Diane Poremsky

Do you need to enable automatic journaling for e-mail sent to some contacts? Rather than using the unfriendly Tools, Options, Journal dialog, add the Journal field to a contacts view and you can enable and disable journaling from the Contacts screen, either by clicking in the Journal checkbox or typing Yes or No in the journal field. You can use the Journal field with any … [Read more...] about Tip 134: Automatic Journaling

Do you have a problem with Outlook 2002/2003's autocomplete cache not working, but 'Suggest names while completing to To, CC, BCC fields' is enabled in Tools, Options, Preferences, E-mail Options, Advanced? Try renaming the *.NK2 file for your profile (C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook) and restart Outlook. Outlook will create a new one … [Read more...] about Tip 132: Suggest Names Doesn't Work?

Did you know you can create new Outlook items by selecting text and dragging it to a folder? A new item form opens with the selected text in the Notes field or message body. In OL2002 and earlier, drop the selected text either on the Outlook Bar buttons or the folder if using the Folder list. In Outlook 2003 drop the text on the folder buttons at the bottom of the Navigation … [Read more...] about Tip 129: Create New Items From Old

A question that comes up often goes something like this:"I cannot delete messages in my email inbox. Outlook says "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error when I try. My mail works fine, but I just cannot delete anything. Does someone know a solution?"There are two things that can cause problems deleting items, the most common is having too many … [Read more...] about Tip 128: Deleted Items Folder Limitations