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May 9th, 2008

Problems Assigning Category Colors in Outlook

Why in the world can I not assign custom colors to categories? Perhaps more importantly why in the world can I not select the core primary and secondary colors? I know some of them are close but there’s not a YELLOW.
Why can’t I assign a completely solid color as well. All of these have […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 23rd, 2007

Outlook Mismanagement of Archive Folders

Can someone please tell me why Microsoft developers think the formatting over there to the left is the best way to manage archived mail folders?
Why do they all have to show as soon as the first archive happens? I know I can close them all individually, but I thought the purpose of archiving your old […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

May 13th, 2007

Adding Safe Senders Automatically in Outlook

Scanning through some recent Lifehacker posts reminded me of a little tip I’ve been using for quite awhile now. When you first start using Outlook, it doesn’t trust anyone for e-mail to you if you’ve got your security settings set to fairly high.
Wendy shares a link on Lifehacker to a post on Tech-Recipes that goes […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 6th, 2007

Previewing PDF’s in Outlook 2007

Have you tried and or noticed that you can’t preview a PDF document in Outlook 2007 like you can a majority of other documents you might receive via your e-mail?
Ryan Gregg, who is part of the Outlook team at Microsoft has developed and released a little add-in that allows you to preview those PDF documents […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

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