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Search for messages to or from multiple people by using the OR operator in the To and From field in the Advanced Find's first tab. You can substitute a comma for OR. From: microsoft.com or cdolive.com From: microsoft.com, cdolive.com Notes: Also works with Automatic Formatting, Views, and Search Folders (OL2003) dialogs. You can use the OR operator or comma in many … [Read more...] about Tip 138: Using OR Operator

Yesterday I told you how to use a custom form to save the Journal field checked. This trick also works for Private and other fields (as does in-cell editing from the earlier tip). If you make a custom form to set the Journal or other fields for new items you really don't need to change the existing messages to use the custom form, but if you want to, the easiest way is with … [Read more...] about Tip 137: Apply Custom Forms to Existing Items

Last week I told you how mark the contacts you wanted to journal from the contacts folder, but if you plan to journal every contact you'll want to create a custom form with the journal field set. Look for the Journal field on the All Fields tab of a new journal item. Type Yes over the No. Publish it to the Contacts folder. Right click on the Contacts folder and choose … [Read more...] about Tip 136: Set Journal Flag in Custom Form

Do you need to enable automatic journaling for e-mail sent to some contacts? Rather than using the unfriendly Tools, Options, Journal dialog, add the Journal field to a contacts view and you can enable and disable journaling from the Contacts screen, either by clicking in the Journal checkbox or typing Yes or No in the journal field. You can use the Journal field with any … [Read more...] about Tip 134: Automatic Journaling

Do you have a problem with Outlook 2002/2003's autocomplete cache not working, but 'Suggest names while completing to To, CC, BCC fields' is enabled in Tools, Options, Preferences, E-mail Options, Advanced? Try renaming the *.NK2 file for your profile (C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook) and restart Outlook. Outlook will create a new one … [Read more...] about Tip 132: Suggest Names Doesn't Work?