Fix for issue with message sizes in Outlook 2010 Beta

Recently, we posted information on the Outlook blog about a bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta that increases the message size of some e-mails messages sent from the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team has been hard at work building a fix for this issue, which is available immediately.

Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 32-bit Office 2010

Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 64-bit Office 2010

This fix prevents future messages from consuming unnecessary space, but doesn’t resize existing messages. If you reply or forward an existing message that is affected by this bug, it remains enlarged. To help reduce the impact of large messages on your Inbox and mailbox storage quota, you can also run Conversation Cleanup (new feature in Outlook 2010) on large folders. On the Home tab, in the Delete group, click Clean Up. Also, consider starting new message conversations or threads when possible.

Although Office 2010 is in Beta and is not final, we are both excited and humbled by the fact that more than 2.5 million people have downloaded and used the Beta. We want to make sure you have a great experience with Office 2010. If you are using the Office 2010 Beta, take a moment to download this important fix.

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  • As usual, MS manages to release a Beta that should not be released. I have thousands invested in "Windows" software. I am buying an Apple tommorrow and will begin a long an painful transition to a stable platform.

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    JOHN Q. PULIC wrote: As usual, MS manages to release a Beta that should not be released.

    ------------------------------- Hmm. Are you sure that you DO understand what terms "beta" and "public testing" means? And, stepping aside from the main theme - I always liked MacOS way more than Windows family products but was bound to use Windows because of corporate restrictions and several other reasons, usually switching back and forth. Last week brought me a surprise - after switching for a week on Mac OS I've realized that Windows 7 (espec. with 2010 beta installed) is way more usable than Mac OS and I was missing several Win7 features in Mac OS. Hurray, no blowing hot and cold anymore - Win7 rocks. Thanks MS for finally thinking of usability the way it should work.

  • Hi there, I'm receivibf three (3) copies of every email in my inbox. Can you pls advise?

  • Last comment should have read: Hi there, I'm receiving three (3) copies of every email in my inbox. Can you pls advise?

  • can anyone suggest solutions for chronic problem of outlook beta 2010 crashing when sending an email out? Also, the setting for reading pane bottom disapears every time after set?

  • JerryWallace i think that there is the same procedure to import/export contacts in 2010 like there is in the 2007 version.

  • I can repro a similar bug with RichText email with the RTM version of Outlook 2010. Insert a 572KB picture into a Rich Text email, upon send the sent email is 3MB. Using Exchange 2010 if that is part of the mix.

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