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To change the hourly interval in Outlook
Outlook's calendar supports multiple time scales, from 5 minutes to 1 hour. While you can't make your own interval, you can change the scale to one more suitable for your needs. When you create a new appointment or meeting and are in the Day or Week view, the default length of the appointment is the
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When you migrate meetings from an Outlook mailbox or PST file to another Mailbox or PST file, meeting requests will be "broken" and you will be missing the "Send Update" option. As a result, you will be unable to send updates to the meeting attendees. The usual error is that the meeting request is not
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Add Holidays to Outlook’s Calendar
Create a Custom Holiday File (HOL) to share any type of all day event with other Outlook users. We include a sample file that counts the days since Jan1 and the number of days left in the year.
Continue reading: Add Holidays to Outlook’s CalendarSearching Outlook’s Calendar
A user contacted me this week, looking for solutions to his search problems. Advanced find is crippled in Outlook 2010 (and Outlook 2007) and although Instant Search can handle most searches, Advanced find can search more fields and Query Builder lets you refine your searches, but you can't save the searches or print the results.
Continue reading: Searching Outlook’s CalendarMeeting Times not correct in Outlook 2010
A user complained about the GMT offset not being applied to meetings received from other time zones in Outlook 2010: "Having an issue with Outlook 2010 where the GMT offset is not being applied to meetings received from time zones other than local. Meetings appear ok on mobile email and webmail calendar as well as
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How to Hyperlink to Appointments (icals)
A frequently asked question is "How do I provide a link for someone to click to add an appointment to their calendar?" The answer: save the appointment as an *ics file and upload it to a web server then link to it like you would any other file on the internet. You can use the same method
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Changing the End Date on Recurring Appointments
Recurring appointments generate a lot of complaints from users. When you attempt to change the end date, you'll receive a warning that the exceptions will be lost: I have a reoccurring appointment that was created with “No end date” years ago. There have been many times when meetings got moved around due to vacations or
Continue reading: Changing the End Date on Recurring AppointmentsForce users to respond to respond to meeting requests?
I received a question from a user who wanted to force people to respond to meeting requests: "Is there a way to force people to send an accept message, when the appointment goes into their calendar? If I add an event (accept) or meeting from an invite won't the sender be notified that particular person
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Response to this meeting request will not be tallied…
When you create a meeting request in a secondary calendar, you'll get a message that responses to the meeting request won't tally because the meeting is not in your default calendar: This meeting is not in the Calendar folder for this account. Responses to this meeting will not be tallied. Do you want to send
Continue reading: Response to this meeting request will not be tallied…Schedule meetings only during working hours
I'm getting meeting requests outside of my working hours. Is it possible to set Outlook 2010 to automatically decline meeting requests that are outside of these hours? Or at least notify the person sending the meeting request? You can't control it within outlook - if its a problem, create appointments for non-working time and mark
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