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Tip 467: Send To Revisited

posted Friday, December 21, 2007 9:50 PM by outlooktips
Way back in Feb 2004 (375 tips ago!), the tip told you how to use Word as the editor with the Send to menu (the default Send to Mail recipient link uses the Outlook editor). By creating a shortcut in the Sendto folder, you could right click on any file Read More
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Tip 466: Meeting Requests

posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:47 PM by outlooktips
When you send meeting requests to people using an older version of Outlook than you are, do not add a reminder to it. Add a reminder to your copy after its sent. Yes, something as simple as a reminder flag can cause problems when the versions aren't the Read More
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Tip 465: Save Button on Messages

posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:10 PM by outlooktips
The curious among us may wonder why open email messages have a Save button.   It just saves the original message. For example, if the message has an attachment and you remove the attachment (right click, remove) then press Save to save the message Read More
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Tip 464: Address Book Options

posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:54 PM by outlooktips
Oh where, oh where are the address book options? Not all in one place. :) 1. Address book's Tools, Options menu. (Ctrl+Shift+B to open the address book) If you only have one source of addresses you won't need to use the dialog. But if you have multiple Read More
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Tip 463: Another Calendar Printing Bug

posted Monday, December 17, 2007 4:40 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2007 has a lot of calendar printing bugs, which I suppose, is why they released a Calendar Printing Assistant. Some were fixed in SP1. Others are just coming to my attention, probably because I don't print calendars. The newest bug involves printing Read More
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Tip 462: Flag Reminder Times

posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:43 PM by outlooktips
Did you know that Outlook 2007's Today quick flag default reminder time is 1 hour before the end of your work day while the Tomorrow, This week, and Next week flags default to the time of the start of the workday as set in Tools, Options, Calendar options. Read More
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Tip 461: Outook 2007 SP1

posted Friday, December 07, 2007 5:26 PM by outlooktips
Office 2007 SP1 public release is scheduled for December 11. The SP1 includes all of the client and server products. (Exchange 2007 SP1 came out last week.) One much anticipated fix in SP1 is printing from Outlook. Not all of the printing bugs were fixed, Read More
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Tip 460: Filter Flags

posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:16 AM by outlooktips
Sally asks "I don't want to show ALL my task, just the ones that are past due and for the next 5 days. What do I do to set it that way. In filters I can set it to show next 7 days but it won't show the past due task." Create the custom view and create Read More
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Tip 459: More Navigation Calendar Tricks

posted Monday, December 03, 2007 12:15 AM by outlooktips
Following my tip on selecting weeks to create partial month calendar view, Bob asks "Is it worth mentioning to people, that you can also use this trick to generate day / 2 day / 3 day 4 day views etc, by selecting a group of dates in the same horizontal Read More
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