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New Utilities | | ZoomIn | ZoomIn can save your preferred Outlook email zoom setting. (Feb 2) |
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| | | Colligo Contributor Add-In for Outlook | Integrate Outlook and SharePoint: easily save emails and attachments to SharePoint through Send and File, drag-and-drop, and Outlook rules, or copy entire Outlook folders to SharePoint. Sync document libraries and folders to Colligo Contributor from the toolbar. (Jan 31) |
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| | | CodeTwo Move & Delete Watchdog | CodeTwo Move & Delete Watchdog warns about unintentional moving or deleting folders in Microsoft Outlook. Whenever you move a folder in Outlook’s navigation pane or are about to delete something from the Outlook folder tree, a popup dialog appears asking for your confirmation. You can configure it to notify you when you move a folder, delete it, or in both of these cases. Free. (Jan 12) |
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| | | Save As PDF | Sperry Software is now beta testing a new add-in, Save As PDF. This add-in for Microsoft Outlook saves emails and their attachments as PDF files. Useful for project or case backups, legal discovery, and more, the add-in can convert emails, Word docs, Excel files, and many more formats without the need of a PDF printer driver. This new tool is only for Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 (either 32-bit or 64-bit). (Jan 10) |
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| | | Christmas Freebies for Outlook & Office | Ablebits released 3 free Christmas themed applications for Outlook and Office 2003, 2007, or 2010. New: Note&Do adds a note pane to Excel, Outlook, Word, and Powerpoint. Important Mail Alert works with Outlook 2003 – 2010 and tracks your urgent email no matter where it ends up in Outlook, be it your Inbox or a Junk mail folder. You can tell it which accounts you want to scan and open the message straight from the pane. Back again is the Christmas countdown clock, which adds a clock to the navigation pane. (Dec 15) |
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| | | Help Desk Email Templates | Sperry Software is now beta testing a new add-in, Help Desk Email Templates. This tool for Microsoft Outlook streamlines communication between users and IT Help Desks by allowing users to send pre-configured emails. This new version is for Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010, either 32-bit and 64-bit. (Dec 7) |
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| | | SKAIFO | SKAIFO is an Outlook Add-In that integrates Skype functionality with Microsoft Outlook. It has full-fledged User Interface inside Outlook so there is no need to switch back and force between Outlook and Skype for your free calling needs. (Nov 25) |
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Updated Utilities | | Safe PST Backup | Free Outlook backup tool. Back up Email archive, Contacts, Calendar and other folders automatically. Fast incremental backup will be done regardless if Microsoft Outlook is running or not. Schedule Outlook backup or back up PST files manually. Use Enterprise Edition to create fully customizable Microsoft Outlook and Exchange backup on your corporate network. Version 1.20. (Jan 31) |
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| | | ProperSync | Synchronize Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts with SharePoint 2007 or higher. Items can be put directly on your personal calendar or in your primary contact list. A great way to synchronize with your team. Free trial available. (Jan 31) |
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| | | Calendar Browser for Outlook | Calendar Browser for Outlook is a solution for booking resources of any kind within an organization - from meeting rooms, cars and projector equipment to personnel. Search for free resources, see descriptions and book, all in one tool. Graphical WYSIWYG html editor. Integrated statistics tool. Groupware, for both public folders and mailboxes. Full Unicode Support. Works on all versions of Windows, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.Version 7 supports Outlook 2007 and 2010. Compatible with Office 365. (Jan 30) |
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| | | Time Card for Outlook | TimeCard for Outlook summarizes and calculates expenses and time worked, based on appointment items in the Outlook calendar. Create reports on behalf of someone else. Provides a mechanism to standardize customers, tasks performed and rates. Reported data is saved to an Access or SQL Server database, directly or via ASP-page. Report data can also be exported to Excel. PDA/phone integration. Outlook 2000 or later. Win 2000-7. Full Unicode support. Workgroup and Single User versions. (Jan 30) |
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| | | Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery | Stellar Phoenix Exchange Server Recovery 4.1 repairs corrupt Exchange Server EDB files and restore them in the form of distinct PST files for every user mailbox. Repairs EDB file in any cause of EDB corruption. Restores various items of mailbox including emails, contacts, appointments, etc. Allows selective recovery of the user mailboxes. Shows the preview of the user mailboxes. Supports MS Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007, and 2010. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000 (Jan 29) |
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| | | Duplicate Remover | Outlook Duplicate Remover allows you to find and remove Outlook duplicates in just one click. Search duplicate items and merge Outlook duplicates automatically. Remove Outlook duplicates, such as duplicate Email, duplicate Contacts and Calendar events. It is an automatic software add-in for Microsoft Outlook without any settings to configure. Compatible with latest Outlook 2010 as well as Outlook 2007/2003/2002, Exchange Server and Public Folders. (Jan 17) |
