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Fred Howard
Dear Outlook gurus:
I've used Eudora as my email client for 25 years and know it very well. But now I've just changed jobs, and I have to learn Outlook.
I'm picking it up ok, but one thing bothers me: unless I'm missing something, the "Send" button doesn't mean what it says. It appears that when I compose a message and click "Send", Outlook doesn't send it, just moves it to the Outbox.
I then have to do a second step, "Send and Receive" (or a "Send All"), to actually get the message on its way. I keep forgetting to do that.
Is there any way to eliminate this two-step process?
Oh, and another thing: when I open an attachment, is there a way I can tell Outlook at that moment what program to use? For example, if I receive a tab-delimited .txt file, maybe I want to open it with Excel, but I want to continue to open other .txt files with a text editor.
I haven't found anything other than changing the default program for the file type, and I don't want to do that.
Thanks very much in advance for your kind attention.
I've used Eudora as my email client for 25 years and know it very well. But now I've just changed jobs, and I have to learn Outlook.
I'm picking it up ok, but one thing bothers me: unless I'm missing something, the "Send" button doesn't mean what it says. It appears that when I compose a message and click "Send", Outlook doesn't send it, just moves it to the Outbox.
I then have to do a second step, "Send and Receive" (or a "Send All"), to actually get the message on its way. I keep forgetting to do that.
Is there any way to eliminate this two-step process?
Oh, and another thing: when I open an attachment, is there a way I can tell Outlook at that moment what program to use? For example, if I receive a tab-delimited .txt file, maybe I want to open it with Excel, but I want to continue to open other .txt files with a text editor.
I haven't found anything other than changing the default program for the file type, and I don't want to do that.
Thanks very much in advance for your kind attention.