Change quoting level in Outlook 2007

When replying to an HTML email, the original message has a blue bar to the left (which replaces the traditional > symbol). I've seen in previous versions of Outlook that pressing enter on this line takes you to a new line without the blue line ("paragraph unindent") and allows you to write a reply inline. That's fine and what I'd expect.

But currently that doesn't work and I can't easily get rid of the blue line, meaning all my inline replies look like they're part of the original message! Quite odd. Here's how to work around the problem:

• Change the message format from HTML to Rich-text
• Type Ctrl-Q where you want to add a reply
• Type your reply

Voila

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Outlook 2007 autocomplete doesn't work

It really doesn't.

I tried these things:

• Adding the name to my contacts list
• Composing and sending an email to the contact (source)
• Tools | Address Book | Tools | Options | Check names using these address lists | Contacts

Some names are auto-completed, but some aren't.

:-(

Do you know how to make it work? Leave a comment

Outlook 2007: Don't remove line breaks

Microsoft :'-(

Outlook 2007:
Tools | Options | Preferences | E-mail Options
Untick "Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages"

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How to set the follow up flag in Outlook 2007

Sometimes I click on the 'follow up' flag icon for an email in the inbox, and nothing happens. Or there's a message to say the flag was set but it doesn't change colour and doesn't appear in the to do list.

Workaround: Click on the follow up flag for a different email, then clear it, then click back on the first one.

Outlook 2007 reminder windows always on top

Hit Alt-F11, navigate to Project1 | Microsoft Office Outlook Objects | ThisOutlookSession

Simple way 

Private Sub Application_Reminder(ByVal Item As Object)
    If TypeOf Item Is AppointmentItem Then
    MsgBox "Message text", vbSystemModal, "Message title"
    End If
End Sub

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Sophisticated way

Private Declare PtrSafe Function FindWindowA Lib "user32" _
(ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

Private Declare PtrSafe Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, _
ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, _
ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long

Private Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
Private Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Private Const FLAGS As Long = SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
Private Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1

Private Sub Application_Reminder(ByVal Item As Object)
Dim ReminderWindowHWnd As Variant
On Error Resume Next
ReminderWindowHWnd = FindWindowA(vbNullString, "1 Reminder")
SetWindowPos ReminderWindowHWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS

End Sub

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Show/hide invisible/non-printable characters in Outlook (and probably Word)

Control-Shift-8