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Tip 759: Quick Click Reminders

posted Tuesday, July 06, 2010 12:22 AM by outlooktips
Quick Click flags (and flag for follow up rules) use the reminder settings for Tasks. If you have the option enabled to set reminders on Tasks with due dates, quick clicks (for Today, Tomorrow, This week, or Next week)  will have a reminder set. Read More
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Tip 754: Task Hours and Days

posted Friday, June 25, 2010 8:06 AM by outlooktips
An Outlook user asked: “I need to know how to stop Outlook task items from converting/changing the number of hours needed to complete the task to the number of days.” The User is talking about the hours worked on the Details page of an Outlook Task form Read More
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Tip 751: Task subject on two lines

posted Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:56 AM by outlooktips
This week a couple of users asked if there was any way to make the Subject line in a Task two lines. In Outlook 2003 the subject line expanded if it did not fit in one line; now it scrolls. No, unfortunately you can’t change the subject line in Outlook 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 730: Custom Flags and Reminder Times

posted Monday, April 05, 2010 9:10 PM by outlooktips
When you use custom flags in Outlook 2007 and 2010, the default reminder time depends on your choice for the Quick Click flag and the start or end time for your work day, set in Calendar options. If Quick click is set to Today, it’s reminder is 1 hour Read More
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Tip 715: Reminders and Recurring Tasks

posted Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:07 PM by outlooktips
The behavior of recurring tasks and reminders confuses a lot of users – when a reminder for a task is dismissed, all that happens is the reminder is dismissed on the current occurrence. The task is not marked complete and the next task is not generated. Read More
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Tip 711: Esc to close

posted Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:12 PM by outlooktips
A few people have complained about the Save and Close button being so close to the Delete button that they accidently delete appointments and contacts.  The solution: use the Ctrl+S to save and Esc key to close.  Or just use Esc and answer Read More
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Tip 646: Remind Sounds, part 2

posted Friday, August 07, 2009 6:12 PM by outlooktips
My last tip told you how to change the reminder sound, but where do you find the sounds? Anywhere!  Windows includes some sounds at C:\Windows\Media and many programs install their own wav files. You can also download sound files from the Internet Read More
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Tip 633: Tasks, Reminders & Due dates

posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:18 PM by outlooktips
Recent updates to Outlook 2007 changed the behavior of tasks in the reminder window. In the past, reminders that fired at 10 AM showed due at 10 AM in the reminder window and an hour overdue at 11 AM. Now, the reminder window shows the tasks due at Read More
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Tip 632: Default Tasks Due Date

posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:22 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user had this question: “Can I set the default due date for tasks in Outlook 2007 to "None". Most of the tasks I create (using the To-Do Bar’s Type a Task field) do not require a due date. The default seems to be "Today".” None is the default Read More
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