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    - order of files Hi there When I go to the attach files option, the files are in reverse alphabetical order. How do I change it so it lists the files alphabetically. -- Thank-you! Ruth Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577900
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    - Outlook 2003 Reply to message enlarges text When I reply to email messages in Outlook, the reply message font is really really large. However, format settings still indicate Arial 10pt font. Even from the Tools>Options>Mail Format>Fonts section. I'm suspicious that this change happened when I replied to an email and when scrolling my cursor, accidentally pushed on my mouse roller. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577899
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    - how do I create dist list from inbound email addresses? I am using Outlook 2002. I want to create a distribution email list using the email addresses from an inbound email. There are 50 plus email address and I want to avoid re keying every address into a new distribution list. How can I import/export those address from my inbox to a distribution list in my contacts? Thanks, John - Wisconsin Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577898
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    - I am receiving Hyperlinks when I send an HTML to myself. Why? When I send an HTML email, I also send to myself as a test. Others receive it properly, however, when I receive it, it comes through at several hyperlinks. Other people can email me just fine. It's only when I am emailing a test to myself. Why? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577894
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    - Automatically open two calendars at the same time Using Outlook 2007. I want my calendar and another calendar that I have permission to see to automatically open at the same time. In other words, when I open my calendar, I want both calendars to open in split screen view. Is this possible? Thanks for the help. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577891
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    - "Operation failed" when trying to save For two days I've been getting an "Operation Failed" message when trying to save mail to my usual place (not in Outlook's personal folders). I have run the Office 2007 diagnostics and no problem was reported. I tried to run "repair" Microsoft Office from the Control Panel, but got the following message: "Error 1310. Error writing to file: C:\config.msi\9766d.rbf Verify that you have access to that directory" I have failed to even find that file or folder on my hard drive. I also do not know if the latter problem has anything to do with my Outlook problem. I have "repaired" Office 2007 in the past with no problem. The most recent software I have installed is Carbonite, the online storage program, and ESET NOD32 antivirus. However, they produced no immediate problem with Outlook. I have also tried disabling both programs to see if I can save my mail, but it made no difference. Thanks in advance Wayne Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577889
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    - Wrong receive data mail after import from Outlook Express to 2003 I Imported my emails from Outlook Express 6.0 to Outlook 2003 and some emails change the original received data for the data of the day it was made. Please, help. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577881
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    - BCC field in Sent Items I'm currently using Outlook 2003 (part of an Office package) at work. For a majority of the emails I send, I can no longer view the BCC field in my Sent Items. If it's to a small list of recipients, it usually shows (although not always), but when I send mass emails (which is my job -- I send bulk email communications for my firm), the names no longer show up in the bcc field in the Sent Item. Oddly, if I do a "find" search in my Sent Items folder, I can see that a message went to someone, but when I open the message, it doesn't actually show their display name in the BCC field. This is especially problematic for the "I didn't get that message" complaints. I can't believe this is an "upgrade" from the previous version, but I've never had a problem with this in any other version we used before. Please don't answer "upgrade", as that's not an option when you work at a large firm and don't have control over which software you use. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577879
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    - Re: Help please!! copying e-mails into a new computer including the date field.. so if the pst file contains all the contacts/address book info why isn't it showing up if all the other e-mail data is correct now? what step did I miss? Thx! Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577875
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    - cc's not being sent to both parties A user receives e-mail for 2 parties, himself with his in-box, and for another user via a distribution group. If both he and the other user are cc'ed, his inbox does not receive the cc, but the distribution group for the other user does. Why does the user with the in-box not receive the cc??? The first user is a member of the distribution group for the other user. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577873
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    - Removing "click here to add a new contact" line When I open up my contacts in Outlook there is a row just beneath the fields line that says "click here to add a new contact". I find this very disturbing and would like to remove it. Can someone please tell me how to do this. I have racked my brain and cannot figure it out. Thanks in advance for the help. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577865