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| | | KBase for Outlook | KBase for Outlook gives you a knowledge base available right inside Outlook. Supports rich text, .html and attached files. Full text searching. Problem Category and Type. Save articles as .html files to publish on website or intranet. Export to Excel feature that works for all Outlook items, not only for KBase. Version 2.2 (Dec 8) |
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Also New | | Using VBA to Change Business Card Image & Layout | Customize Outlook's business card layout and images then apply it to existing contacts using VBA. Complete VBA samples available to update selected contacts or all contacts with your desired layout. (Feb 8) |
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| | | Rotate Photos Attached to an Outlook Message and Save the Changes | A lot of photos are being sent by email this week but for many recipients, the attached images need to be rotated to be viewed correctly. In addition, the recipients want to save the rotated image back to the message in Outlook, so it won't need rotated again. In order to save the rotated image, you need to complete specific steps: open the message, rotate the image, save the image, save the message. We have the complete steps and video tutorials available for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. (Dec 28) |
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| | | iCloud and Outlook Problems | We're seeing a lot of questions (and complaints) about the new iCloud service and Outlook integration. Users with POP3 accounts seem to have the most problems (but could benefit the most from iCloud), since the data is local to one computer and iCloud moves it all into the cloud. We have solutions to many of the problems. (Oct 27) |
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Administrator Resources | | Office 2010 Migration Guides | Guides for Microsoft Access 2010, Excel 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Word 2010 with answers to common questions about making the transition to Office 2010 programs. These guides are particularly suitable if you’re converting from Office 2003, but a lot of the information is just as relevant if you’re switching from other versions. (PDF format) (Sep 8) |
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| | | Office 2010 Click-to-Run | The “Click to Run” version (C2R) is virtualized and can run side-by-side with your current installation which makes it great for trials but there are some limitations: Outlook 2010 C2R will not use add-ins and external programs (including sync software)will not see Outlook C2R; for example, mailto’s will not use Outlook 2010 because it is not registered as nor can it be the default email client. You can switch between either version at any time but cannot use both at the same time. While the limitations are annoying for regular use, it’s workable for people who want to try Outlook or need to support Outlook 2010 but aren’t ready to move to it for daily use. (Jul 27) |
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| | | Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB976573) | This resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 since the software was released, including minor updates to calendaring, OWA, and transport. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2010 customers. It is required to use BES with Exchange server 2010. (Dec 10) |
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| | | Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 | CDO 1.2.1 (Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1) is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API. Using either CDO or MAPI, a program can connect to a MAPI store, and then perform operations against that store. Starting with Exchange 2007, Microsoft will distribute the MAPI client libraries and CDO 1.2.1 as a Web download. Now supported on Windows 2008 and Vista. Version 6.5.8147.0 (Dec 10) |
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| | | Best Practices for Microsoft Outlook 2007 | This whitepaper provides Outlook 2007 users guidance on how to best use the product. It was created by the product team who created Outlook 2007 and represents their advice on how to get the most out of Outlook 2007. Although it is targeted to Exchange server users in larger corporate environments, all Outlook users can benefit from some of the content. Available online or in DOC or PDF format. (Dec 4) |
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| | | Exchange Server 2010 RTM | Exchange 2010 is now available to the public. Download a 120 day trial to install on your hardware or a virtual disk for testing. Online trials also available. (Nov 12) |
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Development Resources | | Redemption | Supports Outlook 2010 64-bit (and 32-bit versions of Outlook). Version 5.1 (Sep 12) |
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| | | 101 Samples for Office 2010 Development | Use these 101 samples to create your own Office applications that perform specific functions, or as a starting point to create more complex solutions. Each code sample consists of approximately 5 to 50 lines of code demonstrating a distinct feature or feature set in VBA. While most of the code samples are for Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, there are 4 samples for Outlook. There are also samples available for OneNote, Office, and Visio. (Aug 29) |
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| | | Office 2010 Developer Training Course | Office 2010 is a broadly extensible platform for building Information Worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Training Course includes videos, presentations, hands-on labs and source code. This content is designed to help you get started developing solutions, from Add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform. (Aug 13) |
