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Tip 768: OL2007: Line Wrap in Calendar Printout

posted Monday, August 02, 2010 3:27 PM by outlooktips
In older versions of Outlook, users could print a monthly calendar and long subjects wrapped to multiple lines.  This was broken in Outlook 2007 – if you wanted the subject to wrap, you needed to use the Calendar Printing Assistant. Following a Read More
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Tip 761: Outlook 2010 Dual Time Zone bug

posted Friday, July 16, 2010 6:07 PM by outlooktips
When you use Outlook 2010’s dual time zone feature and one time zone uses DST and the other does not, when you swap zones the Use DST checkbox in Window’s Date and Time applet may be unchecked when the time zone that uses DST is active. Because Outlook Read More
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Tip 752: Change images in Calendar Printing Assistant

posted Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:03 AM by outlooktips
When you use the Outlook Calendar Printing Assistant and the Year with Images 01 template, you can change the image used for each month by very carefully hovering along the edge of each monthly square then right clicking and selecting the option to change Read More
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Tip 748: Open the Calendar automatically

posted Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:13 PM by outlooktips
A user asked “Is there a way I can make my Outlook Calendar automatically open to remind of what I've got to do ?” If you want Outlook to run when you start Windows, you need to put a shortcut to Outlook in the startup folder. If you want Outlook to Read More
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Tip 745: Outlook 2010 and 30 Calendars

posted Friday, May 21, 2010 6:23 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2010 has a limit of 30 calendars selected at any one time. If you try to select more than 30, you’ll be alerted:  “More than 30 calendars cannot be viewed at once.” It’s surprising to have a limit because Outlook 2010’s Schedule view makes Read More
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Tip 739: Hotfix: Windows Mobile and 12 year Recurrence Issue

posted Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:29 PM by outlooktips
Last fall I mentioned a problem Windows mobile users had when syncing birthdays after installing Office 2007 SP2, where they birthdays changed to recur every 12 years. This is now fixed:Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package (outlook-x-none.msp): Read More
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Tip 737: Reminders Dialog

posted Monday, April 26, 2010 12:12 AM by outlooktips
The reminder dialog doesn’t always come up “in your  face” with Windows 7. If the reminder dialog is minimized to the taskbar and a reminder fires, the taskbar will flash – the window will not come up on the screen. If the reminder window is Read More
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Tip 733: Calendar Details View

posted Friday, April 09, 2010 1:14 PM by outlooktips
We’re seeing some questions from users whose appointments are missing from the Month view but their all day events are visible. If this happens to you, check the Detail level. Outlook 2007 and 2010 have a view option called Details – it can be set on Read More
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Tip 721: Contact Birthdays

posted Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:08 PM by outlooktips
When you import contacts, their birthdays are not automatically added to the calendar as they are when you create a new contact manually or edit existing contacts. You have three options:1.     Open and save each contact2.     Read More
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Tip 720: DST, Times, Time Zones

posted Monday, March 15, 2010 3:50 PM by outlooktips
Surprisingly, things are pretty quiet today. We’re usually bombarded with questions about wrong appointment times right after DST begins and ends. Maybe this is a good sign that everyone has the DST updates installed and the correct time zone and DST Read More
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