Outlook 2010 starts up in offline mode [Solved]

I spent hours looking for a setting in MS Outlook 2010 to make it start up in online mode ie: not connected to the MS Exchange Server… I (sort of) remember wanting it to startup in offline mode so that it wouldn’t download all the emails on startup, but now I wanted to turn that off.  But, I couldn’t find the setting – I even looked in the Windows Registry using regedit but decided to stop and look again in the options screens – I eventually found it.
 
Here’s the settings – in case I ever forget:
File->Info->Account Settings->Account Settings->Change->More Settings->General->Manually control connection state->Connect with network

Two simple tips to prevent those emails that are sent too early

How often have you pressed the ‘Send’ button by mistake and have to scramble to unplug your Internet connection to prevent that email from being sent?  Well, here are two ways that I use to prevent those mistakes. The most common mistakes that I make when sending an email are to forget to add the attachment, and to add/remove addresses to/from the address fields.

Here are the 2 tips:
1) When replying to an important email I always put an invalid email address (e.g. ‘xxxx’) in the ‘cc’ field.  So, if I do happen to press the ‘Send’ button by mistake, then my email client will complain that it doesn’t know who ‘xxxx’ is.  So, once I’ve checked the email content and its attachments, I can then remove the ‘xxxx’ “address”.
2) As another failsafe (yeah, call me paranoid) method of ensuring that the email gets sent to the correct parties, is to turn off Microsoft Outlook’s ‘Send immediately when connected’ setting: UNtick: “Tools->Options->Mail setup->Send immediately when connected”

BTW: did you know that Google Mail’s (labs) feature “Settings->Labs-> Forgotten Attachment Detector” that will warn you if you refer to an attachment in the email but there isn’t an attached file? Note: obviously you need to be using an Internet browser for sending the email.

Printing only some pages from Microsoft Outlook is not possible... until now

I have often wanted to print only the first page of an email, but the MS Outlook program only allows you to print odd or even pages (whatever for, I ask!), and multiple copies.
Even Outlook 2007 has this problem....

A workaround that I use is: first print the (full) email to a pdf file (using the free PDFcreator [17MB] then use Adobe Reader [41MB] to print the pages that I need.

Hope this helps in saving that precious paper!