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Reply to Messages with Meeting Requests

In Reply to a Message with a Meeting Request Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky shows us how we can reply to messages with a meeting request in Outlook versions prior to 2010.

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Don't Reply to BCC emails

In You may have been BCCed warning, Outlook MVP Robert Sparnaaij shows us how we can see a warning when we are BCC'd on an email, so we don't hit Reply To All and embarrass ourselves. However, he didn't mention how we can leverage VBA event handlers as well. So we'll have to do so in this space.

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QuickSteps Week, Part 4

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Welcome to QuickSteps Week! This week we'll be going over a new Outlook 2010 feature called QuickSteps and how we can simulate some of these features in Outlook 2003 using VBA.

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Force Outlook Replies into the format of your choice

In Outlook Tip 434: Change Reply Format, Diane Poremsky writes:

Outlook does not offer a way to always use a specific format for all replies, be it RTF or HTML. You need to either change it on each message or write VBA macro to change the format.

That's what we're here for! OutlookCode has VBA to always reply in HTML format, but sometimes I like to roll my own. In this case, I wrote four different procedures that each do something slightly different.

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On Being a Responsible Outlook user

Reply To All

The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog has a two part series on how to disable the Reply To All functionality using MS Exchange. Yikes.

To me, it seems like an organizational disease or culture problem when you have to resort to blocking the feature at the Exchange level.

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