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Forum: Outlook - General Queries October 13th 08, 09:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 375
Posted By Swifty
Others

Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote) wrote:
Is there a plus sign to the left of it?

Aha! It is some sort of mostly blank contact, probably caused by
replicating with some dodgy device or other...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries October 13th 08, 09:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 375
Posted By Swifty
Others

Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote) wrote:
Is there a plus sign to the left of it?

No, one blank row, one row with two columns containing "Others:" and "399"

Strangely, the status bar at the bottom...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries October 13th 08, 07:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 375
Posted By Swifty
Others

At the start of my Contacts list is a tiny table containing a blank row,
and a row saying "Other: 399".

This seems to be some sort of summary, so how do I populate this table?

I have all sorts of...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries October 12th 08, 06:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 5
Views: 486
Posted By Swifty
How to restore "To ..." prompts in the address field

Anatoly Kurilin wrote:
Hi, sometimes I need to move my Outlook.pst to another location. I have no
problems with refreshing the pass to its new location but after that there
is no prompts in...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries August 11th 08, 03:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 3
Views: 451
Posted By Swifty
Does Outlook need to be open to remind you of something?

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
No, just like you can't read a Word document if Word is not open.

Indeed, but it would be nice if Outlook ran a small program as a service
to monitor the...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries August 3rd 08, 11:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 1
Views: 1,223
Posted By Swifty
Insert a horizontal rule in an HTML email

Is there a way to include a horizontal rule in an email which is being
sent in HTML?

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Steve Swift
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Forum: Outlook - General Queries May 20th 08, 07:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 433
Posted By Swifty
Unread count on "Deleted items" (2003)

Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) wrote:
At times it's an awkward balance here between answering the exact question
asked and guessing what the poster is actually trying to do.

Which is exactly...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries May 16th 08, 10:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 433
Posted By Swifty
Unread count on "Deleted items" (2003)

Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) wrote:
Not that I know of. Have you tried Right clicking the Deleted Items folder
and using the Mark all as Read button? It's fast.

Wow! Two solutions for the price...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries May 15th 08, 07:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 433
Posted By Swifty
Unread count on "Deleted items" (2003)

Is there any way to prevent the display of unread item count next to the
"Deleted Items" folder?

I'm forever deleting stuff without reading it, only to have to go into
"Deleted Items" in order to...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries March 10th 08, 07:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 7
Views: 452
Posted By Swifty
Create rule question please

Brian Tillman wrote:
Create a rule that deletes everything and add an exception of "except
with specific words int he subject" and make the specific words each or
the strings Swifty...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries March 9th 08, 06:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 7
Views: 452
Posted By Swifty
Create rule question please

Bob Newman wrote:
How do I tell Outlook "when nothing is on the subject line"? If I leave
it blank I get an error message from Outlook.

I find that checking for A E I U O Y 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries February 14th 08, 04:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 826
Posted By Swifty
Rules: messages from people in distribution list

F.H. Muffman wrote:
So this is a POP3/IMAP account and a personally created list of contacts?

It certainly is in my case (POP3), where I cannot get such a rule to be
accepted.

I wrote to...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries February 13th 08, 06:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 826
Posted By Swifty
Rules: messages from people in distribution list

F.H. Muffman wrote:
Yes. Just create the rule under Tools - Rules and Alerts and specify
messages from the DL. It used to work, I assume it still does.

I've never seen this working. I'm told...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries January 4th 08, 06:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 6
Views: 594
Posted By Swifty
help with outlook express

Joe wrote:
at home i am able to rec and send emails
at work I can rec but are unable to send.

It is most likely that your work network has a mechanism in place to
block outbound SMTP mail...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries January 4th 08, 05:59 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 5
Views: 612
Posted By Swifty
$25 Challenge

----- Mardman ----- wrote:
I will pay $25 via Paypal to the first person who can tell me how is insert
a page break in Outlook 2007.

I won't add to the other solutions, but for future...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries January 3rd 08, 08:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 1
Views: 517
Posted By Swifty
Minimise to the System Tray

Swifty wrote:
Does Outlook 2003 have an option to minimise to the system tray rather
than to the taskbar?

I just found "Hide when minimised" in the system tray options. It's
amazing how...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries January 3rd 08, 06:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 1
Views: 517
Posted By Swifty
Minimise to the System Tray

Does Outlook 2003 have an option to minimise to the system tray rather
than to the taskbar?

I can achieve the effect with a 3rd-party program (The Wonderful Icon)
but a built-in facility would be...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries January 2nd 08, 05:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 5
Views: 621
Posted By Swifty
Killfiling MI5 newbie spammer

Uncle Grumpy wrote:
This filter works in Agent (just tested it), even with all the
permutations the poster has been generating:

Subject:"m" and "i" and "5" and {p} and {e} and {r} and {s}...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries December 20th 07, 06:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 440
Posted By Swifty
Red x's in All Outlook E-Mails

Frenchy wrote:
These are HTML E-Mails coming from trusted sources that I have (until
last week) always received the full E-Mail and no red x's from. Right
click only gives a COPY...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries December 19th 07, 07:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 440
Posted By Swifty
Red x's in All Outlook E-Mails

Frenchy wrote:
Suddenly from late last week (probably after last Tuesday's MS security
updates) I am seeing Red x's in HTML messages.

Red X'x are usually caused by images that cannot be...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries November 28th 07, 11:50 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 1
Views: 653
Posted By Swifty
Red X on pictures and graphics on incoming email (NO. 2)

Steve-O wrote:
When I get email (with pictures and graphics) they are all in little RED x's.

Things that might cause this (in no particular order)

1. You have a firewall that is blocking HTTP...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries November 23rd 07, 07:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 5
Views: 1,932
Posted By Swifty
Run Rules Before Junk Mail Filter?

Albert wrote:
As opposed to it currently being the first thing to run when mail
arrives, would be nice to give users the flexibility to run some of
their own rules first.

I couldn't agree...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries November 20th 07, 06:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 3
Views: 747
Posted By Swifty
Difference Between Contacts and Address Book

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
There is no address book in Outlook. What you think is an address book
is simply a view of the electronic addresses contained in your Contacts
Folder....
Forum: Outlook - General Queries October 5th 07, 07:27 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 10
Views: 738
Posted By Swifty
Outlook keeps getting email after it's closed

Elmo Watson wrote:
When I get the emails at home, it deletes the files from the server, so, I
turn it off in the morning,

There is an option to leave emails on the server. If you set this at...
Forum: Outlook - General Queries August 17th 07, 05:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Replies: 8
Views: 504
Posted By Swifty
Troubleshooting "Rules" - two problems

The reason that i am trying to create rules for the Junk folder is that many
of my emails that I do want end up in there

In recent versions of Outlook, the Junk Mail filter runs before your...
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