When I am replying to a message, and trying to edit text that's part of the original message, Outlook gives me extra spaces around the letters.

Is there any way to prevent this?

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In a previous tip you explained how to prevent email address in Excel turning into clickable mailto hyperlinks which is close to an issue I’m currently facing.

In my current case, I’ve received an Excel sheet full of email addresses that are clickable mailto links which is highly annoying as sooner or later I’ll accidentally click on one.

Is there any way to bulk remove or disable these clickable email addresses and turn them into regular text instead?

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I’ve got an appointment/meeting for which I need to complete some tasks before the actual event is taking place. It is important that I’ll be able to receive notifications whenever a Task is due as well as the final appointment.

Is there an easy way to somehow link this appointment and all its tasks together so I can see which tasks need to be completed before that appointment but also to see which appointment belongs to a specific task?

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When I start Outlook, I get an "Internet Security Warning" dialog box with the message;

The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified.
The target principal name is incorrect.

I clicked on "View Certificate" and installed the certificate, but I still get this dialog each time I start Outlook.

Clicking "Yes" each time allows me to use Outlook as normal but how can get rid of this dialog?

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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 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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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 have quite a list of RSS feeds configured in Outlook and while that works great, I do find myself getting distracted quite quickly because of it.

Also, it seems that Outlook’s send/receive process is getting slower because of the amount of RSS feeds that I have.

As my mail is my main priority, is there a way to configure Outlook in such a way that it will only download RSS feeds when I want to?

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When trying to launch the Office Assistant via the Help menu, I get the following error;

"The Office Assistant requires Microsoft Agent 2.0 or later. This product is available on the Office System Pack."

I've done a full install of Office 2003 and looked on the CD but I cannot find anything there.

How can I enable the Office Assistant again?

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I see an “External” tag in front of the From field for pretty much all of my messages in the Message List.

How can I remove it?

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