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I’m seeing quite a bit of confusion over the Suggested Contacts folder in Outlook 2010. It’s a contacts folder containing addresses you’ve sent mail to that are not already in your “good” contacts folder. It’s not a copy of the autocomplete cache, although addresses in the folder should also be in the autocomplete cache (unless you cleared the cache). Importing an old … [Read more...] about Tip 828: Suggested Contacts

Outlook uses the long date format set in Windows for date formatting in the calendar, both onscreen and in printouts. For example, if you want to include the day of the week on printed calendars or display the full name of the month above the navigation calendars, check your long date format in Control Panel’s Region and Language applet. You can make your own date formats if … [Read more...] about Tip 827: Date formatting in Calendar

A user asked “In XP you can go to the Outlook property box, delete "/recycle" from the end of the target address and be able to open up multiple copies of Outlook so you can have instances of mail, calendar, contacts, etc., open simultaneously. How do you do this in Outlook 2010 on Windows 7?” Outlook 2010’s shortcuts don’t use the /recycle switch so you can select any link to … [Read more...] about Tip 825: Open multiple instances of Outlook

A visitor to Outlook Forums wanted to know how to "import photos directly into Outlook through some type of script. The photos are named by last name then first name." You can use VBA to do this in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. Code and instructions are at Batch Import Photos into Outlook Contacts … [Read more...] about Tip 824: Import contact photos