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Due to limitations with the calendar overlay feature, Outlook 2007 does not offer the option to compress weekends. Many users liked compressed weekends because it offered a visual clue that it was a weekend. The day and weekly views shade non-working days, and the weekly view can show only the work week but the monthly view doesn’t offer either option. . If you need the … [Read more...] about Tip 535: Compressed Weekends

A user asks: “I no longer see the Subject, To, From and attachments fields on my emails.  I do not see this info even if I double click and open the email.  How do I get this info to always display?” It sounds like you are not showing the header fields. For the preview pane: in the View menu find Customize and look under Other settings. You can also right click … [Read more...] about Tip 533: Show or Hide Message Header

An Outlook 2007 user asks: “Why does my calendar look like a patchwork of color? I know it’s related to color categories on appointments, but I can’t figure out why only some of the dates are shaded when I use color categories on all of the appointments.” When you add a color category to a timed appointment, the background of the appointment is shaded in Day/Week/Month view. … [Read more...] about Tip 532: Shaded Dates

If you use an iPhone and appointments created on the phone are not visible in Outlook’s Day/Week/Month view but do show in the By Category (or any table) view, try this: Open the event on the iPhone and change it to recurring daily then end the recurrence on the date of the event before syncing. Let me know if it works for you. More information is available at iPhone, … [Read more...] about Tip 530: iPhone and Missing Appointments

Do you need to convert a distribution list to individual contacts?  Although Outlook doesn’t have an option to save individual contacts out of a DL, you can save the DL as a text file and import it to create individual contacts.Saving the DL as a text file saves the names and addresses in a tab separated file. The file will need tidied up before importing it into Outlook: … [Read more...] about Tip 529: Create Contacts from a DL