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I checked that to be sure and the setting is to never disable. Seems strange – something is at work here slowing the initial handshake.

Bill

I checked that to be sure and the setting is to never disable. Seems strange – something is at work here slowing the initial handshake.

Bill

Thanks. Yes – checked both. Control panel power options is set to never power down when plugged in (thats when I observe the problem). The machine bios does not have a power save functions.

Bill

Thanks. Yes – checked both. Control panel power options is set to never power down when plugged in (thats when I observe the problem). The machine bios does not have a power save functions.

Bill

Unfortunately there is no way to do this short of buying the industrial strength MS Exchange and setting up an exchange server. You can copy the PST file from your desktop to the laptop when you need to go out with the laptop and an uptodate copy of your Outlook file. But be sure to copy it back to the desktop after you come back to your office otherwise you will quickly get out of sync.

Depending on the speed of your network, you might try sharing the file. I keep the PST file on my laptop which always remains on and is linked to my desktop via a 802.11G network. So when I am working at my desktop, Outlook ‘points’ to a shared file on my laptop where the Outlook PST resides. Sometimes the speed of the network gets in the way and outlooks appears a little slower with some of its housekeeping, but overall, it workds fine.

Unfortunately there is no way to do this short of buying the industrial strength MS Exchange and setting up an exchange server. You can copy the PST file from your desktop to the laptop when you need to go out with the laptop and an uptodate copy of your Outlook file. But be sure to copy it back to the desktop after you come back to your office otherwise you will quickly get out of sync.

Depending on the speed of your network, you might try sharing the file. I keep the PST file on my laptop which always remains on and is linked to my desktop via a 802.11G network. So when I am working at my desktop, Outlook ‘points’ to a shared file on my laptop where the Outlook PST resides. Sometimes the speed of the network gets in the way and outlooks appears a little slower with some of its housekeeping, but overall, it workds fine.

BTW — if you select RTF or Plain text, email.htm has no function.

BTW — if you select RTF or Plain text, email.htm has no function.

This thing is still confusing me a little, as now my graphics don’t work as I thought they did.

But as to your issue, I do not believe Normal.dot has any functionality with email messages. Search your hard drive for email.htm and open that – then edit it using word. Put in your style requirements and then save the file back to its original location.

Now when you restart Outlook you should see your styles – even if you don’t use Word. It works for me.

This thing is still confusing me a little, as now my graphics don’t work as I thought they did.

But as to your issue, I do not believe Normal.dot has any functionality with email messages. Search your hard drive for email.htm and open that – then edit it using word. Put in your style requirements and then save the file back to its original location.

Now when you restart Outlook you should see your styles – even if you don’t use Word. It works for me.

Now I am confused.

Mary is right that email.dot is not used, but if you select HTML format, Word uses a file called email.htm. I found this file while I was looking for email.dot. I can edit it and insert paragraph spacing etc. It also allows the insertion of picture files (a scanned in signature and logo, for example, and these will be displayed properly in a new message. If you de-select Word as the email editor, the pictures then do not display – there is a boundary box with a little red ‘x’ in the upper left-hand corner similar to the boundary box you get on a webpage when you have show pictures turned off.

Now I am confused.

Mary is right that email.dot is not used, but if you select HTML format, Word uses a file called email.htm. I found this file while I was looking for email.dot. I can edit it and insert paragraph spacing etc. It also allows the insertion of picture files (a scanned in signature and logo, for example, and these will be displayed properly in a new message. If you de-select Word as the email editor, the pictures then do not display – there is a boundary box with a little red ‘x’ in the upper left-hand corner similar to the boundary box you get on a webpage when you have show pictures turned off.

Where can I access the template that word uses for email? I did not think that it could be changed.

Where can I access the template that word uses for email? I did not think that it could be changed.

Yes – shift-enter will work since it is only a line feed character, but then all of the formatting from the previous paragraph will flow to the next paragraph. Not a good solution.

The better solution would be to allow one to build a template for email messages (using word) where you could then use paragraph spacing. Then, only one paragraph mark would be needed.