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How to add a file number to the subject line of an Outlook message using VBA. (Sample macro included.)

Do you want most of your new appointments to use Free (or Tentative or Out of Office) as the default for the "Show as time" instead of Busy? Outlook doesn't have an option to set the "Show time as" default but you can create a custom appointment form with "Show time as" set to Free,  

Outlook 2010 added a feature to check for a blank subject but users of older versions of Outlook need to use a macro to display a warning before sending a message with a blank subject line.

In older versions of Outlook, a Properties dialog can be opened from the File menu of an open message. This dialog lists dates, Importance, and Do Not Autoarchive. In Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013, you need to customize the QAT or ribbon by adding the Properties command to see the Properties dialog.

Updates and hotfixes for Microsoft Outlook 2007.

You cannot delete individual birthdays from the Birthday calendar. see for more information. Not surprisingly, there are more than a few users who don't Outlook to add birthdays to their calendar. Generally speaking, the best way to prevent this is by not putting birth dates and anniversaries in the contact fields. If you want to  

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.

We hear a lot of complaints about the Conversation Groups that were introduced in Outlook 2010. They don't work as expected with Exchange 2003 or 2007, conversations don't stay expanded, and the old conversation view from older versions is not available. The conversation group features uses a Conversation field to determine if the message belongs  

My mail provider allows me to use distribution lists with up to 500 members but when I use Outlook 2007, I can only send to about 100 people. Is there any way I can send more than 100 emails from distribution list? No, you can't use larger distribution lists with Outlook if Outlook says "No".  

Outlook 2013's Active Sync support "fixes" this problem - task sync to Outlook.com and to the mobile devices that sync with Outlook.com. We get the occasional question asking when the Outlook Connector will support syncing Tasks with Hotmail.  Over the past several weeks, I've had several users ask if the Hotmail Connector is going to