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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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Tip 630: Cancel Assigned Tasks

posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:59 AM by outlooktips
A reader wanted to know how to cancel a task assigned to someone so that she could reassign to it someone else. While you can’t recall the task, as long as you have a copy on your task list you can create an unassigned copy and assign the copy to someone Read More
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Tip 581: Odd Reminder Times

posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:22 PM by outlooktips
Do you have a burning desire to be reminded of an appointment 12 minutes before it happens? Or 27.5 hours? Just type it in the reminder field as you create the appointment. You’ll need to use words, not shortcuts, in the reminder and snooze fields. Read More
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Tip 562: To-Do Bar Time and Dates

posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:03 PM by outlooktips
A reader wants to know how to show the date on appointments in the To-Do Bar:“When I look at my appointments in the To Do Bar I can't tell which day of the week the appointment is for since it only shows the appointment time.  It does show up when Read More
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Tip 475: To-do Bar: Click Here to Add

posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:38 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook 2007 user asked the following question in the Microsoft newsgroups: "I have my outlook to-do bar customized only to list only one category. I would like to be able to enter in tasks I need to make and have them show up. The problem is, when Read More
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Tip 460: Filter Flags

posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:16 AM by outlooktips
Sally asks "I don't want to show ALL my task, just the ones that are past due and for the next 5 days. What do I do to set it that way. In filters I can set it to show next 7 days but it won't show the past due task." Create the custom view and create Read More
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