Here is a really great example of how Microsoft office improved usability of features. When scheduling meetings it's often a pain when you have to take into account time zones. If you click on the Time Zone button on the Ribbon bar in Outlook 2007 you can specify the time zone that your meeting starts. Outlook will automatically publish the ...

DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, some of the new extensions used by Office 2007 applications.  They are all based on OpenXML and in reality are just a set of compressed XML files.  Want to see the guts of any of these files simply rename the file and change the extension to .ZIP and then unzip it!  You'll see a directory structure ...and you ...

The other day I wrote how to view message headers in OWA, and recieved a lot of mail asking if this can be done it Outlook as well. If you have ever used Outlook Express, you might be familiar with the View --> Source option. In Outlook this feature does not exist. Outlook gives you the option to View --> Options which will display the ...

Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 adds SenderID (aka SPF) support to Exchange. By adding the ability to view SenderID data in Outlook, you can troubleshoot issues easier, as well as create better rules to filter email in your inbox. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a type of DNS record created to help stop Spam. A lot of anti-spam filters include a ...

A while back I went over using a ''dialtone'' method to restore Exchange from a corrupt store. I received a few emails about a lingering issue that will occur with Outlook 2003 regarding Outlook Recovery Mode. After restoring Exchange using the dialtone method, everytime you open Outlook 2003, you will be notified that Outlook is running in ...

Outlook can be started from the command line simply by typing Outlook.exe. There are many command line switches that can be used to perform specific tasks, or open Outlook to specific windows. Many of these command line switches can be very useful in performing everyday tasks more effeciently. Here are my top 10 Outlook command line switches in no ...

If you are using POP3 for email, your email messages get stored in a PST file on the local computer. A .pst file contains all of your Outlook folders, like the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts and any other folders you have created. There is no automatic backing up of this PST file in Outlook 2003, however Microsoft has released an Outlook 2003 ...

Microsoft Outlook creates a nickname list that is for name checking and auto completion. When you use Outlook it automatically creates the nickname list. The nickname list can become corrupted and when it does Outlook may not identify recipients, may suggest the wrong recipients with automatic completion or it might just send the message to the ...