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by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood,
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    Technical Notes on Outlook Express?


    • Outlook Express does not have any way to assign a message to a category or make a group that views by category. A kludgy way to fake it out is to use a rule to add a prefix to the Subject, then sort your inbox by Subject. However, Outlook Express can only sort by one column, so if you sort by Subject, your dates will get out of order.
    • Outlook Express does not have a Rules Wizard. Instead, select Tools->Rules (I think).
        Outlook Express does not tie tightly into Exchange, and in fact is rarely used with Exchange. This means that Outlook Express does not have
        • voting buttons.
        • Out of Office assistant
        • Exchange rules
      • Outlook Exchange does have a very nice mailing list manager.
      • To edit the toolbar, right-click (Windows) on a blank part of the toolbar and select Customize. Useful buttons to add include
        • Mark Read
        • Mark Unread
        • Next Unread
        • Preview (useful for looking at spam subject headers safely)


    Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
    Updated 23 June 2001.