Outlook Tips

Learning Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time

Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

Diane Poremsky

Tip 708: Printing Calendars and Notes

Although printing calendars is not “green” and defeats the purpose of having an electronic calendar, there are times when we need to print a calendar.  One thing that confounds many users is choosing a print format that include a notes section – it’s always blank. There are a lot of printing bugs but this is one thing that can’t be blamed on a bug – it’s “by design”. The … [Read more...] about Tip 708: Printing Calendars and Notes

Tip 707: Outlook Update Spam

This tip should be common sense, but I’ll take this opportunity to remind users that Microsoft does not send out updates by email – if you aren’t using automatic updates, you need to go to Microsoft Update to check for updates. I highly recommend using automatic updates, but if you choose not to, check Microsoft updates at least once a month, preferably at least once a … [Read more...] about Tip 707: Outlook Update Spam

Tip 706: Disappearing Email

“After I read the email it is gone......looked everywhere....what do I do?”This is caused by using the Hide Read Messages view. Switch to a different view by selecting a new one from the View menu. I’m not sure why this problem is cropping up more often lately – it was a popular topic in years past because the view refreshed itself every few minutes. Since Outlook 2003, users … [Read more...] about Tip 706: Disappearing Email