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Re: Is there a way to always have all file explorer searches always list in detail view?
Reza_Ameri Boe Dillard , Reza_Ameri wrote: This functionality like you explained is not available in the Windows. Of course it is, it's just a shell view. Only there is no button or menu option tot set it. In https://superuser.com/questions/1498668/how-do-you-default-the-windows-10-explorer-view-to-details-when-looking-at-sea someone elaborates on the required registry keys and provides .reg files and Powershell scripts to realize that functionality. NB always make a backup of the registry ('restore point') first. But I did this on several Windows 10 and 11 systems and it works like charm without side effects. No matter how many people enter Feedback Hub requests for this, there will never be a simple menu option for this since it doesn't contribute to getting people to Bing.2.5KViews1like1CommentRendering online .webp images in Outlook 365 for Windows
I just received a HTML newsletter that contained some online webp images. Outlook does not display them. https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/add-webp-images-to-office-creations suggests that Outlook does support webp provided you have the https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PG2DK419DRG installed. I do. When I send a message to my self and insert a .webp image, it does show up. But.... when I Iook at the message source it seems to be converted to .png and there is no way to save it as .webp. Am I doing something wrong or is this a case of "fake it til you make it"?8KViews1like1CommentOulook accused of DOS attack
I'm using Outlook in "cached exchange mode". For some reason, Outlook does not cache the images, only the text part. Even for addresses/domains that are on my safe sender list. As soon as I go offline, all newsletters, e-mail signatures with logo's etc. loose their images. Is there a way to make Outlook cache images? If not: why? It is causing a huge problem for me, see below: I run a WordPress website that is hosted at a typical shared hosting provider. We also send a newsletter, so I am one of the subscribers. Like most HTML newsletters, this contains online images hosted on the website. This means that when I'm working with Outlook and frequently have these newsletters open, Outlook accesses the .jpg files over and over again. Since a few months the hosting provider started blocking my IP regularly for 10 minutes. On some days dozens of times. After some research this appeared to be related to the e-mails with online images. Their anti-DDOS software sees this high-frequency file access as the possible start of a DOS attack and automatically blocks my IP for 10 minutes.1.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: MHT support for Outlook "view it in a web browser"
P_____20Well, something has changed. Since half a year or so it opens in Edge in "Internet Explorer mode" without asking. Other browsers don't support .mht AFAIK. But of course this is a typical Microsoft pins and needles - stopgap solution. The real problem is the bad HTML email rendering in Outlook. A newsletter that looks good in in any email client can become a mess in Outlook.36KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Rendering online .webp images in Outlook 365 for Windows
Just tested Mozilla Thunderbird on the same machine. This displays online .webp images perfectly. More in general HTML newsletters that I receive from various sources look better in Thunderbird. Outlook tends to ignore styling for tables. Fonts are replaced by the default Outlook font, cells get blown up to the original image width etc.7.8KViews0likes0CommentsRe: MHT support for Outlook "view it in a web browser"
Since a recent update, when you click the "view it in a web browser" Outlook is encouraging you to open the .mht in Edge ("New!"). Probably the MS marketing department ordered this 😞 We would not need this "view it in a web browser" if Outlook would render HTML email properly. But it doesn't. In particular (nested) tables, typically used in newsletters are a nightmare. It used to be... well not really good but OK until Office 2007. Since then Outlook doesn't resize images in tables, it doesn't respect font styling in nested tables etc etc. Newsletters that look perfect in any email client can become unreadable in Outlook.49KViews0likes0CommentsHow to import plain, simple, flat CSV data
The old Text/CSV import wizard had not been updated since Office 2002/XP, looked old-fasioned, but it was very good at recognizing columns with dates. You could specify for instance YMD from a drop-down list and it even recognized yyyymmdd. Than suddenly, on a rainy monday morning you arrive in the office, fire up your PC, an Office 365 update comes in and without any advance notice the trustworthy old wizard is gone. Replaced by "Get and Transform Data". Great for enterprises, but a small company just needs that data that we get from the bank as a .CSV. No connections, queries, tables, transforms, styles or whatever. Just the raw data, permanently. We only need to convert that yyyymmdd dates to something Excel understands, like the old wizard did so well. We have no time to do a course or watch video's, we need to get on with our own core business. How can we make it work again?Solved5.5KViews0likes1CommentRe: Emails from no-reply@sharepointonline.com are getting sent to spam by gmail/yahoo
Not only gmail and yahoo, also Office 365 itself: Received-SPF: Fail (protection.outlook.com: domain of sharepointonline.com does not designate 52.232.123.80 as permitted sender) If the creator of this notification service wanted to make the messages look as suspicious as possible: 100% succes! They are about OneDrive, but they come from sharepointonline.com, a domain that has no website SPF failure, no DKIM / DMARC lots of huge tracking-links to domains like "westeuroper-notifyp.svc.ms"106KViews3likes0Commentsgreat product, disastrous name
IMHO Microsoft 365 is a huge step forward in IT Support for small business. But the name MS has chosen for it is a disaster. We consultants will have to waste so much time explaining the difference between Office 365 and Microsoft 365 to decision makers in the SMB sector that hardly know the difference between Windows, Office and Microsoft. Look what happens if you type Microsoft 365 or even "Microsoft 365" in a search engine. Even Bing sends you to the Office 365 login page. Change the product name, while you still can! The current name could kill it. Knowing marketing-people I understand the idea behind the name, well, a bit. But they did not look outside their narrow marketing strategy box. There's people out there in the swamps that have to support your products to make them work, you know. Please, please, choose names for your products that refer to their functionality. You're not selling diapers or soda. Please, please, Microsoft, if you hire new people for your marketing department, send them off for a one year intern on a helpdesk first.1.8KViews4likes4Comments
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