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| | | Automating Search Highlighting in Outlook 2010 | This Visual How To describes a search highlighting add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2010 that uses the Outlook Instant Search feature to find items that contain a search term, and then uses the Word object model to open an Outlook item in an inspector and highlight the search term. This Visual How To describes what the tool does and explains the add-in code. This Visual How To also describes some associated extensibility features of the ribbon component of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface (UI). (Apr 21) |
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| | | Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO | An extension for Visual Studio Tools for Office that allows you to create view and form regions for Outlook Explorer and Inspector windows. You can customize several Outlook panes including Navigation pane, Reading pane, Folder view pane, Outlook super grid pane, To-Do Bar and Inspector windows such as e-mail, task and appointment windows. Visual Studio 2010 and 2008 with VSTO installed (C# and VB.NET), Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 (32-bit, 64-bit) are supported. (Mar 17) |
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| | | Add-in Express Extensions | The Add-in Express Extensions for Outlook is a plug-in included in Add-in Express packages that allows you to customize Microsoft Outlook forms and folder views by embedding feature-rich forms into the Advanced Microsoft Outlook Regions. So, you can design forms and views in Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, 2007 and 2010 32-bit and 64-bit both programmatically and in design-time. (Mar 16) |
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Other Resources | | 5-minute makeovers for Outlook 2010 | Microsoft released several Outlook email templates and signatures samples. Use the samples for your email or as a base for your own templates. Video showing how the templates were created is also available. These templates work in all versions of Outlook, however they are affected by "the template bug", which was fixed by the July 11 2011 hotfix. Templates for other Office applications are available in the 5 minute make-over series. (Aug 18) |
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| | | New Poll: Do you use Outlook's Journal? | As Journal users are painfully aware, Outlook 2010's Contact Activities do not include the journal in the search results. Outlook 2010 also does not give users the ability to change which folders are included in the Activities search. Microsoft did this because their data shows a small (but passionate) number Outlook users use the Journal. Are you part of this exclusive group? As always, the poll is open to everyone. (Registration required only for comments.) (Aug 2) |
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| | | Office 2010 SP1 released | Office 2010 SP1 was released 6/2011 and is available on Microsoft Update. Office 2010 SP1 consists of cumulative and public updates to date for the various applications that are part of the Office suite. Many previously released hotfixes for Outlook are included in SP1. New fixes include the ability to set an account as the default sending account, snooze times now include "minutes before" as in older versions. For a list of all issues addressed in SP1, see Description of Office 2010 SP1. OneNote users will want to look over the long list of OneNote improvements. (Jun 28) |
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| | | Microsoft Technical Chats | Chat with Office and Windows MVPs - October 14, 2010; Chat with Sharepoint MVPs - various dates. (Sep 29) |
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| | | Using Outlook 2010 with or without Word 2010 installed | Although the Word-based e-mail editor built into Outlook 2010 does not require that Word 2010 be installed, additional features and commands are available when you install Word 2010 with Outlook 2010. This article compares the features and commands available with or without Word 2010 installed. (Aug 31) |
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| | | Choose the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Microsoft Office | Office 2010 provides support for the 32-bit version of Office 2010 programs running on 64-bit operating systems by using WOW64, a compatibility environment provided by the operating system that allows a 32-bit application to run on a Windows 64-bit operating system. Using the 32-bit version of Office 2010 allows people to continue to use existing third-party add-ins for Office that are 32-bit. The 32-bit version of Office 2010 is the recommended option for most users, because it prevents potential compatibility issues with other 32-bit applications, specifically third-party add-ins that are available only for 32-bit operating systems.
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| | | New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010 | Users of new PCs preloaded with Office will be able to purchase a Product Key Card containing a single license card (no DVD media) from retail stores. The key code will unlock Office and enables any one of three full versions of Office –Home & Student, Home & Business, or Professional. Additionally, Microsoft is replacing Works with a cut down version of Office called Office Starter 2010. Office Starter 2010 is a reduced-functionality, advertising-supported version of Office 2010, available only on new PCs. Office Starter 2010 gives users a simple path to upgrade to a full version of Office 2010 directly from within the product (with a product key card). For those users who want to try (or buy) Office 2010, on their current computer, they will be able to download Click-to-Run. Click-to-Run uses virtualization technology, allowing users to maintain multiple versions of Office so they can try Office 2010 side-by-side with the existing version of Office. (Oct 9) |
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