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    - Keep Outlook settings when Attaching Word or Excel Document How do I keep my Auto Signature, Sent and delivered receipts setting on. I constanly send out email, via outlook with attachements from Word and Excel. I usually go to the menu of Word or Excel, and use the Send to option. Outlook opens up, with the document I have open in Word or Excel, but my Signature, and my Sent and Delevered message options are not active. Where would I go to automatically have these features turned on when I am attaching files from other MS Products. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577864
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    - Outlook calendar appointments... We have outlook 2000, 2003, and some users have 2007. The ones in question here are for 2000. The organizer of a calender appointment sends out a calender appointment...the recepient can view the calendar and any/all comments or attachments included but once the recepient adds their comments etc and forwards the calendar appointment...the recepient of the forwarded calendar appointment can only see the comments etc. in the view pane. If, they open the appointment there are no comments etc. seen in the message area. Is this some setting I'm overseeing ? Can someone please advise how to fix ? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577863
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    - Resetting Outlook to a first run condition We have upgraded from Microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2007 on all of our networked computers. If a user logs in to their system for the for the first time after the upgrade and trys to start Outlook with out first starting the Word application (as they have been directed to) Outlook will not open correctly and request information such as Exchange server name ect. (which the user does not have). The only way that I have been able to correct this issue is to rename the user's profile, and then have the user log back in and re-create their profile and start with the Word application before trying to open Outlook. Older versions of Outlook had a fix that would reset Outlook to a first run condition, and I'm wondering if there is a simular fix for Outlook 2007. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577862
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    - Meeting request issue We use Office 2007 and when sending out a meeting request from Outllok 2007, some of the users get the following instead of the request: BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;CN=alan.moore@kysu.edu;CUTYPE=RESOURCE;ROLE=NON-PARTICIPANT;RSV P=T RUE:mailto:alan.moore@kysu.edu ATTENDEE;CN=apreske@buffalotrace.com;CUTYPE=RESOURCE;ROLE=NON-PARTICIPAN T;R SVP=TRUE:mailto:apreske@buffalotrace.com ATTENDEE;CN=bjohnson1@fewpb.net;CUTYPE=RESOURCE;ROLE=NON-PARTICIPANT;RSV P=T RUE:mailto:bjohnson1@fewpb.net ATTENDEE;CN=barb8979@aol.com;CUTYPE=RESOURCE;ROLE=NON-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=T RUE :mailto:barb8979@aol.com ATTENDEE;CN=wrightbarbara@hotmail.com;CUTYPE=RESOURCE;ROLE=NON-PARTICIPA NT; Please help!!! Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577860
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    - Crash on "searching" in Outlook 2007 hi all, I have couple users have the same problems. When they tried to use the find feature in Outlook to search for some emails, it crashed. There will be send or don't send button. After that, Outlook will need to be restarted. The error is "Faulty Applicatoin, version 12.0.06212.1000, 46e03e45". Why does this happen, and how to fix it? My co-worker said disabling "Instant search in Outlook options" will help? Hope you can help. Thank you so much. popy Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577856
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    - blocking specific senders in office outlook web access I am connected to an exchange through my work. I need to block specific senders and not have them go to my junk file. How can I do this? What do I tell my IT guy? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577854
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    - Importing txt file to Outlook - mapping custom fields fails Outlook 2007/Excel 2007/Access 2007 Hello, I have vacations requested stored in Access 2007. I'd like to export these to an Outlook 2007 calendar. I've tried the following procedures: 1) Export from Access to Excel in Excel 2003 format. 2) Converted Excel 2003 format to text, tab delimited. When I tried to import either of these formats I run into the same problem. When I get to the custom-map-fields dialog of the import wizard, I never get the option to click OK. I have only three fields: Name, Date, and Type of Leave. I drag the fields into the following Outlook fields: Name=Subject Date=All Day Event Type of Leave=Location However only the active buttons are Next, Previous, and Cancel. I tried renaming the Excel fields to correspond to the Outlook field names so I won't have to custom map, but nothing gets imported. What may I be doing wrong? Thanks. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577844
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    - Outlook 2007 will not start I have a fairly new computer, 2 Gig RAM, dual processor Vista Business, all updates Office Ultimatum 2007, all updates, SP1 I tried to import data from a pst. Outlook frozed. Used Task Manager to stop it. Outlook will not open. I used scanpst multiple times. I tried a new profile. I tried to remove Office 2007 and could not. I used the MS KB to manually delete office. I deleted all existing pst from my computer. I reinstalled Office 2007. All functions of Office 2007 work EXCEPT Outlook. I can open Outlook in Safe Mode, but I cannot open it normally. It is "hung up" on the set up screen right after I told it no to using it for email. Any ideas? -- Dennis Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577840
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    - FILE TOO LARGE WILL NOT SEND How do I delete a file in my outbox that has been trying to send for over 2 months? I've tried moving it to my inbox to delete and also tried to delete in my outbox. HOW CAN I GET RID OF THIS? PLEASE HELP. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577836
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    - e-mail from Russia i am getting e-mail that looks like it comes from Russia (funny looking letters) i keep adding them to my block senders list however i seem to be getting more and more fo them lately (200 plus a day) I would like to make a rule to just delete them but i can not find the letters anywhere to type into the rule. Can anyone help me with this Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577830
