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There's a simple solution for all versions of Microsoft Outlook, thanks to Richard S. Champlin: Add two categories -- Personal and Business work fine -- and apply one or the other to each of your appointments. Create two filters for the Calendar folder, one to show only the Personal category, the other displaying only the  

Microsoft Outlook really seems bad at handling time zone changes, in part because Outlook uses UTC time for appointments and adjusts the time using the time zone offset configured on the computer. We show you how to avoid problems and introduce workarounds, as well as show you how to update appointments if you move to a new time zone.

The problem: when you have multiple calendars selected in Outlook and close (uncheck) the first calendar, the calendar's name remains in the title bar and taskbar. Any custom views for the original calendar will remain in the Current view picker. This is a known issue. It's not so much a bug but a limitation of  

This frequent request comes from users looking for a way to send out meeting requests for training sessions or benefits meetings with HR, where each employee can pick the session that fits their schedule.

How to publish a weekly or monthly calendar to an Internet or Intranet web server as a web page. While you need Exchange Server to share calendars with coworkers, even if you don't have Microsoft Exchange Server, you can take a snapshot of a calendar and turn it into an HTML file.

How to avoid sending an extra meeting request when creating meeting in someone's calendar.

Recurring appointments are a problem for many users: you can't end a series without losing exceptions and no one can cancel meetings created by users who no longer have a mailbox. For this reason, we always recommend using a recurrence period of no more than a year.

We've had a lot of people complaining that a range of old appointments are missing from the calendar. For example, in November they notice appointments from July and earlier are still in the calendar but appointments in August and September are missing. When all old appointments go missing AutoArchive is the most likely culprit, but  

We're seeing complaints that Outlook automatically sends meeting updates to the attendees several times a day. When users delete the responses from their inbox it triggers another update to attendees. The good news: it’s not user error. The bad news: it appears to be a problem only for people who sync iPhones with Exchange. The  

Outlook includes a list of holidays you can add to your calendar. We have links to updated (including an updated list with holidays beyond 2012) and corrected holidays for all versions of Outlook, along with instructions to make your own company holiday lists.