Devang Gandhi

The auto correct feature of Outlook is pretty handy. It will capitalize the first letter of the first word of every sentence.

To  enable autocorrect in Outlook 2003

1. Go to Tools -> Options.
2. Then go over to the Mail Format tab.
3. Check the box that says Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages

That’s it! The autocorrect feature should now be activated.

To turn on inline comments in Outlook follow these steps:

1. Go to the Tools menu, click Options.
2. On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options.
3. Select the Mark my comments with check box, and then type the text that you want to use with your comments (e.g. Gandhi, Devang). This text appears in brackets when you add inline comments to a message reply.

Once these settings are done, go to the message and click Reply. Click in the body of the original message and start typing. The comment text that you created above appears as a prefix e.g. [Gandhi, Devang] to your comment.

I was unable to open email messages that were sent to me as an attachment in another email in Outlook 2003. After some googling, I realized that google desktop 5.5 was creating this problem.

The solution:

In Outlook navigate to Tools -> Options -> Other -> Advanced Options. Remove the tick mark (deselect) for Google Desktop in both the Ad-In Manager and the Com Ad-Ins. This should fix it.

Ever tried to create a directory in windows that starts with a dot (period). The windows explorer wouldn’t let you do that. To do this you need to use DOS.

For example, consider that you need to create a directory called “.work” in the folder “C:\user”

1. Start> Run> (then type “cmd” and press ok)
2. Go to the “C:\user” directory cd C:\user
3. then type md .themes

This finally creates a folder that has a name starting with a dot.

I stumbled upon a great webpage that provides comparison of xml editors. It is a very comprehensive comparison

I just got a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p laptop from work, amazing config- 4 GB RAM, 2 GHz duo core processor. However I had many issues- internet connectivity, audio etc. I just followed the instructions here and everything works fine now. Weird!