Setting up IMAP in Outlook
So you’d like to try IMAP? Here’s step-by-step instructions on how to setup Outlook for an IMAP connection.In this series we’ll look at how to setup IMAP. We’ll use Gmail as our host example because it’s free and well supported, however any IMAP host should work (most ISP based mail systems support IMAP). Although many […]
Using IMAP with Outlook
Why you might prefer IMAP to get your email into Outlook. What are IMAP and POP? IMAP and POP are methods for retrieving email from an email host like your ISP, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail so you can access it from your desktop through some of the common desktop email applications like Outlook. IMAP is […]
Outlook 2010 complaints – they’re right but too late
Don’t get your hopes up, Office 2010 is a done deal. A few weeks ago a curious campaign started, mostly via Twitter, to ask Microsoft is ‘fix‘ Outlook 2010. The complaint is about the way Outlook creates HTML formatted emails, which is the way most people send emails with ‘full’ formatting like fonts, headings, images […]
Google Apps Sync disables Outlook Search
Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Google Apps Sync is a utility to synchronize Outlook email, calendar and contacts with the Google Apps online services. According to Microsoft, when you install Google Apps Sync the program will […]
Why deleted emails aren’t gone
Like many things with Outlook, even a simple thing like deletion isn’t simple at all. Microsoft has designed Outlook to give you options to recover items deleted accidently. Australian newspapers are leading with ‘UteGate’ – believe it or not. It started with an email supposedly sent from the Prime Ministers department, but can’t be found. […]
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – some time on
A look at the progress of Office 2007 SP2 – bugs fixed or not. It has been over a month since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released. Here’s a look Outlook 2007 won’t start We mentioned reports of Outlook 2007 not starting after SP2 was installed. Those initial reports appear to be a problem […]
New Outlook 2007 help arrives
The SP2 updated help files have finally appeared. When Service Pack 2 was released there were also new help files for all parts of Office 2007 with the notable exception of Outlook 2007. At the time we called the Outlook 2007 help files ‘missing in action‘. In early June the Outlook help files (user and […]
Using the Outlook View Control on an Access Form, Part 1
How to use the Outlook View Control on an Access form When Office 2000 was introduced, and the Outlook View Control first became available, I tried it out, but found it so buggy and difficult to work with that I set it aside as unusable. Recently, I decided to try it again, and found that […]
How to remember your passwords
Three places to save password information in MS Office. Ideally each login to a computer or web site should have its own password but it’s a given that we all use the same passwords too often. Remembering all those passwords is hard enough but you also have to remember the login name; was it your […]
New Outlook 2007 hotfix
20 new bugs in Outlook patched. Even though Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has been out only a short time there is already a patch for Outlook 2007. This ‘hotfix’ is temporary and a ‘ not fully tested’ update. It is dated 30 April 2009 – only a few days after Service Pack 2 went […]
More Office 2007 patches
Even after Service Pack 2, there are more fixes for Office 2007. Service Pack 2 has been out less than a week and already there are more fixes for Office 2007. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Most are dated 30 April 2009 – only a few days after Service Pack […]
Happy Birthday @
The @ symbol was used back in 1536 – 473 years ago today. The Lede blog for the New York Times notes that today is the 473’d anniversary of the first recorded use of the @ symbol. It’s found in a letter from a Florentine merchant and, from the context, presumably the use of the […]
Junk email filters for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007
New anti-spam downloads for MS Outlook Around the same time as Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, so were some Outlook spam filter updates. Outlook 2003 and 2007 have an anti-spam filter included. Because spammers are constantly trying new tactics to avoid those filters the Outlook filter needs updating from time to time. Outlook […]
Outlook messes up a birthday cake
How could MS Outlook’s ‘special’ features mess up a cake? Gotta love this story from Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration: Wegman’s bakery in New York has a personalised cake service – send them an email with the message and they’ll supply a special cake with your message on top of all that yummy ‘health food’. That proved […]
Office 2007 SP2 – what’s caught our eye
Some highlights and low lights of Service Pack 2. Only 24 hours since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, here are some highlights and lowlights that have caught our eye. Over the coming weeks we’ll look at some features in detail and, hopefully, report as Microsoft discloses more information about the changes in SP2. […]
Faster Outlook – what took them so long?
Microsoft boasts of a 26% faster Outlook 2007 – why a two year wait? We’re promised a faster Outlook 2007 with Service Pack 2, however promises that “Outlook 2007 SP2 is 26 percent faster than its predecessor on a set of common e-mail tasks and is even faster, 35 percent, with larger mailboxes” link seem […]
