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December 2008 - Posts

Tip 577: Custom Views

posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:12 AM by outlooktips
If you show the Advanced toolbar (View, Toolbars) you can easily change views on Outlook’s folders. You can even save new views by typing over the name of the current view in the Current View field. After you hit Enter or tab out of the field, Outlook Read More
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Tip 576: PDA Sync Missing Appointment Fix

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:09 AM by outlooktips
If you sync with a handheld device and some appointments don’t show in the month view but are visible in table views like By Category, a fix is available. Your exchange admin will need to install it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;95878 Read More
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Tip 575: Calendar Questions

posted Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 AM by outlooktips
Following up on yesterday’s calendar tip, here are couple of frequent calendar questions: Older versions of Outlook compress the weekend days into one cell, spreading the week across 6 columns. To change the option for compressed weekends, right click Read More
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Tip 574: Make your own weekends

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:23 PM by outlooktips
Every now and again this question comes up: “My work week runs from Sunday to Thursday and I want to change the shared column to contain Friday and Saturday.” It is possible to share any two consecutive days in the compressed weekend position. You’ll Read More
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Tip 573: Save Attachments

posted Friday, December 12, 2008 12:10 AM by outlooktips
If you have a lot of messages with attachments and you need to save the attachments to your hard drive, it can take a lot of time to go to File, Save Attachments, Save all for each message. While there are several commercial add-ins that can automate Read More
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Tip 572: Outlook Connector doesn’t connect to MSN/Hotmail

posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:08 AM by outlooktips
If you use the Outlook Connector and its not connecting, check your Outlook add-ins and security software. It’s reported PGP software will interfere with the connection, other software may affect it as well. To test, disable all addins except the connector. Read More
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Tip 571: Backup more files

posted Friday, December 05, 2008 12:06 AM by outlooktips
Want to backup (or delete) the custom.dic, signatures, templates, Outlook’s nickname cache, or stationery? Paste this command in the address bar of Windows Explorer:%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft These files, and more, are stored in subfolders Read More
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Tip 570: Backup Email

posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:56 AM by outlooktips
The easiest way to backup your email, calendar, and contacts is to copy the PST but finding it is a problem for many people, in part because it’s in a hidden folder. From Outlook, go to File, Data File Management. Select the default PST and click Open Read More
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Tip 569: Oops, Marked all as Read

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:54 AM by outlooktips
It happened to all of us at least once or twice: we accidently mark all messages as read, rather than just one.  Unfortunately there isn't an 'undo' command. The modified date field is not affected either, so it’s mostly impossible to know which Read More
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