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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 716: Address book sort order

posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 10:04 PM by outlooktips
An Outlook user asked: “When I click on "To" to select who I am sending an email to, the "Select Names" dialog box pops up, with "Show Names From The" "Contacts" by default. The list of contact is sorted "First Name Last Name" how do I reverse this 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 686: Correction: Copy names and addresses

posted Friday, December 11, 2009 9:33 AM by outlooktips
Following up on yesterday’s tip – you need to use File As field, not the Full name field, otherwise you’ll get the field name in the copy (but not on screen). (I double checked the view I use for this purpose to verify the field, but typed Full Name anyway.) Read More
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Tip 685: Copy names and addresses

posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:28 AM by outlooktips
A user had this question: “I occasionally need to copy the name, title, company and address of an individual contact to a Word or Excel document. Or in some cases all of the data I have for a contact. Is there a way to do that without copying line by Read More
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Tip 684: Search for Duplicates

posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:26 AM by outlooktips
“I exported the personal file folders from my desktop and imported them into  my laptop.  Now I have many duplicate messages.  Obviously I did not select  the correct option.  How do I remove them other than one at a time?” You Read More
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Tip 682: Mail Merge Categories

posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:57 AM by outlooktips
It seems like the words “mail merge from contacts” causes eyes to glaze over and users to freak out. I don’t know why. It’s actually really easy to do. But I get a lot of questions about it, especially at this time of year (holiday letter time).To show Read More
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Tip 680: Select Contacts for Journaling

posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:59 PM by outlooktips
The method most people use to select contacts for automatic journal activities, is to go to Tools, Options, Journal options and manually click each contact to include them in the automatic journal activities.It’s clumsy and slow. The other method in that Read More
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Tip 651: Contact printing bug fix & more

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:25 AM by outlooktips
Back on June 17 I told you about a contact printing bug in Outlook 2007 SP2. I’m happy to report there is a hotfix available for it. The original problem: “Outlook 2007 SP2 has a Contacts printing bug – if you try to print a selection of Contacts in Read More
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Tip 631: Contact Printing Bug

posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:45 PM by outlooktips
Outlook 2007 SP2 has a Contacts printing bug – if you try to print a selection of Contacts in any of the Card views, Outlook cashes.  Until a fix is released, either print using a table view or copy the selection to a new folder and print All items. Read More
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