Large email sizes in Outlook 2010 BETA

In Outlook 2010 BETA, an email in the default HTML format might take much more space than the other formats. Sometimes, a simple msg takes upward .5 MB to 1 MB or even bigger after a few replies.

Microsoft has released a fix for this, which is available at microsoft download center:

Alternatively, you can wait for Office 2010 RC and upgrade when it’s available.

Outlook Mailbox Cleanup

Here are a few tips to clean up mailbox in Outlook.

  • Find email larges than 1MB and clean up
  • Use AutoArchive to archive old emails from default mail folders to pst files.
  • Use Clean Up Conversation if you are using outlook 2010
  • Use Shift + delete to delete emails without moving them to deleted items folder.

Clean up conversation feature is a new feature in Outlook 2010. It can be found from Home tab in the Ribbon, select ‘Clean Up Folder’ or ‘Clean Up Folder and Subfolders’.

outlook clean up conversion

How to delete a notebook in Office OneNote

Q: How to delete a notebook in Office OneNote? Doesn’t seem to be a way to delete a whole notebook

A: Since it’s just a folder, you must do this from the windows file system.  Go to “My Documents -> OneNote Notebooks”, find the file folder (notebook), right click and choose Delete

OneNote Online Videos and How-To articles

Video Demos

What is OneNote?
Get an up-close look at the benefits of using OneNote and see why electronic notes are better than paper.

Set up a OneNote notebook
See how easy it is to get started with OneNote and why you won’t want to go back to paper notes.

Keep it together with OneNote
Learn why OneNote is perfect for research projects and other types of information gathering.

Organize, search, and find information in OneNote
If it’s in your notebook, OneNote can find it – even if you haven’t spent any time organizing your notes.

See how Jeff Raikes uses OneNote 2007
A video of Microsoft Business Division President using OneNote 2007

Click here to view other OneNote video demos.

Help & How-To Articles

Find your way around OneNote 2007
Take a quick visual tour of the OneNote interface and read tips on maximizing your workspace.

Get started with OneNote 2007
Make the most out of OneNote right from the start with this useful roadmap to online resources.

See how Jeff Raikes uses OneNote 2007
A great article describing how Jeff Raikes uses OneNote 2007.

Top tips for OneNote 2007
Browse a collection of the most popular OneNote 2007 time savers and shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcuts for OneNote 2007
Look up shortcuts and accelerators for common OneNote tasks in this categorized reference.

Click here to view the OneNote Help home page.

Recover deleted mail in outlook

Have you ever deleted an email, emptied your deleted items folder and then realized one day or two later that you need them? Well you can recover them in outlook using the following easy steps:

Select the ‘Delete Items’ folder
Go to Tools->Recover Deleted Items…

You will see a nice list of all the email that you have deleted. However, you’ll need to know either the sender or the subject since you can’t search or open the items but you could always recover everything and then re-empty the Deleted Items Folder.

Update: In Outlook 2010, its Folder –> Recover Deleted Items