I was on holiday today but a call from a friend had me in PC repair mode. The problem was Outlook 2007, on a home PC so no Exchange, refusing to start with the message: "Cannot start MS Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window” This one was
One thing missing after my move to Windows 7 was a decent PDF preview in Outlook. The default Office 2007 install gave an error referring to the Windows Vista PDF Preview Handler. The solution was Tim Heuer’s PDF Preview Handler for the excellent Foxit Reader. Thanks Tim & Foxit!
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Tonight I found, even when set to HTML format messages, my Outlook 2007 Mail Editor wasn’t making pasted links into clickable hyperlinks. They pasted ok but were not auto-formatted into a link. It was a pain as I like to check the link works before sending. The solution is
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This really is Part 4 but I don't expect many remember Part 3, posted in February 2007, or Parts 1 2 from, umm, August 2004! First a Review: What were MindManaging your day 1-3 about? They cover...
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MindManager has always managed task information and exported/linked it to other applications that can process it. In fact it's ability to link topics to Outlook tasks is crucial to my work flow . Mind...
I use the Grab feature from LinkedIn to gather contact details from emails and also manually sync some contacts between work home. Sometimes Outlook will create a new contact rather than updating the...
A recent Outlook 2007 update has broken the MindManager/Outlook linking facility for some, including me! Mindjet have published a temporary workaround, to their Knowledge Base, while they research a p...
Late last year I also stumbled on the email sorting technique mentioned in the OfficeRocker’s post. I started using Categories on emails related to my Autodesk University trip and changed my Inbox to...
I use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 at home* and love this feature. The first time I stumbled upon it I wondered why I hadn’t found it before, only to find it was new in 2007! Previewing Attachme...
The To-Do bar is one of my favourite new features of Outlook 2007. It provides a constant reference to tasks and appointments but can be minimised or restored with a click. If you have lots of tasks,...
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In earlier versions of Outlook there was an option to “ Use Microsoft Word as your Message editor ”. This meant other applications, like MindManager SnagIt, which had Word integration also worked with...
Have you noticed when working with .pst files Outlook seems to enter another dimension. Why bother with a “x time remaining ” when it has no connection to the time the operation will take, or any cloc...
