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By Diane Poremsky April 26, 2012
We have the solutions to common problems users experience when syncing Outlook's Calendar with the iCloud Calendar.
Continue reading: iCloud and Outlook Problems: Syncing CalendarPosted in Outlook | Tagged Calendar, icloud, outlook |
By Diane Poremsky April 26, 2012
We have the solutions to common problems users experience when syncing Outlook's Contacts with the iCloud Contact folder.
Continue reading: iCloud and Outlook Problems: Syncing ContactsPosted in Outlook | Tagged contacts, icloud, outlook |

By Diane Poremsky April 25, 2012
Step-by-step instructions you can use to delete or hide the default folders (such as the junk email and suggested contacts folders) that Microsoft Outlook creates in your data files.
Continue reading: How to Delete Outlook’s Default FoldersPosted in Featured, Outlook | Tagged contacts, feature-ol, folders, junk mail, outlook |

By Diane Poremsky April 24, 2012
While you can't change Outlook's 18 hour default reminder, you can use VBA to remove the reminder or change it to a different time. While the tweaks here work specifically with reminders on All Day events, this code can be tweaked to do almost anything when a new appointment or event is saved.
Continue reading: How to Remove or Change the Reminder on All Day EventsPosted in Developer, Featured | Tagged appointments, Calendar, calendar other, feature-ol, reminders, vba |

By Diane Poremsky April 21, 2012
Use a macro Outlook's Contacts with company names longer than 40 characters or more than 1024 characters in the notes field before importing them into Hotmail Connector's Contacts folder.
Continue reading: Check Contacts before moving them to Hotmail Contacts folderPosted in Hotmail Connector | Tagged contacts, hotmail connector, hotmail sync, outlook, vba |

By Diane Poremsky April 19, 2012
There are two methods you can use to keep canceled meetings on your calendar: keep the cancellation notice or use a Run a Script rule to create an appointment using using the meeting details. Code sample included.
Continue reading: Keep Canceled Meetings on Outlook’s CalendarPosted in Featured, Rules, Filters & Views | Tagged Calendar, calendar meetings, feature-ol, outlook, rules, run a script, vba |

By Diane Poremsky April 16, 2012
If you want to save messages in a universal format and want the attachments stay with the document, you need to convert the message to RTF format then save the message in *.doc format. . While you can do this in Outlook, it takes several steps. Using VBA to save messages to your hard drive in *.doc format takes just seconds.
Continue reading: Save Messages as *.DOC File TypePosted in Developer, Featured | Tagged attachment, outlook, vba |
By Diane Poremsky April 16, 2012
There are a lot of former Notes users who don't like how Outlook handles attachments. In Notes, it's really easy to send an attachment to people in the To line but not to those in the CC or BCC lines. While its usually better that send a link to the attachment on the file share
Continue reading: Don’t Send Attachments to CC’d Recipients?Posted in Email |

By Diane Poremsky April 16, 2012
Unlike Lotus Notes, Outlook does not include a built in method to reply or reply all and include the original attachments in the reply. However there are ways to do it, including using VBA to create custom reply and reply all buttons. We show you how.
Continue reading: Reply or ReplyAll with AttachmentsPosted in Email | Tagged attachments, email, outlook, reply, vba |

By Diane Poremsky April 16, 2012
An Outlook user asked how to automatically change the subject of a message and forward it to another address. Using a "run a script" rule is one option and we show you how to do it.
Continue reading: Run a Script Rule: Change Subject then Forward MessagePosted in Rules, Filters & Views | Tagged rules, run a script, vba |
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