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are you using an Exchange server with your Outlook??

an oversight, perhaps, but then Microsoft are catering for the masses with corporate email requirements, and they all have Exchange Server running, and Outlook is their client. Its only an issue for those of us using Outlook as a personal mail client, that the inconvenience of not having an Exchange server at home becomes apparent. Wait till you add a Blackberry to the mix, it gets even funnier.

If you have a personal email system, you will find your settings and PST files in this location (by default), if you have XP and have hidden folders shown. Username is your login name on the system.

C:Documents and SettingsLocal SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook, other files you want to backup are your folder, nav and cached addresses, which are in CDocuments and SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook, you need the NK2 file at least (cached email address file).

as far as I am aware, the Send To menu option will only render the message in Plain text by design. as a company we have Outlook set to RTF or HTML for our automatic email signatures, but any Send To email is always in Plain text, but you can change this by going to the Options menu when in the message, and choose a different option from the drop down menu in Outlook 2003.

In Outlook 2007, it under the Options tab of the new message, but Word as your editor choice is no longer available and everyone uses the standard editor supplied with Outlook (as Office 2007 uses Word as the default HTML editor now instead of IE).

you should be able to save your changes to your normal work area, Outlook opens temp copy in the Temp Internet Files area of your profile, with a random name such as OLKxxxxx (xxxx=numbers), best to open the attachment, press F12 to Save As, drop it into your My Docs folder make your changes, and then from the Excel File menu you can choose to attach to email and send back without having to leave the app. However, if you wish to use the same email chain that it arrived on, you will have to save the file and then reply to the email and substitute the new file that you edited, from its My Docs location.

if you don’t save the changes to a proper location, when you close the app, Outlook is supposed to delete/remove the temp file created when you opened the attachment from the message.

Yes you need to update your desktop or software firewall to allow POP3 traffic which is on default port 110 and SMTP port 25 for sending email back out again. you may find it easier with a router in place to share an internet connection, but i am not sure where you are or whether you have actual dial-up or broadband.

Microsoft do recommend that you use Office 2007 with Windows 7, and if you are using 64bit, there are some elements of 2007 that have 64bit capability. Office 2003 went end of life for mainstream use in April 2009, and apart from the odd security patch and Outlook Junk Email update, no further support is offered other than paid for support (Extended). The official line from MS is the Extended Support will last till Jan 2014, but given Office 2010 is out in June, by 2014, there will likely be another Office package (2013?)

not a big fan of upgrading if I don’t have to, but I find Office 2007 and Windows 7 64bit work very well in our LAN for now. even my 4.5 year old T43 ThinkPad has a new lease of life by removing XP and loading Win 7 32bit, Lenovo have kindly release an updated System Update package to allow downloading off Win7 add-ins.

might also be handy to install Firefox 3.6 and then re-run the Shockwave Installer to make sure the plug-in is added to all browsers. There is a non-IE Flash installer for FF which will have to be added when FF is closed.

All the add-ons can be found here: http://www.filehippo.com/software/internet/ (always remember to enable the NO BETA filter when on this site)