Aiding productivity in Outlook

 

Templates for email message

To create a template message in outlook 365

1.  Open a new message.
2. Look at the ribbon bar and select View Template 

A sidebar should open as below with built in templates In.

Press the  Template + Symbol the sidebar will Change.

Type in the Title and the body of the text you want to appear in the e-mail, Close the window.

Your new template has been created and will appear in the list. Click on the template t use.

See LinkedIn Details in Outlook

 If contact sync is enabled for LinkedIn by your administrator you can view contact information etc from LinkedIn. Right click the email address from the sender, then click the Linked in icon.   If the contact has a LinkedIn account the details will be displayed.

How To Display Outlook Notes in One Note

 

To display your Outlook notes in One Note Office 365 Only.

Click the paper Icon in the upper right corner of the Ribbon menu bar'

A side bar will appear Log in with your Office 365 Username and password. One Note will search for your Outlook Notes, you can add new notes to Outlook.

Outlook 365 desktop not recieving Mail

I had an occation today to look at a machine that would not receive mail. Outlook had two mail accounts the primary and a second one.

    I checked all the settings and could not find any reason for no mail going to the primary account. I closed outlook down and opened the mail in the control panel. 

    A quick glance gave me no clues as everything looked correct, then i noticed that the primary email was not set as primary in the in the data section of the setup. I corrected this and mail started to arrive, not something i would have thought possibe.

Surly this is a Microsoft feature that is not required.

Can Not Reinstall Outlook 365

This week we had an issue with Outlook not sending emails to the server. We tried all the normal fixes repair, restart etc but no luck.
The next idea was to reinstall office 365 so a quick uninstall and there it was gone, a quick reboot to get rid of any registry keys that where hanging about.
    The installer was downloaded from the Microsoft site and  hung when trying to install. After a half dozen attempts it was time to talk to the might Google, and it came up with as file to completely remove office from the computer as it seems that some bits sometimes remain stopping the reinstalling.

Download the  o15-ctrremove cab file, ran it and after a quick reboot was able to reinstall Office 365 No problem.

You can download it Here   or seach Google for a Copy Here

Hope this helps you.

A Cautionary E-mail Tale

           

              I recently received an email telling me that I need to take £500 to the post office to pay for my euros. I was a bit baffled as i had not ordered any currency.
I looked at the email address and saw it was my old Hotmail address.  SCAM jumped into my mind so I dug deep and checked the header info on the e-mail and it all looked genuine. On the phone to a number for the company, I had off the net not the one I'm the email, think premium rate. 

           Anyway it turns out that the email address should have had an underscore on not a dot. Not a scam but a mistake but beware I would not have thought that they would allow to addresses so alike. Then I thought this was nearly 20 years old not so security conscious then. 

So beware old email  addresses can be dangerous

Stop Outlook message from Archiving

To stop an individual message from archive

1. Open the message 
2. Go to the properties of the message
3. Tick do not AutoArchive this item
4. Press close

Job Done

Send e-mail from Outlook from VB.NET

 To create an Outlook e-mail message in VB.net (2005)

Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop



  Dim OutlookMessage As Outlook.MailItem
        Dim AppOutlook As New Outlook.Application
        Try
            OutlookMessage = AppOutlook.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem)
            Dim Recipents As Outlook.Recipients = OutlookMessage.Recipients
            Recipents.Add("nick.gough@sprintcare.com")
            OutlookMessage.Subject = comid
            OutlookMessage.Body = "Testing outlook Mail"
            OutlookMessage.BodyFormat = Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML
            OutlookMessage.Attachments.Add(myfile)
'##use  this to ----- to Open the message for editing
            OutlookMessage.Display() 

or
            OutlookMessage.Send()
to send message
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show("Mail could not be sent") 'if you dont want this message, simply delete this line
        Finally
            OutlookMessage = Nothing
            AppOutlook = Nothing
        End Try