We're seeing complaints that some parts of a message have characters 10 times larger than expected. The problem comes and goes, and doesn't affect all messages. When I send an email, the recipient receives my message with parts of the message having 120pt font characters. It's not reproducible. The cause is an antivirus scanner scanning
Error: Interface Not Registered
When using Outlook to send email errors may occur, including: Can not send email directly from Word or Excel Attaching a document into a new message results in error message of “Word unspecified error” or “interface not registered error 0x80040155” To fix: Close all office applications and go to Start menu, Run (or use Windows
View Attached Images in the Message, not as Attachments
Outlook Express displays image attachments at the bottom of the message and many users miss it when they switch to Outlook, because it doesn't support viewing images inline, and you need to open each image to view it. By design, Outlook only shows images "inline" (in the message body) when the message is sent using
Your IMAP Server Wants to Alert You...
Users report this problem: A box titled "Microsoft Office Outlook" comes up with an error message that there is a problem that the IMAP server. The error message says Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: 124 (1032) That mail is not currently available. The number 124 refers to message # 124;
Composing Complex HTML Mail Messages
Outlook 98 and later versions support sending and receiving mail in the HTML format used by many other Internet mail programs. Outlook 97 can neither send nor receive HTML formatted email. When a multipart HTML message is received by Outlook 97, the plain text portion of the message is displayed and the HTML portion is
Find All Unread Messages
How to use the Unread Search folder and Instant Search to find unread messages in your Microsoft Outlook mailbox.
Stop Showing Contact Pictures in Messages
You can add photos (or logos) to contacts in Outlook 2003 and up. When you add the photo, it displays in the Business card layout and also in the business card view in Contacts. This can be disabled.
No Automatic Signatures on Custom Forms & Templates
When you use custom forms or email templates, Outlook will add a signature to the form, if one is assigned to your email account. You can prevent this by adding a key to the registry. This key is an all-or-nothing deal - you can't apply it to some custom forms and not others. If you
Apostrophe & quotation marks are inserted with extra spaces
Every so often we see a question from someone asking why Outlook adds an extra space following apostrophes. This isn’t an Outlook problem, but it is a sign we spend too much time in Outlook… This is caused by Contextual spelling in Office and using French language settings (If you aren't using French language settings
Using "Boilerplate text" Templates
Many users who need to send out a standard reply on a regular basis save a copy to Drafts then try to figure out ways to reuse the draft. While this is not the best method for reusing boiler plate messages, if you choose to do it this way, copy the draft (select it, Ctrl+C,