Outlook Journal Issues

This section deals with issues involving the Journal.

Note that the Journal and Activities features are depreciated in Outlook 2010. Due to changes relating to the depreciation, the Contact Activities do not include Journal items.

Journal Index:

Adding More Journal Entry Types
The Journal comes with a limited number of entry types but you can easily add more by editing your registry. As always, you should backup your registry before editing…
Link a Journal Entry for a Word or Excel Document to a Contact
Outlook tracks Office documents automatically (if you set up the Journal options that way), but does not associate documents with particular contacts. Try creating a journal entry for the…
To Log a Phone Call to a Contact
Let’s say you have a person named Bob as a contact. In Contacts, select Bob and drag that contact record to the Journal icon on the Outlook Bar. A…
Creating a Public Journal for Outlook
A major shortcoming in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server is the lack of an obvious method for creating publicly accessible journal entries for contact records kept in a public folder. On this page, you’ll find an explanation of the problem and some possible approaches developed by the Exchange/Outlook community.

Last reviewed on Jan 27, 2012