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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A user wanted to know if Outlook can display the total count of members of a Contact Group (distribution list). Yes, this is possible. Open the Contact Group and click Forward > In Internet Format. This creates a new message with the contents of the DL in a text file. Double click on the...
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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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An administrator wanted to know how to open the Email Properties dialog: "In outlook 2007 I double clicked the email address once Outlook had underlined it in the To field, then the email properties box opens and I could change the email type to Internet Type. But in outlook 2010 that feature is not...
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We get a lot of questions about the Location dialog that comes up the first time you enter a phone number in contacts. This is the Windows Phone & Modem dialog and you need to enter your telephone area code and save it before you can enter phone numbers for contacts. Yes, even if...
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The Contact sync bug is now fixed. Update from Gabe : The Outlook and Hotmail teams have identified the bug that is causing Contacts not to sync. The workaround is to populate a URL in the “Web page address:” field for the Contact. The Product Team is working on a Hotmail server bug fix...
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As the result of a thread in the Microsoft Answers forum that is starting to get nasty, I created a poll to gauge how many people really use Outlook’s Journal – a very small (but passionate!) subset of users as Microsoft believes, or a larger minority of users. You can vote here: Do you...
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This question came up recently: “What setting, in what control panel, does Outlook call to to default the country when creating a new contact?” The user wants Outlook to default to Canada when creating new contacts. Outlook gets the country from the Regional and Language settings in Window’s Control panel. If you want to...
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Note: This form, like most custom forms, works in all versions of Microsoft Outlook.Add a custom field and use one of the following formulas to calculate the age.Using (Now() - ) /365 rounds the age to the closest age... less than 6 months until the next birthday and it reports the age at...
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These are the icons you’ll see when you are looking in the Contacts folder. At the end are icons Exchange server users might see in the Global Address Book (GAL). Icons Description Older New Contact Form Distribution list Journal-enabled Contact (Tools, Options, Journal Options, Contacts that are checked) Not supported in Outlook Live. Custom...
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