Diane Poremsky

As anyone whose used Outlook for years knows, setting Outlook to mark quoted text with a prefix, such as a ">", results in spell check checking the entire message. Using Word as your email editor and HTML as the default message format allows you to use a prefix and not spell check the quoted text. (Outlook 2002 and 2003) To change your quoting style, open Tools, Options, … [Read more...] about Tip 85: Spell Check and Quote Prefixes

Are you using Outlook 98 or 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode and are going to upgrade to Outlook 2002 or 2003? When you do, create a new profile, don't use the profile Outlook upgrades for you. While Outlook retains profiles when it's upgraded, many users are having problems with Outlook that go away when they create a new profile, with the most problems on upgrades from IMO … [Read more...] about Tip 83: Upgrading Profiles

Did you know you can drag one or more Outlook Notes to the Inbox to create a message? The Note text and last Modified date for each Note is added to the message body. Use this trick with Outlook 2003 to print Notes on a continuous sheet of paper, since Outlook 2003's File, Print menu forces Notes to separate sheets of paper. When you want the Notes printed on one page, … [Read more...] about Tip 80: Printing Notes

When you color code a shared calendar by user, you can tell by just looking at the calendar if someone is busy. You need Outlook 2002/2003 to use this tip and have no more than 10 people using the calendar, since Outlook only supports 10 colors. (Color-coding in Outlook 2000 is available only in table view.) Assign each user a Label color and if they forget to use their … [Read more...] about Tip 79: Color Coding a Shared Calendar