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    - Large email stuck in Outbox Cannot delete email that has been "transmitting" for 2 days. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577827
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    - Help please!! copying e-mails into a new computer including the date field.. Hi all, hopefully someone here can tell me if this is possible as I haven't been able to find a way to do this. the story goes, I bought a new computer, loaded my office suite (2003 pro) onto it and proceeded to load the address book files I'd copied (.csv files) into outlook by importing them. Come to find out after importing them the date field isn't included with all the imported/saved e-mails. The column is there but instead of a date it reads "None". I also pulled the hard drive from the old machine & pulgged it into the new machine as a backup & so i could transfer all my other files/folders w/o hassle. since I've pulled it out of the old machine I assume I'd have to make it the primary drive again to get Outlook to access it again & display all the old e-mails which perhaps I could copy over in some other method then the one I used. I cant be the only guy who's had this problem. I don't pretend to be any kind of a computer geek either, I've reached my limit of what to do 8o . I'm hoping this is a result of my screwing it up, not that Outlook isn't capable of doing this. Does anyone know a better, more complete method of copying/importing all my old with all the fields into a new copy of Outlook? Any help / response would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Evan Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577819
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    - Outlook 2003 contacts/calendar I had an issue with my computer and experienced the "blue screen of death", and the ensuing "beginning dump of physical memory" message. subsequently, i lost my entire profile, and all of my email, contacts and calendar from Outlook 2003. I was able to recover my email, but am hitting a dead end trying to find and recover my contacts and calendar. any suggestions? thanks, -- TM Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577816
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    - Export Autocomplete Info Is there a way to export the autocomplete information to another program such as excel or word? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577815
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    - outlook 2007 did not close properly We have tried everything we could possible try and some of our end users are still getting outlook did not close properly . We are running Outlook 2007 Service Pack 1 in cache mode using unicode OST file. This is on windows XP service Pack 2 OS. Thanks in advance, Eric Sabo Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577807
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    - Outlook reboots HI all, I have a xp pro machine with outlook 2007 installed. Everytime I try to type in a email address outlook reboots and wants to send a report to microsoft. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this issue. -- Jeffrey Turner Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577801
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    - Exchange server prompts re-authentication for shared calendar. I have a problem where Useres who are accesing my Exchange server are require to input authentication info when they attempt to view someone esles calendar. I have all the permissions configured as reviewer. This seems to happen only in Outlook 2003 and happens to some people and does not happen to other people. I have yet to figure out what the people who have the problem have in common. If the usere clicks cancel, the shared calendar comes up no problem and they are not prompted for another login for the rest of the Outlook session. If they click OK, the authentication screen is immediately refreshed so on until they hit cancel. Does anyone know how to fix this without just finding a round-about? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577800
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    - Public Folder and Copying Email Question Question. If a user copies or moves an email to a public folder, do they retain a copy of the email in their inbox or inbox folder structure? Scott Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577795
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    - OL not updating NK2 file on exit - loses AutoComplete email addresses Hi all, I have the latest Outlook 2007 but for a month have noted that it no longer saves changes to the AutoComplete email addresses that are held in the My Profile.nk2 file. I believe this is because OL is not shutting down properly, however I have closed all other tasks/services that could be using it. If I Ctrl+Alt+Del to kill outlook.exe, then it does not save to NK2, yet there is no other way to close OL. At least I think that's the reason NK2 is not updating. I did some experiments and did get Outlook to close by itself, and it DID save NK2 changes that one time, but it has not been able to close by itself since. Is there a way to make saving of NK2 more regular? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577794
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    - Autocompleted Email Addresses Email addresses automatically complete when typing the 1st letter(s) in the "to", or "cc" fields of an Outlook email message. That's great. But why do the autocomplete entries resemble those from other people's address books instead of mine? For instance, the first time I send an email it is to "Firstname Lastname (email@company.com)", so I can see their full name, in addition to their email address. That works fine until I receive an email from somebody else who cc's that same person but doesn't have as clean of a definition for their name. Once I click "reply-to-all", Outlooks decides to redefine my autocomplete for that contact. So now I have the truncated email@company.com, which might not have any relationship to the person's name. How can I prevent Outlook from replacing my definition of a contact in the autocomplete function with other users' cc definitions? Thanks! Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577782
