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December 2005 - Posts

Tip 327: More on Changing Tab Order

posted Friday, December 30, 2005 5:04 PM by outlooktips
Last week a reader asked how to change the tab order on a contacts form. A second way to change the tab stops is using the Tab Order dialog on the Layout toolbar. Use Ctrl+Click to select more than one control and you can move them up and down as a group. Read More
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Tip 326: Change the Contacts Tab Order

posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 5:03 PM by outlooktips
Ann asks:Is there a way to change the order of the tabs as you enter new information for a new contact...i.e, it tabs from Name to Title to Company then it jumps to the phone/fax/mobile fields and then back to the address. Can it be changed to tab from Read More
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Tip 325: Who is Requesting Read Receipts?

posted Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:02 PM by outlooktips
Would you like a visual indicator that someone is requesting a read receipt?  Download and extract this pst: http://www.poremsky.com/p/files/RRR.zip, then copy the RRR view so that its for ""All folders"". Extract the RRR.pst from the zip and Read More
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Tip 324: Can't Save Appointment Problems

posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:53 PM by outlooktips
For those of you who noticed the date mistake in my last tip, one problem Outlook doesn't have is getting the date wrong. That was all me. How will I ever make it through 2006 if I'm still writing 2004 in Dec of 2005? <g> However, there are numerous Read More
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Tip 323: You're Got Mail Sound

posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 4:52 PM by outlooktips
Do you get a "You've Got Mail" announcement in Outlook 2003 and you aren't using AOL? It means you have a Toshiba computer and have an application called Toshiba Voice enabled. In Outlook, go to Tools, Options, Other, Advanced Options, Add-In Manager Read More
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Tip 322: Imported Appointments are 'Busy'

posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:49 PM by outlooktips
In a long ago tip, I explained how to create a count down calendar - but when it's imported, the events are shown as busy in the calendar. A reader asks "Can that be changed so I am shown as 'available'?" Of course, and you have two ways you can do it. Read More
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Tip 321: Finding Folder Paths

posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:49 PM by outlooktips
Deeply nested folders don't make for very efficient email management, in part because it's so easy to forget where a folder is, especially if you use a complicated filing scheme. Common questions from people with deep folder trees are: If you forget Read More
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Tip 320: SBS2003 and Account Order

posted Monday, December 05, 2005 4:41 PM by outlooktips
A common complaint among some Exchange server users is that their Exchange account keeps getting reset as default. This is a "known issue"if the Exchange server is running on Microsoft Small Business Server 2003. There are several ways to correct the Read More
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