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Questions tagged [microsoft-outlook-2007]

Outlook 2007 is a version of Microsoft Outlook, released in 2006. It is widely used for email, calendar, contacts, and notes.

Outlook 2007 is included with all versions of except the Home and Student edition.

New Features

Outlook's message writing interface now sports the interface. In addition, it added some new functionality, such as RSS feed reading and texting support.

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How to get back a declined Outlook invitation

I accidentally clicked "decline" on an Outlook invitation and now I can't reverse it -- the event has completely disappeared from my calendar! How can I get back the event invitation and change my "Decline" to "Accept" or "tentative"?
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Breaking the Outlook 2010 e-mail blue quote line for inline responses

UPDATE: I've finally figured out a way to comprehensively fix this problem, though it took a lot of work and the creation of an Outlook 2010 addin! See below for the addin download. As far as I'm aware, though, there is no way to deal with this…
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I declined a single meeting occurrence in Outlook. How do I get it back?

I mistakenly declined a single occurrence of a recurring meeting in Outlook. How do I undo this and get the meeting back? I also had a look at How to get back a declined outlook invitation. But that question does not relate to my problem. As I have…
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How to determine what Outlook rule was applied?

I have a number of rules that filter mail to my deleted items folder. Sometimes it seems a rule applies to a message which I did not intend it to apply to. How can you "debug" which rule applied to a given message?
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Is there a wildcard for setting up an Outlook 2007 rule?

I would like to create a rule that moves anything with the words SUCCESS * BenchmarkResults, where the * indicates a wildcard to a specific folder. We have multiple systems that will be put in place of the *. We have emails that will return WARNING…
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Make deleted Outlook events stay on the calendar

Sometimes I want to decline meeting invitations I receive in Outlook 2007 but keep the meetings on my calendar. That way, I have a reminder of when people who are attending won't be free. However, whenever I click "Decline," the meetings and invites…
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any way to improve Outlook snooze?

I'm locked in to Outlook 2007 at work, and I've had a pet peeve for years now. 15-minute reminders are de rigeur wherever Outlook is used, so let's say I have a 4:00pm meeting. At 3:45, I get a pop-up saying "meeting is starting in 15 minutes". The…
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Bulk Deleting All Messages in a Folder in Microsoft Outlook Web Access

Possible Duplicate: Multiple delete in Microsoft Outlook Web Access How do you delete all messages in a folder in Outlook, preferrably through Web Access? I left my Outlook account unattended for several days (on vacation) and when I got back I…
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How can I find a lost folder in Outlook?

How can I find a folder that was accidentally moved into an unknown folder in Outlook? I can find messages in the folder and looking at their properties gives me the name of the folder but not where it is located. I would like to avoid having to…
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Smileys in Outlook, how to prevent it

When I type the emoticon :) in Outlook 2007, it turns into a smiley face, as in a face inside of a circle...Is there a way for me to prevent Outlook from doing that? I just want a plain old colon and parentheses... Thanks! Other than putting a…
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How to enable Email desktop alerts for inbox folders in outlook 2007?

Possible Duplicate: Outlook does not show desktop notifications on a message recieve Right now desktop alerts only comes if mail comes in inbox only . i need desktop alerts for every folder on incoming mail
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Outlook 2007 / 2010 Calendar: hide meetings in specific category

Question Is there any easy way in Outlook 2007/2010 to show/hide meetings in a specific category? Preferably only for a specific view (the Month view, in this case). Note: I was almost done writing this question, adding just one more "What I've…
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Conversation based grouping in Outlook similar to Gmail?

I'm stuck using my employer's Outlook 2007 system for work email and don't have the option to forward to my Gmail account. The only thing I really miss a lot from Gmail is the threaded conversations which allow me to easily see what I have sent as…
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Why doesn't the vertical scrollbar work in Outlook's message list?

Moving the scrollbar handle in Outlook 2007's message list doesn't scroll the messages until I let go of the handle. Can I change this behavior? It's pretty annoying, and makes the scrollbar kinda useless.
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How can I get Outlook to restore previously-open message windows when restarting?

So Outlook crashed on me yesterday... ...Ok, so that's not terribly interesting. But what happened next was: there was a "Restart" option on the resulting crash dialog. When I clicked it, Outlook re-opened along with all of my previously-open…
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