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Just about anyone who runs mail servers needs to look at headers from time to time. This is especially true during the development of product such as Exchange, as we track down and fix bugs. I wrote this little macro to make that a little easier. Select
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For certain types of folders, you may find it useful to have the folder list display the total number of items in the folder, not just the unread items (which it does by default). For example, I set this on some folders that contain messages to certain
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While ego surfing I just ran across this handy list of cheat sheets that I wanted to share. Covers topics from HTML to networking to office apps to keyboard shortcuts to SCSI to math. Handy.
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Here's Part One . OK this isn't really a continuation of the history, but rather some more rambling on some of what I discussed in part one. I just wanted an excuse to say "Part Deux". After the news reports about the first big email-borne viruses like
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Several times in the last few months I've needed to send the exact same mail content to a list of people, but each mail had to be separately addressed, for the following reasons: I am expecting each recipient to reply and continue the thread with me.
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Yikes, it's been a while since I've posted... and to think for the first 9 months of this blog, I think I posted every single day. I guess I just don't have that much content and I wore it out early... but in reality I think it's more due to my new working
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When you type ":-)" in Word, it automatically corrects it into a smiley ( J )[1], which is the letter J in the Wingdings font. If you look at the HTML, you'll see: <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:maroon'>J</span>
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We recently had a debate on the internal bloggers distribution list about how MSDN bloggers need to play nice and not hard-code their font faces, colors and sizes. I admit that I'd been guilty of this myself, so I've since resolved to stop doing that,
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This is one of those features that a lot of people love to hate, where you have to wait a few seconds or go to the little chevron on the bottom of the menu to expand it: It doesn't bug me too much - except when it hides the MRU (most recently used) list
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I got myself into a bad state a while back where I was unable to open messages attached to other items. It happened while I was monkeying around with this custom form which adds a column to the view. I don't remember exactly how I got into the bad state,
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A few months ago I posted about [what I think is] a neat way of using Outlook's ability to save as HTML . Today when compiling a powerpoint presentation , it occurred to me that there are a lot of formats that Office applications can save into that I
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Bob asked in the comments on this article if it's possible to add a tooltip to a button. Here's one way to do it programmatically for your own buttons. The below example adds a custom button to the standard toolbar and assigns it a tooltip. Note that
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I saw this discussion on Jonathan's blog , so here's one option: #1: Follow the instructions in this article with this code: Public Sub EmptyJunkEmailFolder() Dim outapp As Outlook.Application Set outapp = CreateObject("outlook.application") Dim olitem
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John Durant recently blogged about his macro to create a task from an e-mail. I thought that was a great idea, so I modified it a bit to suit my purposes. I frequently take an item from my inbox and Edit | Move to Folder and move it to the tasks folder,
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First, let me preface this entry by saying that I am an abysmal programmer. I use my basic programming skills to write code that helps me do things in the applications I use, and since these are usually one-time things, I don't worry too much about performance
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