Tips Archive

A user asks: I'd like to take all the data listed under Home Phone and move it to Primary Phone. Or maybe just rename the Home Phone column as Phone, but that doesn't appear to be possible. I don't see any way to select the entire Home Phone column and copy/paste it to the Primary Phone column. Moving data to another field You won’t be able to change every field in one … [Read more...] about Tip 513: Move Data to Other Fields

Outlook 2007 – with the lasted update installed – now supports multi-year recurrences. This means you won’t need to use 24 months to create appointments which recur every 2 years. Sorry, that is the only change to recurrence patterns. Maybe next time we’ll see quarterly appointments. I don’t think we’ll ever see fifth week in a month because making Outlook handle it correctly … [Read more...] about Tip 512: Yearly Recurrence

A user asks: “Is there any way I can change the options for ALL recurring events.  When I add a birthday into my contacts it sets the reminder at 15 minutes starting at 12:00 a.m.  I would like to change the reminder and the time to something else without having to do them all individually. Also how can I set a category without doing it all individually as well?” Ah, … [Read more...] about Tip 510: Change Reminder Times

An Outlook 2007 user asks: “I have the weirdest problem. When I create an All Day Event, I can see it in the Month view, but not in Week or Day (nothing is in the top area except a downward pointing arrow, and clicking on the down arrow just brings up a new blank appointment form). However, I've just noticed that if I'm not Maximized, the events show up in all three views! I'm … [Read more...] about Tip 509: Disappearing All Day Events