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    - Outlook 2007 inbox empties when anoter folder is opened When I open a folder such as saved or sent Outlook complty empties the inbox. Then I am unable to locate the email messages. This is a problem that has just started; but it is vey annoying. I have lost messages that I have never read. Any suggestions? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577776
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    - Emails written in Japanese Do emails that are written in Japanese occupy more disk place on an Exchange 2003 Store than those written in Engilsh? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577773
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    - Outlook 2000 error opening Personal Folders When I try to expand Personal Folders, I get this error: "Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened. The information store could not be opened." I ran the Inbox Repair Tool, with no effect (it found only minor inconsistencies). I've been unable to find any information relevant to this particular error. Can anyone help? Thanks. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577764
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    - Sort by Subject shows blank subjects ... Hello - I'm using Outlook 2003 (SP2) and every now and then when I try to sort by subject by selecting an e-mail in my Inbox and clicking on the Subject column header, it sorts the e-mails but it does loses the e- mail I had selected. It shows the very first e-mail with a blank subject instead. Is this a known bug and is there a workaround? It is really driving me crazy ... Thanks! Joe Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577761
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    - Missing Shortcuts The automatic update just installed for Outlook 2003, and now all of my shortcuts are missing. This is the second time an Outlook update did this, and it takes a while to re-create these shortcuts. Are these saved in a file I could restore? Or perhaps a registry entry? Does uninstalling the update return my settings? Please help, Thank you. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577754
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    - outlook 2007 and outlook 2002 one computer has 2003 and one has 2007, both versions have the same POP mail account attached. never been a problem before but all of sudden today-2007 will not send/receive any mail, 2003 will. also any mail opened in 2003 will no longer come over to 2007. these are on business computers, but our company is too small for an IT dept so I hope someone can help me. Thank you! Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577748
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    - How to setup Outlook to not remove original mails from mailbox? When MS outlook is down loading my emails some times some problem may occure and I lost my internet connection and also I lost the some mails too. MS outlook moves all of the incoming mails and cleans the original one at the mail box. How can I configure my MS outlook wich could copy the mails from original place and don't clear them? Thanks and regards Ramazany, Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577734
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    - Attachments in forwarded messages are garbled but fine in new mess When I send a new Outlook message to a particular recipient using Outlook 2003, and the e-mail has an attachment ina format such as pdf, jpg or wmv, teh recipient can open the attachment. If, however, I forward an e-mail with the same attachment to this same recipient, the attachment appears as garbled text within the e-mail message. Any idea what I need to do, or the recipient needs to do on their side, to coorect this problem? Thanks Al Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577733
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    - OUT OF OFFICE ASSISTANT (URGENT) I am planning to leave for sometime for vacations. I want to use the feature of Out of Office assistant. What would be the requirements? I have my account setup on Microsoft Exchange Server namely: nib-exchange02.nibpk.com My computer would obviously be turned off in my absence. -- Best Regards, FARAZ A. QURESHI Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577731
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    - Outlook BCC problem When I receive an email message (with Outlook 2003/Vista Ultimate) from someone with all recipients in "bcc", the message comes through with the Internet headers showing within the message and any attachments show in ASCII text format. If even one address, i.e. the sender's, is included in the "to" field, the messages come through clean. Interestingly, I can receive the same e-mail message on another machine (Outlook 2007/Vista Premium) on the LAN without loss of formatting. Additionally, those messages can then be â??Forwardedâ?? -- going back through the ISP -- to the Outlook 2003 machine with original formatting remaining intact. Does anyone have a suggestion(s) on how to fix this? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577728
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    - does having a WEP effect outlook trying to set up outlook on personal computer, have all the user information, log in data, and the pop3 and smtp data but when finished setting up, and do the test account settings, it fails. I am using a wireless router with WEP, could this be affecting my set-up of outlook and causing it to fail? If this is what is causing the problem, how do I get around it? Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577726
