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Custom Outlook 2007 Warning

by Scott | Jan 30, 2008 | Microsoft, MS Office

I found something else to hate about office 2007 recently as I attempted to add a contact to Outlook, this time on a newly configured laptop. Like I usually would, I right clicked on the e-mail address of the person who sent me the message, and chose “Add to...

Modify Save Attachment Dialog Box

by Scott | Jan 25, 2008 | Computers - How to, MS Office, Productivity

In previous versions of MS Office, it was possible to modify your “save attachment as” dialog box with folders that you prefer, but in Office 2007, that option appeared to be gone thanks to this blog post I now know how to do it in the current version of...

Why Not Use Outlook 2007?

by Scott | Jan 9, 2008 | Microsoft, MS Office

Sorry, here’s another quick thing that sucks about Office 2007, this time in Outlook. (There are so many things to hate in Office 2007 that I’ve added now added MS Office to my blog as it’s own subcategory of Microsoft for future rants.) A client...

Office 2007 SP1 Finally Released

by Scott | Dec 17, 2007 | Microsoft, MS Office

Do you suppose many of the problems users have been experiencing with Office 2007 will be fixed now, with the release of the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 ? Call me a skeptic, but i’m not gettign my hopes up. I am, however, downloading it as we speak, because at...

MSN / Live / Microsoft (Whatever) Showing Backlinks Again

by Scott | Dec 15, 2007 | Microsoft

Live Search is finally showing backlink counts and locations again. In March of 2007, Microsoft announced that they were no longer able to support backlink checks through their search platform. The reason (they said) was because they noticed too many automated...

Limit Large Attachment Downloads in Outlook 2007

by Scott | Dec 4, 2007 | Microsoft, MS Office

As I feared, I’m now in my hotel trying to download 26 megs of mail on my (far too slow) Verizon Wireless Broadband service. Before I left, I forgot to limit my file attachment size for download. Once it’s finally done, I’ll do the following in...