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There is a daylight saving time display "bug" that affects both Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Mac. It's not really a bug, but a limitation of the capabilities of the time scale and only affect people who start the week on Sunday. It's also more noticeable if you use Outlook for Windows with two time zones enabled and the default zone is west of the secondary zone. There … [Read more...] about Daylight Saving Time Calendar Display Bug

After installing the June 13 2017 security update for Outlook 2007, users discovered that iCloud is not working in Outlook. When you try to expand the folders, you receive an error message: The set of folders cannot be opened. An unexpected error occurred. MAPI was unable to load the information service C:\PROGRA~2\COMMON~1\Apple\INTERN~1\APLZOD32.dll Until this is fixed … [Read more...] about Fixed: iCloud doesn't work in Outlook 2007

An Outlook 2010 user reports: Windows just updated Outlook with many updates and now I cannot open any attachments. I now see one of two dialogs when I try to open or save contacts, tasks, etc. One dialog is the "unsafe attachment" warning when I close and item; the other tells me the attachment was added by Outlook and Outlook is not installed: "The program used to create … [Read more...] about Bugs in Outlook's June 13 2017 security update

Is there an easy way to add a date stamp to the Notes field in Contacts? Sure. Outlook for Windows desktop has a Date & Time command on the Insert tab in all Outlook Items except (sticky) Notes. This is the same Date & Time command found in Word and it supports the same keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+D to insert the date (use Alt+Shift+T for time) using the default date and … [Read more...] about Insert Date Stamp into Contact Notes

Of all the years to get the date wrong for the US Election day, it had to be this year. Fortunately, it's a week early, so no one is going to miss voting because the calendar was wrong. The HOL file supplied with Outlook 2010 has the US Election day on November 1 (don't we wish!), when it really is November 8. The date was corrected in a later HOL file; on my Outlook 2013 … [Read more...] about Outlook Holiday Error: Election Day