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Tip 549: Save Sent Items

posted Monday, September 22, 2008 12:23 AM by outlooktips
I get quite a few questions from users who have a personal and business email account configured in their profile. They want to store Sent items in different folders based on the account that was used to send the message. While this is an easy problem Read More
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Tip 547: Ultimate Steal

posted Monday, September 15, 2008 11:09 PM by outlooktips
Once again Microsoft is making Office 2007 available at a very affordable price for qualified college students through their Ultimate Steal promotion. It’s currently available for sale in 7 countries, with 6 more coming soon. Office 2007 Ultimate is Read More
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Tip 546: Delete Stuck Message

posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:02 AM by outlooktips
I’ve had a lot of questions lately asking how to delete large message stuck in the Outbox so I thought it was probably time to revisit this subject. First, try setting Outlook offline (look on the File menu). Wait a few minutes and in most cases the Read More
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Tip 545: Outlook 2007 and Themes

posted Monday, September 08, 2008 1:00 AM by outlooktips
If you use a standalone version of Outlook 2007 you won’t have the use of themes and stationery or some spell and grammar check features. One workaround is using templates (*.oft) instead. You can copy the template to a folder in Outlook so it’s easy Read More
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Tip 542: Change File As Format

posted Friday, August 22, 2008 9:58 PM by outlooktips
If your contacts use different File As formats and you’d rather have all contact use a single format but changing each contact will take too long, you can use VBA to change the File As format on all contacts within minutes. Code sample which was tested Read More
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Tip 535: Compressed Weekends

posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:33 AM by outlooktips
Due to limitations with the calendar overlay feature, Outlook 2007 does not offer the option to compress weekends. Many users liked compressed weekends because it offered a visual clue that it was a weekend. The day and weekly views shade non-working Read More
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Tip 530: iPhone and Missing Appointments

posted Friday, July 18, 2008 10:28 AM by outlooktips
If you use an iPhone and appointments created on the phone are not visible in Outlook’s Day/Week/Month view but do show in the By Category (or any table) view, try this: Open the event on the iPhone and change it to recurring daily then end the recurrence Read More
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Tip 529: Create Contacts from a DL

posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:27 AM by outlooktips
Do you need to convert a distribution list to individual contacts?  Although Outlook doesn’t have an option to save individual contacts out of a DL, you can save the DL as a text file and import it to create individual contacts.  Saving the Read More
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Tip 528: Sort By Category

posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:25 AM by outlooktips
Many users are surprised when they discover they can’t sort by category. It is possible to sort by category but you need to use the By Category view.  It works this way because the category field can contain multiple categories (and few would want Read More
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Tip 527: Save as… Acrobat package

posted Monday, July 14, 2008 10:24 AM by outlooktips
A recent tip told you how to save multiple messages to a text file by selecting the items and choosing File, Save as.  If you are fortunate enough to have Acrobat 8, you can print to an Acrobat package. Each message and any attachments will be a Read More
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