Problem: cannot paste Excel table into Outlook Mail message or Winword document

 

One day you get sudden trouble: the copied Excel table or table portion cannot be pasted into Outlook mail message or Winword document. Only plain text contents appear instead.

Do not search for “hidden” Excel or Office settings. The reason is surprising Skype Click to Tel Add-On

Go to Program and Features (aka Add/Remove Software) and remove the AddOn – the easiest way to get rid of this effect and enjoy!

UPD: see also http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/omg-skype-click-to-call-breaks-excel-so-it-can-only-paste-text/

Problem: cannot open PDF attachments using Outlook 2007 / 2010

Using Outlook 2007 or 2010 you may encounter strange problem:  PDF mail attachment won’t be opened with Acrobat Reader X (we monitored the problem with Outlook 2007 and 2010 using Acrobat Reader X 10.1.1).

While the attachment can be previewed in Outlook mail reader pane:

a double click on the same attachment in the same mail brings the Acrobat Reader X Window with error dialog box above saying: “There was an error opening this document. Access denied.”

The side effect is: if at least one Acrobat Reader X instance (program window on desktop) is already running, the attachment will be opened properly. Only if there’s no Acrobat Reader X window opened before you try to open a PDF mail attachment from Outlook – the error message appears.

The solution is:

• open Acrobat Reader X
• navigate menu Edit->Preferences:
  
• uncheck “Enable protected mode at startup”:
  
• confirm appearing dialog with “Yes”:
  
• close Preferences Dialog with “OK”
• close Acrobat Reader X
• retry to open PDF mail attachment
• …enjoy!