Posts Tagged ‘ calendar ’

Tip 956: Too Many Contact Folders?

Use Folder Groups to hide extra calendar and contact folders

With multiple accounts in an Outlook 2010 profile, you can have ridiculous number of calendar and contact folders in your navigation pane. Older Outlook versions are susceptible too, especially if you use the LinkedIn or Windows Live social connector. We show you how to reduce the clutter.
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Tip 952: Missing Date Picker in Outlook’s Print Options Dialog

Type shortcodes in the Print Range field

The Print Options dialog in Outlook 2010 does not have date pickers available when selecting a range. I recently was upgraded to Outlook 2010. When I wanted to print a calendar in Outlook, I clicked in the date box and a small calendar would pop up to select the dates from. This has disappeared...
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Tip 932:Setting Time Zones with Recurring Appointments

Time zone selector button in Outlook 2007 and 2010

A new feature, introduced in Outlook 2007, allows the user to select the time zone for an appointments. This makes it easier to schedule appointments as you don't need ot use the dual time zone feature or think about what time it is halfway across the country or around the world. However, when you...
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Tip 928: Move Outlook’s Calendar into Windows Live Calendar

How to move your appointments from your default Outlook Calendar into the Hotmail Live Calendar using the Outlook Connector.
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Tip 926: Delete All Anniversaries and Birthdays

Change Anniversary field

A user wanted to know how to delete all anniversary and birthday items from the contacts section of Outlook 2010. It's actually very easy and doesn't require you to open each contact. Plus, it works with all versions of Outlook. To Edit Contacts To quickly edit Contacts, switch to a list view then add...
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Tip 909: View all Recurring Events?

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We get a lot of questions about how to view all occurrences of a recurring event in list form in Outlook. Unfortunately, this is not possible. The Calendar view displays the individual occurrences and the list view displays the single event. If you need to see all of the occurrences you have two options:...
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Tip 905: Location, Location, Location… Appointment Locations

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Joseph asked a question about the Location field on appointments and meeting requests: “I set up an internal office meeting and there is an arrow for selecting the Location of the meeting. Now this may seem simple to most people, but a little confusing to me. How do I add our office conference rooms...
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Tip 899: All Time Zones are not created equal

I helped several people over the last two weeks whose appointments were off by an hour or two. This is almost always the result of using the wrong time zone or daylight time setting. In each case, the users lived in an area that does not honor daylight saving time, but they used a...
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Tip 898: The Wrong Calendar Displays on the To-Do Bar

When you have multiple pst files in your profile, the “wrong” calendar may be shown on the To-do bar. This is because the To-Do bar uses the default calendar in the default data file. If you want to see a calendar in a different data file on the To-Do bar, you’ll need to change...
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Tip 892: Show More Appointments on Outlook’s Calendar

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A common complaint: When using the month view on days with several appointments, Outlook only shows the first few, with a down arrow icon which expands to Day view if there are more appointments. Because its easy to overlook the truncated cells in the month view, there is a high probability of overlooking an...
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