’ that displays, within an email, some system information sent by Outlook to the Internet. This image was included in Office for Mere Mortals for Monday 4 June 2012 and Office […]
Catching ATT bogus messages
Make Outlook trap the latest ATT bogus messages, even if you’re an ATT customer. Every once in a while, spammers make a new email that bypasses even the High junk email setting in Outlook. When that happens you need to setup your own rule to remove them, until Microsoft’s spam filter catches up. In this […]
Changing the ‘Send To .. Mail Recipient’ Windows command
How to change the Windows Send to email option to something less annoying and more directly useful. For a long time Windows has an option to select a file in Explorer and email it. Right-click on a file, choose ‘Send to’ then one from the list of options. The exact list depends on what you […]
Email Aliases in Office 365
There is no catch-all email in Office 365 but aliases are buried in the configuration. Yet even then they aren’t properly implemented. The Office 365 implementation of email aliases is a typical Microsoft minimal effort. They’ve done enough so they can say Office 365 has ‘aliases’ but lacks the depth of work to deal with […]
Moving a PST to Gmail
How to copy an Outlook PST into Gmail or other online email storage. Leigh O. asks: “I cannot find any instructions on how to upload the .pst file into Gmail which is what I am using now.” You can’t upload a PST file to Gmail (or any other email service that we’re aware of). To […]
Moving existing Outlook data
How to move existing Outlook items to an Office 365 or any other new email setup. Now that you have an Office 365 account working in Outlook you can copy your current Tasks, Contacts and Calendar from your current Outlook store into the Office 365 account. In short, open up the existing Outlook folder and […]
Office 365 time zone hassles
Office 365 mis-handles email read receipts and tracking with the Monrovia / Reykjavik time zone. There’s an ongoing complaint about Office 365’s response to email read receipts and other email tracking. When an Office 365 user asks for a read receipt, the receipt comes back with a time zone of ‘UTC Monrovia / Reykjavik’ not […]
Outlook Web Apps – time zone change
How to change the time zone setting in Outlook Web Apps and how it’s a workaround for an Outlook problem. Anyone who has Outlook Web Apps can use it to workaround a long-standing problem in Outlook – multiple time zone display. Outlook has always given limited time zone support. For some reason Microsoft doesn’t seem […]
