Christos Polydorou

I saw a very strange (to me aleast) problem today. A user could not select text by dragging the cursor on Microsoft Outlook. It turns out that some updates for the Office platform may cause that behaviour and all you have to do is delete the  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data key. The problem appeared in Outlook because it was set as the default message editor. You can find the relevent article on  Microsoft KB .

When using Microsoft Outlook with an IMAP account, because the account does not support contacts, tasks and notes those items are not stored in the PST file that belongs to the account but in an other PST file. So if you want to recover those items, after a system failure for example, you have to search your profile for any PST file and then open the right file, the one that contains your contacts and notes. Notice that you may have to select the folders view in order to see the contacts and notes folder.