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Is there an easy way to add a date stamp to the Notes field in Contacts? Sure. Outlook for Windows desktop has a Date & Time command on the Insert tab in all Outlook Items except (sticky) Notes. This is the same Date & Time command found in Word and it supports the same keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+D to insert the date (use Alt+Shift+T for time) using the default date and … [Read more...] about Insert Date Stamp into Contact Notes

Of all the years to get the date wrong for the US Election day, it had to be this year. Fortunately, it's a week early, so no one is going to miss voting because the calendar was wrong. The HOL file supplied with Outlook 2010 has the US Election day on November 1 (don't we wish!), when it really is November 8. The date was corrected in a later HOL file; on my Outlook 2013 … [Read more...] about Outlook Holiday Error: Election Day

Did you know you can change the folder Outlook uses as the default folder to save attachments? You can also change the default folder that opens when you click Browse this PC on Outlook's Attach File menu (Insert Attachment in older versions) but when you make this change, it changes the default folder for open or saving files in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. (Note: … [Read more...] about Change Outlook's Open or Save Attachments Folder

I receive a lot of complaints about the change in the unread message preview option introduced in Outlook 2013. In Outlook 2010 and older, you could show a 3 line preview of Unread messages and no preview for read messages. In Outlook 2013, this was changed to an option of 1, 2 or 3 lines but applies to all messages, read or unread and not everyone likes this change. I spent … [Read more...] about Show AutoPreview for Unread Messages

When I open any Office 2013 application, there is a yellow banner under the ribbon that literally shouts "GET THE NEW OFFICE It's one of the perks of having Office 365." There is an X at the right-hand end of the banner that allows you to dismiss the banner. Unfortunately, the banner reappears every time I switch to a different email account in Outlook. I have not found a way … [Read more...] about Remove Office 2013 Upgrade Banner