Diane Poremsky

Outlook 2007 (and 2010) adds Next and Last buttons in the Reading pane and opened messages to make it easier to jump between the quoted messages. Not everyone likes this feature and if you are one of these people, you can disable message header shading. In Outlook 2007, go to Tools, Options, Email Options, Shade message headers when reading mail. In Outlook 2010, turn it off … [Read more...] about Tip 671: Hide Next and Last Buttons

Earlier this week, the question was about how to send a message to a group of people but only send the attachment to the recipients in the To line. This brings up a related question: How can I easily send to the original sender an Office document that was attached to an email I received and revised by me. Right now, I need to save the document with my comments, reply to the … [Read more...] about Tip 670: Reply with attachment

We get often get questions from users who would like to have the option to send attachments only to the To-list, with the CC and BCC recipients just getting the message without the attachment. Unfortunately Outlook doesn’t offer such an option. If you need to send attachments to some recipients and not to others you’ll need to resend the message or forward it without the … [Read more...] about Tip 669: CC without attachments?

An Outlook user asked how to add a background image to a new appointment. Outlook doesn’t have a command to do this directly, but it is possible using one of two methods. 1. Create a message with a background image, Select All and paste into the appointment body. 2. Use an HTML editor to create a page with a background image and use Insert HTML as text. This method works … [Read more...] about Tip 668: Background images

A surprising number of people ask how to combine multiple calendars into one. It’s actually easy – just drag and drop appointments from one to the other, but not from the Day/Week/Month view. That view just complicates things. Switch to a table (list) view, such as All Appointments or By Categories. Then select all and drag to the desired folder. (Or use the Move to folder … [Read more...] about Tip 666: Combine Calendars