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A user had this question recently “I just need to color the Subject line in an email as a one-off. Any ideas?” While this is normally easy – just create a custom view using automatic formatting – there are fewer options for one-off changes. A flag set to be due ‘yesterday’ would color it red. If you want to use other colors you’ll need to create an autoformatting rule. Color … [Read more...] about Tip 642: Coloring Subject lines

We get a lot of questions that go something like this ‘My appointments prior to [a date] disappeared from my calendar; only recurring events remain. How do I retrieve the appointments?’ This happens either because AutoArchive is enabled or because you are syncing with a mobile device and the device is set to keep a limited number of appointments. When they are deleted from the … [Read more...] about Tip 641: Appointments Gone Missing

A reader recently asked how to set a different calendar as default: "I have a Google Calendar in my Internet Calendars section of Outlook 2007.  When I start Outlook 2007 the calendar is by default not active.  I do not use the built-in Calendar under "My Calendars" but instead only use/need the Google Calendar under "Other Calendars".  Can I set up Outlook 2007 … [Read more...] about Tip 639: Choosing a default calendar

If you are seeing Copy: [subject] on appointments you copy between calendars and wonder why it’s happening, it’s a new feature of Outlook 2007 SP2. All meetings copied from other calendars are now identified as copies. The release notes for SP2 say Copy: is added to meetings copied from shared calendars, but in my experience, it happens on meetings copied from any calendar, … [Read more...] about Tip 638: Copy: [subject]