MicrosoftOutlookTips

Deliver Outlook email to a local file

To change from delivery of Outlook email to your Exchange mailbox to delivery of email to your local PC:

1. Start Outlook 2003
2. Select Tools/Email Accounts
3. You want to "View or change existing e-mail accounts" and click Next
4. At the bottom of the window, find "Deliver new e-mail to the following location:" It will probably show "Mailbox - Lastname, Firstname"
5. Change this pick-list to "Personal Folders." If you don't have "Personal Folders" it means your PC doesn't have a ".PST" file. You can create one by clicking on the "New Outlook Data File" button.

Once you do this:

1. You can access your received email regardless of whether the Exchange server is functioning.
2. You almost never run out of space in your Exchange mailbox (unless you go on vacation).
3. You become responsible for back up of your own email. Corporate IT will (probably) back up your Exchange mailbox, but they (probably) won't back up your PC's disk drive. If you deliver your email to your disk drive, and your disk drive fails, you lose your email unless you can restore it from YOUR back-up.

Use an URL to Open a Contact

To open a contact for Kevin Kleinfelter from the Internet Explorer address bar, use the outlook protocol:

outlook:Contacts/~Kevin%20Kleinfelter

Dunno if this works for hyperlinks on web pages.

"C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select "outlook:Calendar"