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    - I can't use command line /f to open a message file I can't use the command line swich /f in outlook to open a message file. the whole command is c:\program file\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe /f R1010.msg I encounter the following error Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Can't open file: r0101.msg, The file may not exist, you may not have the permission to open it , or it may be open in another program. right-click the folder that contains the file and then click properties to check your permission for the folder I check the file exists, not used by other program and the premission is granted. Any one can help? thanks Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577722
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    - Vista and Outlook 2003 When I open Outlook 2003 it stays open for 15 secs gets mail opens contacts then 'error' Microsoft Office has stopped working Have done an uninstall and reinstall......no change. have ensured default programmes are OK. Looks like a conflict this is the output from problem reports Problem signature Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: OUTLOOK.EXE Application Version: 11.0.8206.0 Application Timestamp: 479fce0d Fault Module Name: msmapi32.dll Fault Module Version: 11.0.8200.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 472f94b0 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00007a1b OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 2057 Any ideas what the solution might be Thanks for any help Len Short Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577721
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    - Sent items - enabling it so they're not sent to myself! Hello I wonder if you can help me (and I apologise if this question has been answered a million times before). My inbox is split into folders and when I send an email I file it into the correct folder. It comes up looking like I've sent it to myself which is obviously a problem when I try to find an email I sent to someone. Is it possible to change it so it is filed with the recepient showing? The only thing I can think of is to split the sent items into folders, but I would prefer all the relevant sent/received emails to be in the same folder. Any help would be much appreciated thank you! Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577719
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    - Name change - user got married Hi, we are running Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. One of my users got married and changed her name. I have renamed her account in AD and her Exchange mailbox now displays the new name correctly. However, her Outlook client still shows her maiden name at the top of the tree next to "Mailbox". I have marked her mailbox for deletion and reconnected it but to no avail. The option within Outlook to change the name is greyed out. Does anyone have any idea how I can progress this? -- Many Thanks Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577718
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    - Work online and offline Hi, brand new Vista PC (months old) with Office 2007 basic. One exchange server problem and the Outlook goes off-line. Not normally a problem, except this time the Work online option is missing from the file menu in Outlook. It was able to send e-mails but not receive them. Set up a new profile would not work - Outlook had become so confused it couldn't recognise the change. There are two issues - Why is the software so flaky and more importantly, how do I get the work offline/online option back on the file menu? (It's there on other PCs, just not this one). The offline icon in the taskbar didn't offer any options nor did the little message on the bottom RH of Outlook saying it was off-line. Obviously a Vista/Outlook2007 corruption I know. Thank god for rebooting, that got Outlook to come back up online. There is no cached mode set (I find that causes probs all of its own and can slow things down enormously for large pst files). So, to get to the point, does anyone know how to re-instate the "work online/offline" option in Outlook? Sorry to moan so much about Vista, but the more I see it the less I like it. Wasn't it meant to be better than XP? Seems just as buggy to me. Confession - SP1 not yet installed on this machine. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577711
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    - Giving password to mails Hi everybody, Is there a way to protect my e-mail account in Ms-Outlook? I have outlook 2003 installed in a single computer which can be accessed by every one in my home and have three more e-mail accounts. Now I want to provide different passwords to prevent others from reading my e-mails. Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577709
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    - SCHEDULE AN EMAIL How can I have a draft email be sent/delivered on a specific time/date? -- Best Regards, FARAZ A. QURESHI Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577706
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    - Outlook 2002 Spell checker Outlook 2002 now displays an error message - "An error occurred when checking spelling" - also the edit customer dist dumps me in a directory that doesn't appear to have a .dic file in it? Any ideas? Seems that a file pointer has gone astray? All I did was try to change the dictionary from US English to UK English! Tag: why do i have a from box? Tag: 577705

Every time I "create new email message" I get a From box above the To:, CC:,
and Subj: box that I have to put my own email address into. It didnt used to
do this, and it is just bothering me. How do I make it automatic again?

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Re: why do i have a from box? by Roady

Roady
Wed May 14 14:12:57 PDT 2008

You don't have to specify anything in the From box.
Instruction on how to make it go away from view depends on your version of
Outlook and possibly your e-mail editor. You didn't post any such info.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"richard.mcginn" <richard.mcginn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9C5A1FAA-E2F1-4079-9B7C-E454124D7CBE@microsoft.com...
> Every time I "create new email message" I get a From box above the To:,
> CC:,
> and Subj: box that I have to put my own email address into. It didnt used
> to
> do this, and it is just bothering me. How do I make it automatic again?

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