I posted a little while back about the very cool Outlook Connector that lets you access a hotmail account within Outlook All in all i’ve been pretty pleased with it. I read somewhere recently it was no longer a beta so planned to upgrade to the “proper” version A couple of days ago i opened
Category: Office
Outlook 2003, faulting module outllib.dll in Windows XP
I got a call today where one of our clients was unable to open Outlook (2003) She would open it and get the standard “we’re sorry but Outlook needs to close” error. She would restart and unless she went into safe mode it would just keep doing the same thing The event log entry basically said “faulting
Share this:
Access 2003 & blank drop down list after installing SP3
I was at a customers site today when i had an Access database presented to me “Where has all the data gone?!” When attempting to select a value in a drop down (combo) the list appeared empty. If you selected an item the field value was updated correctly. I found this a little wierd and
Share this:
PDF Preview Handler
I got sent an email today with a PDF attached to it. Since i’m using Outlook 2007 i did what i normally do and click on the message to preview it. Then i forget i never got around to installing a PDF preview handler so open it up in Acrobat But today something was different.
Share this:
PST Files Unsupported on LAN
We recently did some data reorganising at one of client sites The idea was to make the folder structure reflect the current organision (some departments had been merged, made redundant,etc), setup new permissions and setup new network drives for easy access One of the users reported that he didn’t want drive X: to disappear as
Share this:
Hotmail in your Outlook
Found this on the Microsoft download site Microsoft Office Outlook Connector If your using Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 then you can connect to your Windows Live Mail (Hotmail) account via Outlook. This was something i used to do years ago with Outlook Express but the functionality was disabled after account misuse. If you had
Share this:
Disable Reading Layout in Word 2003
I know Office 2003 is “sooooo last season” but i get asked about this quite a lot thought i’d stick it on here When you open Word document attached to an e-mail the reading layout is displayed. Some users don’t actually realise the view is supposed to help them read the document on screen. What
Share this:
InfoPath 2003 wont print in landscape
This was a problem i encountered a while back but thought it was just me doing something silly when i was messing around with print views. You set up the form and specify in the page setup you want it landscape but no matter what you do it always ends up in portrait (even in
Share this:
Infopath / SharePoint Tip
I’ve been working on an InfoPath solution for one of our customers. I’ve certainly learnt quite a bit while doing this. Just wanted to post about this excellent tip I needed a list of SharePoint users in a drop-down list box. Your can’t access the user list in the same way you would a standard
Share this:
Got my Vista on
Our action pack arrived last week so i spent yesterday upgrading my PC to Vista and installing Office 2007 The installation went (generally) well. I opted for a clean install so i’m still in the process of tweaking everything to my liking So far i’m pretty impressed. Even though i ran the beta for a