Posts Tagged ‘ customize ’

Change Outlook 2013's upper case ribbon names to proper case.

Twice this week users asked how to create a view that sorted the items in a folder way they wanted to sort them. The first person wanted to group tasks by the folder they were in then sort by due date within the group. The other person wanted to sort contacts by icon. Both...

Many users have a hard time seeing the account names in the Navigation pane folder list – regardless of the Office theme, the font is too small and lacks contrast to read it easily. Brad had this to say It's very difficult to see the names of my Inboxes in Outlook 2010. I found an...

You can use the Forms designer to design custom forms for Outlook. To open it, open any new form then go to Tools, Forms, Forms Designer (in older versions of Outlook). In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, you need to show the Developer ribbon before you can open the form in design mode.  Outlook 2010:...

If the ribbon in Outlook2010, or on open items in Outlook 2007, is missing, you have the ribbon minimized. When the ribbon is minimized, the File tab appears to be the default tab, instead of the Home or Messages tab. Actually, the File tab isn’t really made default, it just seems so because of...

I show you how to publish a custom form in Microsoft Outlook and set it as the default form for the folder. I also show you how to convert existing items to use your new form.

A reader asks "Is there a way to have the "Favorites" (the Internet Explorer "Favorites") show up again in both Word and in Outlook, like it did in Office 97?" Open the Tools, Customize dialog, look on the Commands tab and locate the Favorites command under Menu bar category - drag it to the...