Tips Archive

We're seeing complaints about super-sized fonts - the user composed using 10 point and the recipient gets some words in 100 point. This is caused by scanning email with an antivirus scanner and the scanner removed the dot in the font size, changing  it from 10.0 to 100 or 12.0 to 120. AVG 2011 gets most of the blame, but a few people said disabling other antivirus scanners … [Read more...] about Tip 811: Super-sized fonts

An Outlook user asked: “Many programs and web-based applications allow you to create a calendar event and save it to your calendar, using an .ics file. For example, an airline generates an appt. for your flights. Is it possible for these events to go to a different calendar instead of the users calendar? “ Sure. When you open the appointment, contact or other item don’t use … [Read more...] about Tip 809: Save appointment to another calendar

Nestled underneath the Navigation Pane, you’ll see a timer showing how long is remaining until Santa Claus crashes down your chimney, as well as links to play a Christmas song, send email to Santa, plan events, and create a Christmas mailing list. It’s free from add-in-express and works with all versions of Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit), on Windows XP, … [Read more...] about Tip 808: Christmas Countdown add-in

A user presented this scenario and question: Manager assigns a task due tomorrow. Employee accepts the task, but wants to change the due date to next week to let their manager know they can complete the task, but not as fast as the manager wants. Can the employee change the due date on his task and on the managers copy? Yes, if the boss requested updates, the employee can … [Read more...] about Tip 807: Change assigned task due date