Diane Poremsky

At one time, Microsoft had a pretty nice collection of custom Outlook forms anyone could download. While a number of the forms are no longer available from Microsoft, a sizable collection remains. You can use these as-is or as a basis for your own custom forms. See //www.slipstick.com/addins/mssampleapps.htm  for the forms that are available. While they were all designed for … [Read more...] about Tip 156: Application Farm for Custom Forms

Did you ever wonder how you could create an Outlook profile and reuse it after you reformat or want to move it to another machine?Wonder no more... there is a secret way you can do just this. It's a secret because only administrators know about it, but there is no reason why a home user with too many mail accounts can't do it too.The secret is an Outlook Profile File, … [Read more...] about Tip 155: Outlook's Profile File (PRF)

When you need to copy a table of data, such as names and phone numbers, create a new view that uses just the fields you need. Select the rows you need, then copy and paste into another document. If the document is OLE-aware, you'll need to paste into Notepad first, then Select All and copy from Notepad, otherwise, the actual contacts are pasted as objects, not text. … [Read more...] about Tip 154: Copy Outlook Data

When you have problems with Views not sticking or seemingly disappearing only to come back hours later, you may have corrupt views. You can use the /cleanviews switch to delete all custom views and reset the default views.At the Start menu, Run command, type Outlook.exe /cleanviewsIn some cases, you will need to use the full path to Outlook.exe.A list of … [Read more...] about Tip 153: Disappearing Views

If you ever tried to print just page 2 of a 4 page message, you discovered Outlook's printing capabilities leave much to be desired. The only way to print part of a message is to print it to a document or image file printer and if you have Fax listed under printers, you have the file printer. Along with Fax, other image printers are Microsoft Office Document Image Writer, … [Read more...] about Tip 152: Printing Email