Since converting from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007, I've noticed I never got the new mail arrived popup nor the task bar envelope icon.  I noticed that periodically throughout the day, I'd have to open Outlook, notice that the urgent email I didn't know I had came in 3 hours ago, and then run around in a panic for the rest of the afternoon doing damage control.  Or I'd open Outlook incesently every few minutes to note that I had nothing new.  Both were annoying scenarios. Every search on the topic pointed me to the standard location for such things: Tools menu...

I recently had the need to match content outside quotes, but avoid content inside quotes.  For example, I have content like so: this is content to replace, "but don't replace this string, it's \"important\"", but feel free to replace this. The answer came from http://thisworkinglife.blogspot.com/2006/04/net-regular-expressions-finding.html supported by http://regexadvice.com/forums/thread/36369.aspx and http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html and http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/022603-1.aspx The expression is added to the beginning of any other expression.  Here it is: (?<=^(([^\"]*(?<!\\\\)\"[^\"]*(?<!\\\\)\"[^\"]*)*|[^\"]*)) It means: "... and before it is an even number of double-quotes not preceeded by a \ or no quotes at all before it ..." If you've never used look-ahead or look-behind expressions, they're incredibly cool.  I understand...