Microsoft Office Outlook cannot provide form scripting support This feature is not available

If you get the following error message in Outlook on a Terminal Server, do the following:
Run this from a command prompt: msiexec /i [GUID] ADDLOCAL=OutlookVBScript /qb

You need to find out what GUID your Office version have. The easiest way to do that is to open Regedit and start a search from this key:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Uninstall

All GUID’s start with a brace ({). Search for Office and you will find the right key. So, for example, if you run Office Outlook 2007 Proffessional Plus you would run this:
msiexec /i {90120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} ADDLOCAL=OutlookVBScript /qb

Calibri Font Not In Office 2003

Users who have Office 2003 and reply to an Office 2007, the email will change the original email's font from Calibri font to Heavy Heap. This is because the default font in Office 2007 is Calibri which is not available in Office 2003.

To get the font for Office 2003 users, install the Office Compatibility Pack which will install the Calibri font.

Download link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9A1822C5-49C6-47BD-8BEC-0D68693CA564&displaylang=en

Office 2007 opens slowly fixes

Some people have observed Office 2007 products taking longer than normal to open. Specifically Excel, PowerPoint and Word. The other issue is that attachments in Outlook 2007 can take a long time to open. Below are several things you can do to improve opening times.

Add-ins can make Office 2007 open very slowly.

Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker - The first thing to check for is Adobe Acrobat add-in PDFMaker. You can do a search on the c drive for “pdfmaker.dot, pdfmaker.xla, pdfmaker.ppa”. Search instructions based on what version of Windows you are running:

Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows 2000:
1. Click Start, and then click Search.
2. Click All files and folders.
3. In the All or part of the file name box type: pdfmaker.dot, pdfmaker.xla, pdfmaker.ppa
4. Press ENTER.
5. Right-click the file, and then click Delete.

Windows Vista
1. Click Start , type pdfmaker.dot (for Microsoft Office Word), pdfmaker.xla (for Microsoft Office Excel), or pdfmaker.ppa (for
Microsoft Office PowerPoint), and then press ENTER.
2. Right-click the file, and then click Delete.

Outlook 2007 Add-Ins - Uninstall any unnecessary 3rd party ad-ins.

1. Open Outlook and go to Tools->Trust Center
2. Navigate to Add-Ins in the left column
3. Select COM Add-ins in the Manage drop down and click Go
4. Uncheck any unnecessary add-in like Norton or Symantec product and Click OK

Modify the Way Windows Opens and Shares Data

1. Launch Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) by double clicking My Computer.
2. Navigate to Tools->Folder options.
3. Click File Types tab
4. Select list item XLS (Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Worksheet) and click on Advanced. (hint, you can quickly type xls))
5. Select Open and click Edit
6. In the “Application used to perform action” box, scroll to the end. Add a space and then “%1” . Make sure to include the double quotes.
Example for Excel would be "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"
7. Uncheck Use DDE.
8. Click OK
9. Repeat steps for Read Only and then repeat steps 4 – 8 for the following file types:
xlsx
doc
docx
ppt
pptx

Or put the following in a text file and save as .bat. Double click the .bat file for it to automatically populate the registry for you.
# doc
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.8\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\WINWORD.EXE\" \"%1\""
# docx
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.12\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\WINWORD.EXE\" \"%1\""
#xls
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE\" /e \"%1\""
# xlsx
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE\" /e \"%1\""
#ppt
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PowerPoint.Addin.8\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\POWERPNT.EXE\" \"%1\""
#pptx
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PowerPoint.Addin.12\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\POWERPNT.EXE\" \"%1\""

The next time you open Office 2007 it should be faster. If not, unregister the products and reregister them. To do this Navigate to Start->Run and type each line in separately. Note that each time done it will open the product.
Excel /unregserver
Winword /unregserver
POWERPNT /unregserver
Excel /regserver
Winword /regserver
POWERPNT /regserver

Last but least, install Microsoft add-in, Lookup Wizard, to Excel 2007.

More can be read at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302596
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=328399&sliceId=2
http://www.m3rlin.org/wordpress/slow-opening-excel-2003-files-in-excel-2007/
http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Excel-extremely-slow-opening-ftopict950153.html

http://excel2007-slow-open-file.blogspot.com/

Excel 2007 Can't Save As 2003 Issue With Specific File

I have one Excel file that is in 2003 format and needs to be saved in 2003 format. The problem I was having was when I saved the file as 2003 using Excel 2007, excel would always crash. This was happening on multiple computers with the file being stored locally. A side note was that if the file is saved as 2007, compatibility pack would also crash.

A fix that i found was to remove Windows Update KB908531. To do this go to Add/Remove Programs and check Show Updates. Scroll down until you fined KB908531 and delete it. Restart your computer.

Major Bug in Outlook

I believe I have found a major bug in Outlook. I say major because when this issue involves sending emails as BCC. When you send an email as BCC you are sending it because you don’t want the recipient to be able to see who else it was sent to.

If you follow the steps below the recipient is able view the names of all the BCC recipients.

To reproduce the issue

Go to your ContactsRight click contact and select New Message to ContactMove the name from To field to the BCC field.
Click View->OptionsIn the Contacts field is the name of the BCC recipient which was originally the To recipient. The Contacts field should be empty instead.


This information is viewable to the recipient if they print it out or by making the message editable (forward, reply or reply to all) and clicking the message's option button. After clicking the option button the Contacts field will display the names of the BCC recipients. If the recipient prints the email out it will print the usual fields of From, Sent, To, and Subject. The print out will also display a Contacts field which contains all the BCC recipients names.

There are a couple of workarounds:

Clear the Contacts field prior to sending if using the steps above
Create a new email in Outlook by going to File->New Message and populate the BCC field by clicking the BCC button

It appears that Outlook is not correctly clearing the Contacts field after moving the name from To to BCC. This only happens when you right click a contact and select New Message to Contact.

I have researched this issue and have not found any information about it including Microsoft.

Lesson learned, be careful when you send an email BCC because it might not be blank.