Technical Tips & Tricks

Q: Winmail.dat sent as an email attachment in Outlook. A: Follow these steps: Add the DisableTNEF registry entry. To do this, follow these steps: Exit Outlook 2010. Start Registry Editor. In Windows 7, click Start , type regedit in the Search programs and files box, and then press Enter. In Windows Vista, click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press Enter. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation. In Windows XP, click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then select the following registry subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Preferences On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. Type DisableTNEF, and then press Enter. Right-click DisableTNEF, and then click Modify. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK. Exit Registry Editor. Restart the computer.

Q: Email received from a sender using Outlook includes a Winmail.dat attachment. A:Method 1: Change the default message format The sender can change the format of the email messages that they send by using the following steps: On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Mail Format. In Compose in this message format, click to select Plain Text, and then click OK. NOTE: To send to certain recipients that use RTF format and others recipients that use plain text format, the sender must set the option for the recipient in either the Personal Address Book or the recipient's contact record. Method 2: Modify the recipient's entry in the Personal Address Book The sender can use the following steps to remove the RTF format from the recipient attribute in the Personal Address Book: On the Tools menu, click Address Book. In Show Names From, click the Personal Address Book. Select the addressee that you want to set as plain text, and then click Properties on the File menu. In the S...

Q1.Outlook crashes upon send/receive Symptoms: Whenever I try to send a message, click on the Send/Receive button or when Outlook sends/receives by itself, Outlook crashes. I can still use all the other functions in Outlook and Outlook works just fine when I place it in Offline mode. However, it would be nice to be able to send/receive some new emails as well. A: There are a couple of common causes and solutions for this. Disable virus scanner integration : This is really where to start. If you still have a virus scanner installed which integrates itself with Outlook, disable this integration and try again. Turning off your virus scanner will not disable its integration components. Consult the documentation of your virus scanner on how to properly disable its mail integration components. You can also opt to uninstall your virus scanner completely to make sure it cannot interfere while testing. Afterwards you can install it again without the mail scanning features or use Microsoft ...

Q.Message stuck in Outbox!  Not able to delete the email from outbox.?? A: If you are not able to delete the emails in your outlook program do the following.  1.  Put Outlook in offline mode.  To do this go to File-> Work Offline or send/Receive.  2. Now restart Outlook and see if you can delete it (you can try this in combination with method 1).  3. Don’t forget to put Outlook back On-line again. 4. Try to create a new profile to see if there is some in the pst data file. 5.Try to restart outlook in safe mode using the following command in RUN Window. outlook /safe.

Add checkbox in your outlook(2010/2013) emails.?? To do this: Open the View Tab. Click on view settings. Click New Column button. Create a custom field of the Yes/No type and add it to the view. Move it on the top. Click Other Settings. Enable in-cell editing so you can check (or uncheck) it to mark an item. Return to Outlook. Click in the column you just added to mark a message Note: The actual checkbox may not be visible in the column until you click it.

Plain text emails appear in a white (invisible) font in Outlook 2013.??   Please follow these steps to resolve it!!   1.File > Options > Mail > Stationery and Fonts , then clicking the Font button under Composing and reading plain text messages . The font colour should normally be set to Automatic , and in our case it was inexplicably set to white. Setting it back to Automatic immediately solved the problem. Bizarrely, even though the Font color was set to white (as shown in the above screenshot), you can see that this was not reflected in the preview on either the Font dialog or the preceding Signatures and Stationery dialog.   Hope this will work for you as well!!