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March 2009 - Posts

Tip 603: Long Months

posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:25 PM by outlooktips
This will fix itself tomorrow, but for those frustrated by the layout of the monthly calendar during long months, try setting Sunday as the first day and disabling compressed weekends. You’ll see all of March once you make this change. Outlook 2007 Read More
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Tip 602: Mr. FixIt

posted Friday, March 27, 2009 1:22 PM by outlooktips
Microsoft is rolling out a service called Fixit. When the solution to a problem can be fixed by an automated method Microsoft will include the FixIt wizard in the article along with the manual steps. When a KB offers a prepared fix for the issue described Read More
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Tip 601: Show time as Types

posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:41 PM by outlooktips
One problem telecommuters face is in setting up their Outlook calendar to show their availability. If they set up appointments marked out-of-office (because they are out of the office) no one will schedule calls or appointments, thinking they are unavailable.  Read More
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Tip 600: Outlook 2007 Color Themes

posted Monday, March 23, 2009 11:40 PM by outlooktips
We see a lot of questions about Outlook and Office Home & Student 2007 – the users have both installed but don’t have themes available in Outlook.  This is because themes are only available if you have Outlook installed as part of a suite. Read More
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Tip 599: Stop phone number formatting

posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:38 PM by outlooktips
If you are one of the users who doesn’t like how Outlook formats numbers or you sync with a PDA that doesn’t understand formatted phone numbers, you can temporarily stop the formatting by pausing the Telephony service. (Control panel, Administrator Tools, Read More
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Tip 598: Sending unreadable email?

posted Monday, March 16, 2009 10:42 PM by outlooktips
We’re seeing several reports each week from users whose sent mail is converted to Chinese characters or question marks. One frequent cause is the antispam program BullGuard.  If you are using this program, check for updates and if the problem continues, Read More
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Tip 597: OneCare and Macro Security

posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:20 PM by outlooktips
If you use Microsoft's OneCare you are prevented from using the No Security check macro setting. If you choose this option (which is not recommended), OneCare will reset it so that all unsigned macros are disabled.  Either sign the macros with SelfCert Read More
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Tip 596: Dual time – DST View Bug

posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:01 PM by outlooktips
Another DST “bug” to be aware of this week: if you use dual time zones in Outlook and the week view (starting on Sunday), the time offset may be wrong all week. To correct it, use work week or day view instead. For example, if your default time zone Read More
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Tip 595: Daylight time problems

posted Monday, March 09, 2009 4:59 PM by outlooktips
If you are having problems with Outlook’s appointment times after daylight time changes, make sure you have the newest time zone definitions for your operating system and use the Outlook appointment rebaser tool. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928388 Read More
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Tip 594: Folder list shortcuts

posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:58 PM by outlooktips
Did you know you can use the numeric keypad’s  + (plus), – (minus) and * (multiply) keys to expand and collapse folders in the navigation pane or folder list? The left and right arrows can also be used to expand and collapse the folders (use the Read More
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