Diane Poremsky

Outlook 2007 – with the lasted update installed – now supports multi-year recurrences. This means you won’t need to use 24 months to create appointments which recur every 2 years. Sorry, that is the only change to recurrence patterns. Maybe next time we’ll see quarterly appointments. I don’t think we’ll ever see fifth week in a month because making Outlook handle it correctly … [Read more...] about Tip 512: Yearly Recurrence

A user asks: “Is there any way I can change the options for ALL recurring events.  When I add a birthday into my contacts it sets the reminder at 15 minutes starting at 12:00 a.m.  I would like to change the reminder and the time to something else without having to do them all individually. Also how can I set a category without doing it all individually as well?” Ah, … [Read more...] about Tip 510: Change Reminder Times

An Outlook 2007 user asks: “I have the weirdest problem. When I create an All Day Event, I can see it in the Month view, but not in Week or Day (nothing is in the top area except a downward pointing arrow, and clicking on the down arrow just brings up a new blank appointment form). However, I've just noticed that if I'm not Maximized, the events show up in all three views! I'm … [Read more...] about Tip 509: Disappearing All Day Events

A user asks:Is it possible to place a sent e-mail directly in a local pst folder rather than put it in the sent items folder on the server? When sending an email and using the options to store the email to a folder I can only choose a folder on the Exchange server.Sure, you can use rules to move a copy to any folder. Open the Rules wizard and create a “Check … [Read more...] about Tip 508: Moving Sent Items