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Oops, I did it again… Outlook 2010 attachment and account check

We’ve all done it – please see attached…. DOH!

And with multiple email accounts, and forwarding to your main address, it’s easy to send from your default account when you meant to use another…

But there are solutions to hand!

FAD (Forgotten Attachment Detection) from MS Office Labs solves problem 1:

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/forgottenattachmentdetector/Pages/default….

It requires Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office V3 which is only 2mb:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23656

I believe .NET is required too.

 

For account selection, a small registry modification will prompt you to choose the account each time – essentially removing the ‘default account’ functionality.

http://www.msoutlook.info/question/477