Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Turn on / Off Photos in Outlook 2007/2010

TurnOffPhotograph Registry Value

To edit the registry, go to Start menu, Run (keyboard shortcut: Windows key + R) and type regedit in the Run field then press Enter.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common
DWORD: TurnOffPhotograph
Value: 1 or 0

Value of 1 = Contact photos are not displayed in the People Pane. If you are using Outlook 2010, they are also not displayed in the header of email messages and the Outlook contact cardValue of 0 = The Outlook Social Connector displays contact photos in the People Pane.
This key also work in Outlook 2007. There you'll use
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common
  
Contact picture displayed in e-mail header
All e-mail messages received from a contact for which you have a picture will display the contact’s picture to the right of the message header. To disable this feature, deploy the following registry data:
Key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Mail
DWORD: ShowContactPicture
Values:1 (or missing DWORD) = show contact picture if available
0 = do not show contact picture

Can't display excel sheet within Word (EMBED Excel.Sheet.8)

Press Alt+F9 to switch between display of field codes (what you see now)

and field results (the Excel spreadsheet). 

Check add-on for Outlook 2007

Try Tools-->Options.
Click Other.
Click Advanced Options.
Click COM Add Ins.