The header in the reading pane or in an open message takes up quite a bit of screen real estate: In older versions of Outlook you can shrink the header down to the subject line by editing the view or by carefully right clicking on the left edge of the reading pane and selecting...
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When I set up my email accounts, they all went into one Inbox. I set up separate Inbox folders for each and the new emails are coming in correctly, but how do I get the emails I downloaded first separated into the 5 correct Inboxes? I have 1500 messages, so it's not feasible to...
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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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Every now and again, we get asked if there is there a limit to the number of Automatic formatting rules. (Conditional Formatting in Outlook 2010) The question usually goes something like this: In Tools/Organize, you can choose a color to display a message from a specific sender when messages are received in Inbox. I’m...
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There are several ways you can access the dialog to customize or reset the views. Some of the menus offer two options: Define views or Customize Current View. More information on which to choose is at the end of this article. Outlook 2010: It’s much easier to customize and reset views in Outlook 2010,...
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Outlook 2007′s Day/Week/Month calendar doesn’t have the reminder icon, making it hard to see at a glance if you need to set a reminder. You can make it easier with a custom view that hides items without reminders. The Remind Beforehand field displays the number of minutes before an event that the reminder will...
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Many times users are told to “reset the view” to fix problems with the display in Outlook but they don’t know how to do this. There are several ways. First, you can reset the views for the entire mailbox. When you open Outlook using the /cleanviews switch you will wipe out all custom views...
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Microsoft Outlook has a feature called Automatic Formatting which lets you color items in a list, making them easier to see. While it’s called an “automatic formatting rule” its not a Rule applied by the Rules Wizard but a feature of a View. The formatting is not applied directly to the item and will...
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Note: You can use this method to apply any changes to all folders using the same view. It’s not limited to the group by feature. While this method also works with Outlook 2010, you can create a custom view and apply it to all folders. Look for the Apply to all folders option on...
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Microsoft Outlook doesn’t offer an easy method to backup or share custom views, and exporting the contents to a new pst does not include the views or custom forms. You can save views using one of these three methods in older versions of Outlook: Copy the pst and remove all email, calendar and contacts...
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