I've tried a couple of times to create envelopes in Word for Outlook contacts (for which I've entered addresses) but every time I try, I end up clicking around a lot without any satisfactory result.

This seems like a core functionality of Outlook though, which shouldn’t be too hard and quickly to repeat so I must be doing something wrong here.

Could you walk me through the process of creating envelopes?

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I’m working with Excel sheets that contain a lot of email addresses as well.

When updating a field, it turns the email address in a clickable “mailto” link and when I’m not careful when clicking, it opens up a new email in Outlook.

As I have no intention to email anyone directly from these lists, but do work a lot with these sheets, this is getting annoying quite fast.

Is there any way to disable this behavior in Excel?

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I found how I can save a single contact as a vCard, but is it also possible to export my entire Contacts folder in the vCard format rather than msg-files, txt-files or csv-files?

Can I also save them all within a single multi-contact vCard file which I can for instance import on my iPad?

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I want to prevent unauthorized access to my emails.

Is there any way I can password protect the entire Outlook Mail Profile so people will be prompted for a password when opening Outlook?

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I often need to reply to messages with boilerplate text. Right now, I copy them from other messages, Word documents and for some I have set up some special signatures which include the message text as well.

Can I assume that Outlook has a better solution for this? If so, where?

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Since I'm using Outlook 2010, I see a lot of GUID references in my Internet Explorer History which makes it hard to use.

For instance;
{6BE240C7-DFC2-4366-8871-08A412F896EB}

When I click on it, I get one of the following;

• a warning which reads;
  "Running a system command on this item might be unsafe"
• a file not found error
• a web page with the text;
  "There are no items to show in this view."

Where exactly is this coming from and how can I make it stop poluting my IE History?

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When setting up a meeting, can I add people to a Cc or Bcc field who will receive the meeting details for informational purposes?

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We use custom voting options internally quite a bit (at least once a day to decide where to have lunch and/or dinner).

This works great aside from the fact that we need to key in all the answers each time. They usually are more or less the same each time though.

Is there a way to save these custom answers in a way that we can reuse them?

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I've stored my contacts as First Last but when I address an email by pressing on the "To:" button, it still shows them Last, First.

How can I show them all as First Last like they have saved them in the Contacts folder?

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I got the advise to disable the virus scanner integration with Outlook.
Isn't that a bad thing to do?

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