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People with different levels of performance or visual impairments often have difficulty reading and accessing e-mails. Microsoft believes that this problem can be overcome. People with visual impairments can understand your emails more easily if you create them barrier-free. Microsoft Outlook includes accessibility features that make email messages easily accessible to people with visual impairments and people with different talents.

Accessibility in Microsoft Outlook

Making Microsoft Outlook emails accessible to different people

Insert alternative text with all images and tables

Alt text is a huge help for screen readers or browsers that have images disabled. By adding alternative text to an image, you can give meaning to someone who does not see it for some reason. With Microsoft Outlook, you can create alternative text (alt text or alt text) for shapes, images, graphics, tables or other objects in your Office document. read more

If you try to connect to multiple accounts on a particular site with two different identities, you may not succeed. Indeed, by default, Internet Explorer uses the same session cookies for all its tabs and windows. You can connect to multiple accounts on a specific website such as Facebook, Outlook.com, Gmail, Skype, etc. with two different accounts using Internet Explorer in Windows by following this tutorial.

Connect or connect to multiple accounts

There is this IE option button to connect to multiple accounts on a particular website with two different identities, using Internet Explorer in Windows. read more

We all use an email signature in our emails to facilitate contact with the recipient. Email signatures can be seen as a word extension for you and help people get to know you. In Outlook 2016/2013/2010, you can configure custom signatures for email accounts POP, IMAP, MAPI or ExchangeExchange. If you are a beginner with Outlook, here is a quick review of how to create custom signatures:

Sign emails in Outlook

We have already seen how to create and add an email signature in Outlook. Let us briefly discuss this procedure. read more

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010 and is now available for download for 32-bit and 64-bit installations.

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 includes new features. There are things you couldn’t do before, or things that are simply better than they were with the original version.

It contains the latest updates for Office 2010 and includes two main categories of corrections:

• Unpublished fixes created specifically for this Service Pack. In addition to general product patches, these patches include stability, performance and security improvements.
• All public updates published by June 2011 and all cumulative updates published by April 2011.

Currently, Service Pack 1 is available for manual download from the download center and Microsoft Update and will only be available as an automatic update at least 90 days after its release. read more

Microsoft has published a document describing and illustrating client deployment methods for Microsoft Office 2010. Deployment options include network sharing, group policy startup scripts, managed deployment, and virtualization.

The deployment architecture for Microsoft Office 2010 is mainly the same as for Microsoft Office 2007 system, except that Office 2010 now requires Office volume activation technologies such as Key Management Service (KMS), Multiple Activation Key (MAK), MAK Proxy or a combination of these technologies to participate in all volume licensing programs. read more

The Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), released in March 2013, has been updated to v1.1 and contains many new features. For those who don’t know, the Office Configuration Analyzer Tool or OffCAT provides a quick way to scan multiple Microsoft Office programs for common configurations that can cause problems.

Office Configuration Analyzer Tool – OffCAT

Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool provides a detailed report of your installed Office programs and identifies known problems. For all issues listed in the report, you will receive a link to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article that can help you solve the problem. read more

Suppose you receive an email with one Word file attached. If you now try to preview this file.doc or .docx, the file will be processed by the Word component (16) on your system. In some scenarios Outlook may cause the following error when scanning this file if it is unable to preview this Word attachment:

This file cannot be displayed due to an error with the following preview image: Microsoft Word Preview. To open this file in your own program, double-click it.

This is a known problem and we have found that incorrect or invalid registry keys are the cause of this problem. When we analyze this symptom with Process Monitor, we observe that some registry keys returned with denied access generate the above error message. Now let’s see what these registry keys are and how to fix this problem by manipulation: read more

Display all current and previous versions of Internet Explorer from version 4 as well as the version of the operating system or products with which each was associated, for academic purposes only!

Published versions of Internet Explorer for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 use the following format :

major version.major version.minor version.build number.build.subbuild number read more

Ribbon Hero for Microsoft Office

Ribbon Hero is a game for Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2007 and 2010 to help you improve your office automation skills. Play games (also known as challenges), earn points and challenge your friends while improving your productivity with Office.

As a concept test, this add-in is not supported, but this is your chance to try an idea Microsoft is working on it and let them know what you think.

For additional challenges and the opportunity to earn more points, download Office 2010.

Download Ribbon Hero, try it and let us know how you like it. read more

InPrivate Filtering prevents Web site content providers from collecting information about visited Web sites. InPrivate filtering works by analyzing web content such as ads, maps or web analytics tools on websites you visit, and when the same content is used on a number of websites, it gives you the ability to allow or block that content. You can also set InPrivate Filtering to automatically block any recognized content provider or third-party website, or you can disable InPrivate Filtering. InPrivate Filtering (press Ctrl+Shift+F to enable it) scans the websites you visit and the content providers they use, but does not automatically block them. You can allow or block any content provider identified by InPrivate Filtering as the recipient of your browser information. You can also ask InPrivate Filtering to automatically block each content provider or disable InPrivate Filtering. read more