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Require Subject for Outlook eMails

Faille — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:30:31 +0000

This function will prompt for confirmation if you try to send an email with no Subject.

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean) Dim strSubject As String strSubject = Item.Subject If Len(strSubject) = 0 Then Prompt$ = “Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?” If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Check for Subject”) = vbNo Then Cancel = True End If End If End Sub

Add it to the “ThisOutlookSession” part of the VB Code. See the source below for full details

Source: http://sarathc.wordpress.com/2006/06/29/forgot-to-mention-subject-in-outlook/

Word Doc “is reserved by”

Faille — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:59:37 +0000

The project that I am working on right now is using Microsoft SharePoint. It has some convenient features, but I absolutely hate how it does change control for documents. Maybe I just don’t know how to use it. Anyway, a common problem we are having is documents are staying “Reserved By” people who have left the project, and our only option is to open them as Read Only. If those documents are then saved using SAVE AS… so we can create a new version, the save as is password protected too. Highly annoying.

Here is the solution (I apologize for losing the source of this tip – I will add it and pictures when I can)

Go to File > Save As…
On the top right of the window, there will be a Tools option. Click this, and choose Security Options…
Delete the password and uncheck the Read-only recommended checkbox
Save the document

You do still have to Save As… the document, but you can always rename the document once the password is removed

Change the words at top of Internet Explorer browser window

Faille — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:33:51 +0000

When I was working in Hawaii, I had a lapse in judgment and installed the internet company’s CD when I was setting up my internet. This resulted in me having “by Hawaiian Telcom” at the top of every browser window.

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Uninstalling the software didn’t remove it, so I decided to look for a better answer.

I did a google search for “how do i remove “by Hawaiian telcom” from my browser”, and found this site: http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackthis-logs/581290-solved-trojanspm-lx.html

It was actually referring to how to remove a trojan, but the user was a Hawaiian Telcom customer, and the log they posted had the dreaded “By Hawaiian Telcom” in their registry entries.

“R1 – HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = By Hawaiian Telcom”

A quick trip to regedit, and I have now eliminated this phrase from my machine! I actually went down HKLM, as well as HKCU. For more details on how to do this change, click after the jump!

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Yay for Google!

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Change Default Font on Outlook Notes

Faille — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:35:24 +0000

This tip will allow you to change the default font for notes you create in Outlook from Comic Sans (a sin) to something more palatable (generic Arial or ?).

Tools > Options > Preferences Tab > Note Options… Button > Font… Button

source: http://malektips.com/outlook_2003_notes_0002.html