I received a message which had a small flag and a person icon in the flag column already.

What does this icon mean?

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I often want to forward an email to another recipient, having made some minor changes, but without it being obvious that the email has been originally sent to someone else.

Every time I do this, I have to delete the "Fw:" added to the subject and the previous header from the message body.

Can I stop Outlook from doing this?
Can I also set the inserted text color to match my original text?

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Suddenly I experience a long delay between pressing a key and the display on screen. This only occurs in Outlook 2003. All other Office programs and Internet forms work fine. I changed from HTML to Rich Text and it still slows down. Then it works perfect for a while then starts slowing down again. The only way I can use it consistently is to make Word my text editor, which I do not want.

I have defragged, cleaned my hard drive, cleared history and cache, and rebooted several times, but the problem persists. Any ideas? I have used this since the release of Office 2003 with no problem.

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I was just sent an invite to a recurring meeting. I want to propose a new time, but only Accept, Tentative, Decline and another button shows to respond.

I then added the Propose New Time icon to the Quick Access Toolbar, but it is greyed out.

Why can't I propose a new time?

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In Gmail, there is an option to undo the sending of an email but that only works via webmail.

Can I somehow also bring this Undo Send option to Outlook?

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I prefer to read emails by opening them in their own window rather than using the Reading Pane.

Whenever I press Reply, Outlook opens a new message window but the original message is still left open as well and needs to be closed manually after I sent my reply.

As I often switch between applications while writing a message, this opened message gets “hidden” behind other windows and I end up with many opened message windows by the end of the day.

Is there a way to automatically close these windows when I reply?

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We save messages as oft-files so all the people in our team can use them as templates for sending out standardized emails.

However, when opening or saving messages as oft-files, Outlook defaults to the Templates folder within the user’s profiles.

Is there any way to change this default location to for instance a network share?

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While message rules can help to automatically file the bulk of your messages directly into the correct folder, processing your mail is of course more than just moving it.

Instead of using your mouse, you can move, flag, categorize, etc your mail via a keyboard shortcut which is often quicker (and more accurate when for instance in a train).

Which ones are you using?

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My scanner comes with an application that can directly scan to email. However, when I do that, my signature does not show up in the newly created message.

If I scan it to disk first and then use the right click option "Send to-> Mail Recipient" then the same thing happens.

How can I scan to email without losing my signature?

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I'm using Outlook 2003 on Windows 7 and when inserting a picture or file from or when saving a message to a Library, the Library shows up empty.

Is there a fix for this?

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