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If you sync with a handheld device and some appointments don’t show in the month view but are visible in table views like By Category, a fix is available. Your exchange admin will need to install it. //support2.microsoft.com/kb/958781 … [Read more...] about Tip 576: PDA Sync Missing Appointment Fix

Following up on yesterday’s calendar tip, here are couple of frequent calendar questions: Older versions of Outlook compress the weekend days into one cell, spreading the week across 6 columns. To change the option for compressed weekends, right click on the calendar and choose Other settings. This puts the week into seven columns.  What if you want to show just the … [Read more...] about Tip 575: Calendar Questions

Every now and again this question comes up: My work week runs from Sunday to Thursday and I want to change the shared column to contain Friday and Saturday. It is possible to share any two consecutive days in the compressed weekend position. You’ll need to install a right-to-left language on your computer (Hebrew, Arabic, or any other right-to-left language will work) and set … [Read more...] about Tip 574: Make your own weekends

If you have a lot of messages with attachments and you need to save the attachments to your hard drive, it can take a lot of time to go to File, Save Attachments, Save all for each message. While there are several commercial add-ins that can automate the process, you can use VBA to make the process a bit faster. Since anti-spam filters don’t care much for VBA code, I won’t … [Read more...] about Tip 573: Save Attachments