Diane Poremsky

I've had a couple of queries recently relating to the Fax and Scan program in Windows. Users with 64-bit Windows  are unable to select a fax recipient from the Outlook or BCM address book. Fax and Scan can't use the Outlook address book because Outlook is a 32bit application and runs on a WOW layer on 64-bit operating system so when Contacts is opened by Windows Fax and … [Read more...] about Tip 755: Outlook and Windows 64-bit “Fax and Scan”

An Outlook user asked: “I need to know how to stop Outlook task items from converting/changing the number of hours needed to complete the task to the number of days.” The User is talking about the hours worked on the Details page of an Outlook Task form or in the Total Work and Actual Work fields in a list view. Outlook doesn’t have a specific setting for these fields – it … [Read more...] about Tip 754: Task Hours and Days

Do you need to move folders from one pst file to another pst file? Or delete a bunch of folders from a pst? If you’ve tried this before, you’ve discovered you can only move (or delete) one folder at a time. However, you do move or delete all items within that folder – including all subfolders. So… when you need to move or delete a number of folders, drag the folders into one … [Read more...] about Tip 753: Moving Folders

When you use the Outlook Calendar Printing Assistant and the Year with Images 01 template, you can change the image used for each month by very carefully hovering along the edge of each monthly square then right clicking and selecting the option to change the image. If you don’t get the image menu when you right click, move the mouse around slowly until a screentip about … [Read more...] about Tip 752: Change images in Calendar Printing Assistant

This week a couple of users asked if there was any way to make the Subject line in a Task two lines. In Outlook 2003 the subject line expanded if it did not fit in one line; now it scrolls. No, unfortunately you can’t change the subject line in Microsoft Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 so it expands to two lines instead of scrolling. … [Read more...] about Tip 751: Task subject on two lines