Diane Poremsky

Advanced Find allows you to save the searches as Office Saved Searches (*.oss). Choose File, Save Search. Once saved to your hard drive, you can copy them to any folder within Outlook, or drop it on the Outlook bar for easy access. To run the search, just double click on it. As an added bonus, if you customize the view in the results pane, saving the search also saves the … [Read more...] about Tip 233: Saving Advanced Finds

From the DUH! Department, for an idea so simple you wonder why you didn't think of it: A lot of people are bugged that Outlook 2003's Drafts folder doesn't have a preview pane. If you are one of them, create a custom Search folder that only searches Drafts. Don't use any criteria and all items will be shown in the Drafts Search Folder. Add it to your Favorites folder list for … [Read more...] about Tip 231: Previewing Drafts in Outlook 2003

... and why it removes subject keywords.When you reply to a reply (or forward a forward) Outlook strips the original RE prefix (or FW) and replaces it with a new one, to prevent multiple RE's on the subject line. Occasionally you'll notice it fails to remove the prefix and you end up with a long string of Re's. This is because the first Re contains a leading space. It's in … [Read more...] about Tip 230: Why Outlook doesn't remove Re: Re: Re:

You can copy your Outlook Bar or Navigation Pane shortcuts to another computer (or another profile) by copying the *.xml or *.fav for your profile. Rename it to match the profile name it's to be associated with. Obviously, if the items on the bar are not identical, from the name to the file path, the shortcut won't work and Outlook will complain. Note also that the FAV file, … [Read more...] about Tip 229: Copy your Outlook Bar Customizations