Diane Poremsky

A new user of Outlook 2013 had this question:I like the Weather feature in Outlook 2013, but I need it for more than the 2 days that are showing up.Outlook 2013 will show three days of weather but the catch is that the area between the date and search field needs to be wide enough to fit three days of weather. If the month name is long, the calendar period spans … [Read more...] about Tip 1080: Showing Weather in Outlook 2013

A user recently had this query:I want to set up a condition that allows me to highlight all messages from my boss, say, as red, then I would also be able to filter to show only those emails highlighted as red.Conditional Formatting (called Automatic Formatting in older versions of Outlook) is used to color messages from someone. This is actually a view and the color … [Read more...] about Tip 1079: Filtering Outlook emails by color

Outlook is not fully touch enabled and there are a number of things you can't do just with your fingers; you need to use the Touch bar or a pen. (On my Sony, the default screen resolution is so high that some things are too tiny for fingers.)I recently bought a new Samsung smart ATIV Pro Windows 8 tablet PC which I use now as my primary work machine (it's awesome Btw). My … [Read more...] about Tip 1077: Outlook 2013 Touch mode

In Outlook 2010, I was able to save a few "template" messages in the draft folder and when I needed to send a message, I could click Forward and kept the original to use later. With Outlook 2013, Forward is disabled. How can I save a copy of my messages?In older versions of Outlook, you could easily use Draft messages as templates, simply select a draft message and … [Read more...] about Tip 1076: How to reuse Draft messages

I'm starting to see questions from Outlook 2013 users who are trying to use scanpst and are unable to find it. Scanpst was not removed from Outlook 2013 C2R and you can find it in under the Office installation folders, which are different in the click-to-run versions.When the click to run version is installed, scanpst is under the root directory in the install … [Read more...] about Tip 1075: Scanpst.exe in Outlook 2013