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How To Password Protect an Outlook PST File

If you’re on a shared computer without separate user accounts, you don’t want the other user(s) looking at your private email. Here’s how to password protect your Personal Folder (.pst) file in Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010.

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How to Automatically Change Incoming “Important” Emails into Normal Emails When Using Microsoft Outlook 2010

Have you ever received an email from someone marked as “IMPORTANT!” only to find out that it is some end-of-the-world hoax chain-email that is going around?  I’ve had my fair share, and I’ve also had enough.  The importance flag for emails in Outlook and elsewhere has been abused beyond forgiveness, and it’s time to make [...]

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How-To Clear the Outlook Email Address Auto Complete Cache

Microsoft Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 has a feature called Email Address Auto Complete which many of us take for granted every day. As you type an email address into the TO:,  CC: or BCC field Outlook will display a list of matching email addresses from the outlook auto-complete cache IE: Email addresses [...]

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How-To Save MS Office 2007 documents as a PDF or XPS

Shortly after upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007 I ran across this nice FREE add-on from Microsoft which allows you to save your documents in the Adobe PDF or Microsoft XPS format using all eight Microsoft Office 2007 applications.  I use the feature almost daily so I’m sure all you groovyReaders will appreciate the find!   [...]

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How to Import Multiple Contacts into Gmail from Outlook, Mail or Thunderbird

Moving from Outlook, Mail or Thunderbird to Gmail can be a real chore. If you have all of your contacts saved into a single vCard or vcf file exported from Outlook or Mail or whatever email client you were using before, then importing contacts into Gmail is significantly easier. But if you made the unfortunate [...]

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Microsoft Outlook Issue Reported by Microsoft

Aw Snap, Latest Outlook 2007 Update is Causing Issues- Mass Recall

Microsoft recently identified some critical flaws in Outlook 2007 update KB2412171.  The update was released December 14th and has been wreaking havoc on Outlook users ever since.  The bugs aren’t causing critical failures of the application so you may not even notice it however, chances are if you’ve used Outlook 2007 lately you already have [...]

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Office Tools: Print Overlain Calendars in Outlook with Calendar Printing Assistant

Outlook 2007 introduced a groovy feature where you can overlay multiple calendars in order to see two or more sets of appointments on a single calendar. This is similar to the feature you see in Google Calendars when you view multiple shared calendars at once. Overlain Outlook calendars is a great way to get your [...]

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 How-To Tips, Tricks and News

How To Add National Holidays To The Outlook 2010 Calendar

With the copious amount of Holidays around the world each year, it’s getting harder and harder at work trying to schedule a conference call with the entire team.  Huh?  Joe is off today celebrating the Queen’s birth day?  Super….  !  Or perhaps you need to know where a certain holiday is landing on the calendar [...]

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Forgotten Attachment Detector Warns of Missing Attachments in Microsoft Outlook

Forgotten Attachment Detector from Microsoft Office Labs is going to change your life. I don’t know about the rest of you Microsoft Outlook 2010 users, but every time someone sends me an email where they’ve forgotten an attachment, my regard for their intelligence is debased by two full percentage points. To make them feel even [...]

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Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Review: Facebook and Windows Live Added

The majority of users today hop online primarily to visit social networks and stay connected with friends and family. As such, developers are gearing more and more towards stitching together all of those social media experiences into the clients and applications we use most. Microsoft is no different. The Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta saw the [...]

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