BCC, please appear

First things first: Why am I posting so much today? Well, after my
vacation to Tonga, I was buried in email (1200 messages) that required answers,
not just deletion. That's 1200 with my filters on, with my rules going etc. When
I first came to Microsoft, I was overwhelmed, and I tried to respond to mail as
soon as it entered my inbox. What I soon learned is to work in a batch-oriented
process. Just while typing this blog entry, several mails have arrived. I will
get to them. Maybe, unconsciously I have found that I get better performance
when I follow the GC model of the .NET Framework. I mark and sweep, clean out
the objects, grabbing those that have been in memory for shortest time first and
freeing up their memory. Whatever. I am taking this way too far.

Anyway, I am catching up on things (I'm down to about 300 pre and
post vacation messages). This respite has given me the chance to catch up on a
few tasks. One of things I like is to have the BCC button appear on my default
mail form in Outlook. It is not there by default. To get it to appear, I just
add this registry key/value:

##########################

Warning: Altering the registry can cause problems
if done incorrectly.

If you are unsure about the registry or how to
alter it, you should not make changes using this method.

##########################

ShowBcc=dword:00000001

I add this to
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences

Rock on

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
  You can also do this, by creating a new mail,
  and selecting View -> BCC Field. This will display the BCC each subsquent time a new mail is created.
• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
  you don't need to edit the registry to do this. merely open a new email form (CTRL+SHIFT+M), click on the view menu, and check the "bcc field" entry.
  
  the bcc field should appear on all new email forms from now on.
• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
  So where's the "Reply to List" registry key?
• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
  You can also simply click View -> BCC Field when editing an email. This setting will persist.
• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
  
  In Outlook 2003, start a new message, do View -> BCC. Outlook will remember this value.
  
  
• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
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• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
  List of actions in Outlook that are available but not as easy to find as they should:
  
  * Having a BCC button (great example on why placing an overall option inside the message options is counterintuitive)
  * Viewing message headers (e.g., to quickly see that a message from "Kevin" is actually coming from gksgjf@happyspammers.net. Are headers an "option"?)
  * Changing the reply address (why
  isn't this available as a message property?)
  
  Some more?
  
  Don't forget that you have the power to get them fixed ':)
  
  (Disclaimer: I'm talking about O2K, I have the O2K3 CDs sitting on my desk and I haven't upgraded yet. Some issues may have already been fixed)
• Anonymous
  August 16, 2004
  Ah,
  You assume I have too much power!
  
  Thanks all for showing me how to do this in UI. I was unaware of how to make it stick in the UI. I always had one-off behavior. The reg setting solved it for me.
  
  
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