While experienced Outlook users have troubleshooting Outlook down pat, newer users often don't know where to begin so they start by uninstalling and reinstalling Office or Outlook. Because most problems are caused by corruption in the user configuration files and registry entries or by third party add-ins, and these are preserved during a reinstall, uninstalling
How to create a send-only POP3 account
How to create an email account that will be used only to send email from a forwarded email address.
Bulk Move Phone Numbers to a Different Phone Field
How to use VBA to move Outlook's Contact phone numbers to a different phone number field. This is useful when syncing smartphones that support different fields.
Outlook 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 is now available on Microsoft Update. Office 2010 SP1 contains all Cumulative Updates released through April 2011 and all Public Updates released through June 2011 for the various applications that are part of the Office suite. To check the version number of your installation, go to File, Help. The version number
How to Import *.pst files into Outlook for Mac
When Outlook 2011 crashes with the following error message when you are trying import a .pst file into it Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close verify that you have the latest Office for Mac updates installed as well as Office for Mac Service Pack 1. The latest updates latest Office for Mac
Opening .exe Attachments and Outlook E-mail Security
The Outlook E-Mail Security Update (included in Office 2000 Service Pack 2 and later versions) blocks access to .exe, .com and other "dangerous" files. See Attachment Security for a list of the affected file types. You cannot open these files from Outlook, nor can you use Outlook to save them to your system. If you
Block Additional File Types in Outlook
How to block and unblock files types blocked by Outlook's attachment security feature.
Outlook 2010 Crashes While Reading Messages
Update: The Helvetica font issue is addressed by the hotfix in this article: Description of the Word 2010 hotfix package (Word-x-none.msp)- December 14, 2010 You can also install the update from Adobe to fix the problem. We're seeing some issues with Outlook 2010 crashing and restarting while reading messages. This may be caused by an
Understanding Outlook's AutoComplete Cache
Outlook stores recently used email addresses in a nickname or autocomplete cache. This article helps you understand how the nickname autocomplete cache works and explains remove names from this autocomplete list and where to find the list.
Birthdays recur every 12 Years
In this calendar sync bug, All Day events that recur yearly are changed to recur every 12 years. This bug first appeared with the release of Office 2007 SP2 and affects devices that sync with Outlook 2007 using ActiveSync. It may only affect users who sync their device between two different computers. The problem is