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Microsoft Outlook Data Backup Utility

by Mike McEvoy on September 16, 2009

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Email continues to grow in importance to many people’s daily life. As part of that growth millions of people use Microsoft Outlook everyday for reading and managing their email. To help individual Outlook users protect their valuable data Microsoft provides an Outlook data backup utility named “Personal Folder Backup.” This free, easy to install utility [...]

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Microsoft Outlook Tip – Changing Default Fonts and Statio

by MikeM on January 27, 2009

Outlook allows you some control over how your email messages look. Within Outlook 2003 & 2007 it is possible to change the default font, its point size, style (bold, italic) and color. The same level of control is also available for the font you use in replying to or forwarding a message. A separate set [...]

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Email Security Tip – When Asked To Forward To A Group, Think Twice

by MikeM on January 7, 2009

Periodically I receive emails that tell me to read them and forward them on to many people. They usually include phrases like, “Please forward this warning to all your friends, family and contacts” or “Big Virus coming – Read and Forward.”  Many of these emails also say things like “I checked on snopes.com” or “I [...]

Tagged as: Internet_Security, Outlook, Spam

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Microsoft Outlook Email Clean Up Tips

by MikeM on December 30, 2008

Clean Up Outlook Email Deleted Items
Housecleaning isn’t always fun, but most people feel much better after it is done. An often overlooked Microsoft Outlook email clean up task for Microsoft Outlook is emptying the Deleted Items folder. Most people probably don’t need to hang onto messages or junk mail that they deleted back in 2004 [...]

Tagged as: Maintenance, MS Office, Outlook

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Backing Up MS Outlook Data

by MikeM on March 26, 2008

Question: I want to make a backup of my Outlook data. Where is it stored on my computer?
Answer:  Backing up your Outlook data is complicated by the fact that Microsoft does not make it easy to find the data. By default Outlook stores its data in a single file named “outlook.pst”. However the location [...]

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Using Microsoft Outlook to Access Comcast Account Email

by MikeM on February 22, 2008

Questions: I have a Comcast email account that I access through my web browser (Internet Explorer) but I would like to access my Comcast email through Microsoft Outlook. Can I do this?
Answer: Yes. You can configure Outlook to communicate with Comcast’s email servers. This will allow you to download your email into Outlook and then [...]

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