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May 2008 - Posts

Tip 510: Change Reminder Times

posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:24 AM by outlooktips
A user asks: “Is there any way I can change the options for ALL recurring events.  When I add a birthday into my contacts it sets the reminder at 15 minutes starting at 12:00 a.m.  I would like to change the reminder and the time to something Read More
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Tip 509: Disappearing All Day Events

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:51 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook 2007 user asks: “I have the weirdest problem. When I create an All Day Event, I can see it in the Month view, but not in Week or Day (nothing is in the top area except a downward pointing arrow, and clicking on the down arrow just brings up Read More
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Tip 508: Moving Sent Items

posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:57 AM by outlooktips
A user asks: “Is it possible to place a sent e-mail directly in a local pst folder rather than put it in the sent items folder on the server? When sending an email and using the options to store the email to a folder I can only choose a folder on the Read More
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Tip 507: Crossing Out Days, Part 2

posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:59 AM by outlooktips
After yesterdays tip for Outlook 2007, several readers wanted to know if it would work for Outlook 2003. Sorry, no, it only works with Outlook 2007. You can assign labels to completed appointments in Outlook 2002/2003 to mark them off but you are limited Read More
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Tip 506: Mark off Calendar days

posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:17 PM by outlooktips
A lot of people want Outlook’s calendar to work like a paper calendar – including the ability to X out “yesterday” to mark it complete. Outlook doesn’t offer such an option but Outlook 2007 users can use color categories to mark events ‘completed’. Read More
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Tip 505: Current View Pane

posted Monday, May 19, 2008 1:15 PM by outlooktips
In Outlook 2003 and 2007, the Navigation pane may contain a list of views available for the folder. If you have a large number of folders, the Current view section is usually hidden until you scroll down, but in the Calendar pane, the number of navigation Read More
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Tip 504: Hotfix for Outlook 2003 BCC MIME Bug

posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:07 PM by outlooktips
If you use Outlook 2003 on Vista you may have noticed some messages have the header in the message body, often when you were BCC’d on the message. There is now a hotfix for this (and other issues) available from Microsoft.  For more information see:Description Read More
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Tip 503: Display Work Hours

posted Monday, May 12, 2008 1:05 PM by outlooktips
John asks “I'd be happy if I could get my calendar to start with showing the start of my workday just below the all day events -- instead of 5AM. My workday starts at 8AM. I have reset my view, thinking maybe there was something in my customized Read More
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Tip 502: Change Flags

posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:07 PM by outlooktips
I’ve seen several complaints about the following problem recently, so I think it’s time to address it with a tip.  In Outlook 2007, the Today flag is the same color as the No Date flag. This makes it hard if you use the flag colors to help triage Read More
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Tip 501: Sort Views Alphabetically

posted Monday, May 05, 2008 9:49 PM by outlooktips
The list of Views you see in the Define View dialogs or View selector lists groups the views into four groups, based on the type of view. You can’t sort the views alphabetically but they will be alphabetical within each group, with the groups in this Read More
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Tip 500: Word's Reading layout

posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:56 PM by outlooktips
Its been a few years since I last covered Reading layout and it’s time for an update. An Office user asks: “All e-mailed docs open up in Reading Layout (two page views). Is there a setting in Word or Outlook to change the default to Normal view?” Sure. Read More
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