Tips Archive

An Outlook user asked: “I am using outlook 2007 and have a question. How can I display the Gregorian and Islamic calendars simultaneously?” Go to Options, Calendar options and enable Show an alternate Calendar. Select the type of calendar you want to view and then Apply. … [Read more...] about Tip 781: Display Alternate Calendars

Thinking about using Publisher to design your newsletter? One word: Don’t. When Publisher sends email, it converts the design to a bunch of images in a table. You can’t edit the text in Outlook – because there is no text to edit, only pictures of the text. Design the message in Outlook or an HTML editor instead (use File, Send after previewing IE or use Outlook’s Insert … [Read more...] about Tip 780: Using Publisher to Design Email

An Outlook user asked a question at Outlook Forums: “I have been trying to figure out how to add a tick box for outlook inbox view for every message line, one that I could myself tick and use for sorting?” Jorma is looking for a way to make Outlook work similar to web-based accounts, where you can click in a checkbox then do something with the selected messages. You can do … [Read more...] about Tip 779: Create a checkbox

I recently had a question about Outlook 2010's Group Schedules: "When I try to look at schedules in Outlook 2010 it tells me "More than 30 calendars cannot be viewed at once" so is there some other way I can set this up so that we have the same functionality when we upgrade to Outlook 2010? " I recently learned of a registry change you can make to allow more group schedules … [Read more...] about Tip 778: View More than 30 Group Schedules

Earlier this week, Microsoft released hotfixes for both Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. The Outlook 2007 hotfix  fixes word wrapping in calendar print outs, which was broken by the July update, however, this update does not restore the end times to the print out. A complete list of the issues addressed by the Outlook 2007 hotfixes is described in the following KB … [Read more...] about Tip 777: August Outlook Updates