Outlook Tips

Learning Microsoft Outlook One Tip At A Time

Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]

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Tip 874: Schedule multiple non-recurring appointments

A user recently asked about scheduling recurring appointments that don’t fit a recurrence pattern “Our company just started with Outlook and we have not been able to figure out how to schedule an appointment with multiple dates that are not a recurring date.”While this is a feature in other corporate mail systems, Outlook (and Exchange server) supports only recurring … [Read more...] about Tip 874: Schedule multiple non-recurring appointments

Tip 868: Display a person's current age on their birthday event in Microsoft Outlook's Calendar

A frequent request is the ability to display a person's age on their birthday event in Outlook's calendar. We used to say "you can't" and pointed users to our custom form that displays a contact's current age. We've since learned of a way to use custom fields to populate the subject field - one use of this is to add the age to the subject field of an appointment. Uses for … [Read more...] about Tip 868: Display a person's current age on their birthday event in Microsoft Outlook's Calendar

Outlook's Calendar and Task Icons

The following are icons you may see in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016, or newer Calendar folders. If you have an older version of Outlook, the icons will be similar in most cases. Calendar Icons In current versions of Outlook, the Daily, Week, and Monthly calendars won't display icons by default. You'll need to turn on the option to Show bell icon on the calendar for appointments … [Read more...] about Outlook's Calendar and Task Icons