Diane Poremsky

Sometimes when you select and copy something, then open a contact to paste it in on of the contact fields, you'll discover the clipboard is cleared.This is caused by an Outlook add-in, such as stamps.com, that copies icons to the clipboard when it creates tools on the form, clearing the text you copied.The fix: Open the contact form first, then copy and paste or … [Read more...] about Tip 238: Clipboard clears when you open a Contacts form

Do you want to countdown the days (or weeks) until vacation? Do you want to know someone's age on their birthday? Outlook doesn't support either option, but with a little help from Excel, you can easily create appointments that read "1 day until vacation", 2 days until vacation" or "Jack is 41", "Jack is 42". The short version: Create a spread sheet with Start Date and … [Read more...] about Tip 237: Create Countdown Appointments

A reader writes: I have multiple individuals that share calendars in Outlook. I can't figure out how to have the shared calendars and also a public calendar appear automatically when I start Outlook. My calendar always starts, and then I have to check the boxes for the other calendars that I want to open. Can you help me?Unfortunately, Outlook 2003 doesn't offer a method … [Read more...] about Tip 236: Open multiple Outlook 2003 Calendars automatically

From a reader: "In Outlook 2000, once you were inside contacts (as opposed to calendar, mail, etc), you could simply start typing the letters of a person's name, and outlook would bring up the correct address card as soon as you'd typed enough letters. Now I don't see any way to search except to hit the alpha letters at the right screen - a laborious process - or to search … [Read more...] about Tip 235: Calendar Shortcuts

Today's tips are two of my favorite Windows tips that can make life a lot easier. Do you use Firefox but need IE for some sites? Make shortcuts that open IE to the site using the format for the command line:iexplore.exe www.outlook-tips.net If you need to open a website on a regular schedule, you can use this command line in Task Scheduler. Do you have several web sites … [Read more...] about Tip 234: Windows Shortcuts