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Do you want to countdown the days (or weeks) until vacation? Do you want to know someone's age on their birthday? Outlook doesn't support either option, but with a little help from Excel, you can easily create appointments that read "1 day until vacation", 2 days until vacation" or "Jack is 41", "Jack is 42". The short version: Create a spread sheet with Start Date and … [Read more...] about Tip 237: Create Countdown Appointments

A reader writes: I have multiple individuals that share calendars in Outlook. I can't figure out how to have the shared calendars and also a public calendar appear automatically when I start Outlook. My calendar always starts, and then I have to check the boxes for the other calendars that I want to open. Can you help me?Unfortunately, Outlook 2003 doesn't offer a method … [Read more...] about Tip 236: Open multiple Outlook 2003 Calendars automatically

From a reader: "In Outlook 2000, once you were inside contacts (as opposed to calendar, mail, etc), you could simply start typing the letters of a person's name, and outlook would bring up the correct address card as soon as you'd typed enough letters. Now I don't see any way to search except to hit the alpha letters at the right screen - a laborious process - or to search … [Read more...] about Tip 235: Calendar Shortcuts

Today's tips are two of my favorite Windows tips that can make life a lot easier. Do you use Firefox but need IE for some sites? Make shortcuts that open IE to the site using the format for the command line:iexplore.exe www.outlook-tips.net If you need to open a website on a regular schedule, you can use this command line in Task Scheduler. Do you have several web sites … [Read more...] about Tip 234: Windows Shortcuts

Advanced Find allows you to save the searches as Office Saved Searches (*.oss). Choose File, Save Search. Once saved to your hard drive, you can copy them to any folder within Outlook, or drop it on the Outlook bar for easy access. To run the search, just double click on it. As an added bonus, if you customize the view in the results pane, saving the search also saves the … [Read more...] about Tip 233: Saving Advanced Finds