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There appears to be no such straight forward solution from Microsoft. There are third party software/plugins that do that and they are not free, not to mention some are complicated to use. The idea with Mail Merge is not just … Continue reading →

So I got this error when a developer was emailing me a js file: "Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments…" Solution (from: sitepoint): 1. Close Outlook 2. Run regedit.exe Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeXX.XOutlookSecurity Where XX.X indicates your version … Continue reading →

This is fun. First it was ClickOnce, where you can have setup program that updates itself when necessary on every run. Now, VSTO beats document level macro. Sample reference: 1. To create right click menu in Word in VSTO: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd554969(v=vs.140).aspx … Continue reading →

No add-in in Word 2013. Make sure to enabled macro trust in Options. To avoid error 4605 during add-in install: Options>General>Unchecked "Open e-mail attachments and other uneditable files in reading view" If Margin keeps showing zero: Options>Display>Checked "Show white space … Continue reading →

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It appears that one can actually disable the junk mail completely...rather than the popularly acclaimed that you couldn't touch some built-in filtering mechanism in Outlook. This is done at registry level. There's also the case where junk manager doesn't work … Continue reading →

This is Indexing problem. Type Indexing Options. Get Indexing running. If not, Run in services.msc>Windows Search, if can't, be sure to start with Administrator's privilege, if not, use command "runas /user:<computername>\administrator cmd" If still can't start Windows Search in services, … Continue reading →

Windows Drive Mapping may not stay connected the next time. One way (official way) to ensure of it, instead of using startup script, etc., is net use persistence. net use /PERSISTENT:yes then do drive mapping. Mapping persistence status can be … Continue reading →

Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010: 100,000 items per folder 500 folders total Outlook 2007: 50,000 items per folder 500 folders total Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2768656/outlook-performance-issues-when-there-are-too-many-items-or-folders-in If exceeded, the client will perform slowly.

Outlook doesn't like using Wildcards so much, but there's some tips: https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/rules/create-a-rule-with-wildcards/ Outlook doesn't support wildcards in rules, so you can't use use a * or ? character for wildcards. Instead, just specify the string you want to match. For example, … Continue reading →