Outlook Tips

Learning Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time

Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

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Mark Appointments or Dates Completed in Outlook

A lot of people want Outlook’s calendar to work like a paper calendar – they want to cross off appointments as they finish or X out “yesterday” to mark it complete. Also see Automatically change Appointment categories using VBA Outlook doesn’t offer such an option, but Outlook 2007 (and up) users can use color categories to mark events ‘completed’. Just create a Completed … [Read more...] about Mark Appointments or Dates Completed in Outlook

Tip 503: Display Work Hours

John asksI'd be happy if I could get my calendar to start with showing the start of my workday just below the all day events -- instead of 5AM. My workday starts at 8AM. I have reset my view, thinking maybe there was something in my customized view. Any ideas?This is another case where size matters. When the window height is large and the time scale set to longer … [Read more...] about Tip 503: Display Work Hours

Tip 468: 2008 Holidays

Older versions of Outlook are "missing" holidays for 2008 and beyond. Microsoft has released updates for some versions and I converted the file to support older versions... see Outlook’s Missing Holidays for the download and more information.To use the file, replace the existing holiday file found in the 4-digit language folder under C:\Program Files\Microsoft … [Read more...] about Tip 468: 2008 Holidays