Often times, I receive invitations for recurring meetings that have no end date set so they will go on forever in my Calendar. It’s actually not that surprising considering that “No end date” is the default selection.

I really would like the organizer to put more thought into this. Sometimes the original organizer has even left the company and we still have these recurring meetings left in our Calendars.

As this is such a problem for us, I actually have multiple related questions about this;

• Can I change the default recurrence pattern for meetings and appointments that I create in Outlook? Currently it is always set to “No end date” and sometimes even forget to change it myself.
• Is there anything I can do against this as a recipient of these invitations?
• Is there anything our administrator can do to prevent these meetings from being send out?

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When I wanted to edit my Signature, I noticed that the Signatures button isn’t working at all when I click on it. The same is true for the Stationery and Fonts… button.

I tried repairing my installation of Office but that didn’t work.

How can I get my Signature Editor to work again?

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I have a few personal folders/data files, and 1 of it is password-protected.

Back in Outlook 2003, I'm only prompted for the password if I actually accessed the folder. Now in 2007/2010, the pop-up comes up as soon as I start up Outlook.

How do I stop this from happening?

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When clicking on a hyperlink within an email I get the following error;
"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."

I am the administrator of this computer. How can I use these deactivated links again as currently links do not open at all?

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Several messages in my IMAP account in Outlook have message headers (such as subject and From address) which do not apply to the message body.

The message body appears to be from previous emails, show garbled or can't be downloaded at all. Attachments seem to be affected as well.

Why is this happening and how can I fix these messages?

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Is there a way to create a rule that looks for certain words in the message body and only if it finds all these words in the message it will apply a certain action?

Right now, when using the "with specific words" condition it behaves like an OR operatator.

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For all my contacts (“clients” actually in my case), I’ve filled out the Company field on the Contact form. I’ve also made sure that the Company name is included in the contact’s Display Name.

My aim for this was that I could reveal the Company name directly in my message list so I could directly recognize which company the sender is from.

However, although I can add the Company field to my message list, the field remains blank. Also, my chosen display name for the contact seems to be ignored.

Why is this being ignored and more importantly; How can I achieve what I want?

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Whenever I send an attachment through Outlook, the recipient receives the email without the attachment although they sometimes say that it got renamed to winmail.dat.

It happens to all attachments regardless of who I send it to and the format of the file (e.g. PDF, Word, jpg, etc). If I send the same attachment through web mail or from another computer, the attachment remains intact and is received in the email.

I've tried turning off my anti-virus program but that's not made any difference, so I'm assuming the issue must be within Outlook itself.

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I've configured my account in Outlook, and now all my emails have been removed from my web mailbox which prevents me from downloading them on my phone and tablet as well or check my emails via a browser.

How do I restore them back onto the server?

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When I use the Send To-> Mail Recipient feature in Explorer to send a file as an attachment, the email is in Plain Text and contains a warning text instead of my signature.

Is there any way to make it use the HTML format and include my signature by default?

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