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Tip 543: Save meetings, don’t send updates

posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:19 PM by outlooktips
I’m seeing a lot of questions that go like this: “After a meeting request was created and sent to all our attendees, I want to add note to that meeting on my calendar but I don't want other attendees to get the note I am saving. In Outlook 2003, it was Read More
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Tip 537: End times in the Calendar Printing Assistant

posted Monday, August 11, 2008 2:17 PM by outlooktips
By default, the Calendar Printing Assistant (CPA) includes the end time for appointments. If you prefer more space for the Subject field you can configure the CPA to drop the end times. In the CPA, go to File, Application settings. Enable Drop end 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 532: Shaded Dates

posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:26 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook 2007 user asks: “Why does my calendar look like a patchwork of color? I know it’s related to color categories on appointments, but I can’t figure out why only some of the dates are shaded when I use color categories on all of the appointments.” 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 524: Delete Recurring Events

posted Monday, July 07, 2008 10:08 PM by outlooktips
When you want to delete recurring appointments or meeting requests and keep the event history then you should set the recurring event to end today. This stops the future meetings from showing on your calendar, but keeps the previous ones. However, if Read More
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Tip 521: Printed Calendar Time Scale

posted Monday, June 23, 2008 11:27 PM by outlooktips
If you need to print a daily calendar with a 15 minute time scale, you’ll need to reduce the hours printed - 8am - 5 pm should use 15 min scale.  7am - 7pm uses 30 min. Read More
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Tip 514: Search and Calendar View

posted Friday, June 06, 2008 8:57 PM by outlooktips
A reader asks: “I conducted a search, looking for an event now I can't get back to the calendar view, all I see are the events that I searched for.” Outlook displays the search result in list format, not in day/week/month view (so you can see them without Read More
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Tip 512: Yearly Recurrence

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:49 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2007 – with the lasted update installed – now supports multi-year recurrences. This means you won’t need to use 24 months to create appointments which recur every 2 years. Sorry, that is the only change to recurrence patterns. Maybe next time Read More
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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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