In our organization we often send text based hyperlinks to folders and files we work on. Most of the time I just copy the path out of Explorer and insert it into the message body and put file:// if front of it so that Outlook will automatically create a link out of it.

This works great except if the file or foldername contains spaces. Then it breaks the hyperlink at the first space.

How can I make Outlook to create a link including spaces? Renaming the files and folders is not an option to us.

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I have quite a few rules configured which I'd hate to lose.

Can I make a backup of just my rules just in case something happens to them or when moving to another computer?

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Web addresses in the messages I get in Plain Text format do no longer display as clickable hyperlinks.

How can I re-enable them?

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Whenever I create a new message, the associated window is really small and in an inconvenient location (half off of my Desktop).

How do I change the default size and position of the new message window such that all of it is visible on my desktop?

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When trying to save a message as an oft-file (when creating a reply template for a message rule), I don't get the option to save it as an Outlook Template.

How can I enable this?

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Yesterday you blogged about the "Organize and Delete..." feature of Quick Parts. I cannot seem to find that option.

Can you tell in short how Quick Parts work?

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I am trying to create an email that has a picture set in the background like a watermark or a digital greeting card. I cannot find an option to do that.

Where is it, is it gone?

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I used to have Word set as my email editor for amongst others to easily set tabs. Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 apparently only use Word as the email editor but I don't see the ruler to set the tabs.

Has this feature been dropped?

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I wanted to start over so I reinstalled Outlook but everything is still configured.

How can I reset my Outlook settings?

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In previous versions of Outlook, if I wanted to embed a link <a href=...>) to a picture instead of embedding the actual picture in emails, I would go to Tools-> Options-> Mail Format tab-> Internet Format button and in the dialog under the heading "HTML options" I would uncheck: "When an HTML message contains pictures located on the Internet, send a copy of the pictures instead of the reference to their location."

But this heading and checkbox don't exist in this location on Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010.
Has it moved to a new location?

It appears the option or feature still exists, as another user with Outlook 2007 that upgraded from Outlook 2003 who had that option unchecked prior to the upgrade sends mail with links instead of pictures just fine.

I'm guessing it was stored in the registry somewhere and was picked up after the upgrade, but how can I with a clean install have the same setting?

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