Tips Archive

This Sunday much of the US switches to Daylight Savings time and starting this year, Indiana drops the Indiana (East) time zone and residents move to either Eastern time or Central time, depending on the county they live in. While the time changes always seem to lead to many questions that start with "all of my appointments are off by an hour...", this year could be more … [Read more...] about Tip 347: Indiana Time Zones and Daylight Savings

Tarja asked this question: "When in the Other Settings box, just below 'in-cell editing' is 'show "new item" row'. When selected it puts a new row at the top of the listed messages. I see that I can create an Untitled Discussion message. Can you recommend how to use this?"That field is most useful in Tasks, Calendar, or Contacts. When you have the new row showing, you … [Read more...] about Tip 346: New Item Row

After a break for spring break, I should be back on my regular tips schedule. "When composing an email, many times a little bubble will appear next to the recipient's name. If I move over it, a menu appears. What this is?" It's a Person SmartTag and you can disable in Outlook's Tools, Options, Other tab. You may see something similar in the message body when you type names, … [Read more...] about Tip 345: SmartTags

From Tim: "I've scoured your various sites but can find nothing about finding and deleting empty folders in Outlook. Do you know of a way or a tool that can do it?" I'm not aware of any way to make this process easy - you can view the folder sizes in the mailbox properties, but you can't delete folders from this list. You'll have to find and delete them yourself. To view the … [Read more...] about Tip 344: Finding Empty Folders

A reminder for anyone who has a Hotmail/MSN account and uses Outlook exclusively to check email: You need to log into your account on the website (//www.hotmail.com) occasionally to verify you are a real person. If you receive a message like this: Mail: [address] This service is unavailable right now. Please try again later. We're sorry. Your account has been disabled. For … [Read more...] about Tip 343: Outlook Live / Hotmail Service Unavailable