Diane Poremsky

When you attempt to create an appointment or tasks and the date and time picker won't stay out long enough to pick a date, it’s not a bug in Outlook, its either because you are using the TweakUI power toy's X-mouse style mouse control (or similar utility) or a pop-up blocker. … [Read more...] about Tip 588: Misbehaving date picker

We get questions from quite a few people who need to prepare an email then forward it (as an attachment) to someone else to send. But the Send button is grayed out and the message can’t be sent.  In order for the Send button to be live, the message needs to be in the Drafts folder. The recipient can drag it from the message and drop it into his Drafts folder. … [Read more...] about Tip 586: Forward Drafts

A user asked: “Can you save a sent message on an individual basis to the sent folder or is it an all or nothing scenario?” Yes, you can control it per message. Look on the Options ribbon in Outlook 2007 or on the Options button/dialog in older versions. From this dialog you can choose a different folder to save the message, choose not save it or save it if your default is … [Read more...] about Tip 585: Save Sent Messages

Get Office Standard 2007—Military Appreciation Edition for just $49.99. This “special edition” includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Offer valid through the end of June 2009 and is for members of the US military only. See //www.microsoft.com/office/offers/military/?WT.srch=1 for more information. As mentioned in a previous tip, college students can get Office … [Read more...] about Tip 583: Office 2007—Military Appreciation Edition

This is a Windows tip, not Outlook, but it’s asked often enough in Outlook forums that its worth putting in a tip. The problem goes something like this: “I’m having problems opening attachments.  They open with [some program I don’t like]. How do I make them open in a program I like?” Locate a file of the affected type in your My Documents folder (save the attachment to … [Read more...] about Tip 582: Open With…