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Publishing Outlook's Free/Busy Information

How to publish and use your Free/Busy information in Outlook.

Forwarding Appointments Bug (Fixed)

Outlook 2007: All attendees are included on the To line when someone forwards a meeting request. Over the last several months I've seen a lot of reports about Outlook including the original invitees in the To field when forwarding meeting requests. Symptom: The organization has a Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) 1.21 application for Microsoft Exchange  

Show only Birthdays for a Particular Month

How to create a custom view to show only birthdays (and anniversaries) on your calendar for viewing or printing.

Display a person's age in the subject of a custom form

This form shows that it is possible to display a person's current age on the calendar. Sample Age on Birthday form The idea (and basic instructions) for this method came from ghumdinger in his (her?) post in our Outlook Forums: Displaying value of task subject field as values from two custom fields A frequent request  

Display Weekday Names in a Weekly Calendar View

Microsoft Outlook uses the Windows "long" date format to control some date formatting in the Calendar and Tasks. When the date format used in Outlook is not the desired date format, you can change it in the Control Panel, Regional settings. If the screen width is too small to fit the date format, Outlook drops  

Booking meetings more than 180 days out

The question of the week this week involved resource calendars not allowing meeting requests more than 180 days out. How can I set up the resource calendar to accept my meeting request scheduled more than 180 days out? Currently, the meeting request fails with this message: Your meeting request was declined. This resource can only  

Using Outlook's Autopick Next and Suggested Times

Use Outlook's AutoPick and Suggest times to select meeting times that will work for all invitees to meetings.

The Attachment Size Exceeds the Allowable Limit Error

Users who have recurring appointments or meetings in their calendar cannot modify that meeting or event. When they attempt to open the event, they receive an error: "The attachment size exceeds the allowable limit". They may not see attachments on the event.

All Day Events Span Two Days

When your all day events span two days, it means the time zone is different from the time zone used when you created the events. If you are syncing with a PDA, verify the time zone and daylight time settings are the same (and the correct one for your location) on both computers. If the  

Autoaccept a Meeting Request using Rules

Use Outlook's Rules Wizard and a Run a Script rule to autoaccept (or decline) meeting requests in Microsoft Outlook. Includes a version that checks your Free/Busy status before accepting (or declining).

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Deleting Auto-Complete Entries No Longer Works

Sync Issues and Errors with Gmail and Yahoo accounts

Error Opening iCloud Appointments in Classic Outlook

Opt out of Microsoft 365 Companion Apps

Mail Templates in Outlook for Windows (and Web)

Urban legend: Microsoft Deletes Old Outlook.com Messages

Buttons in the New Message Notifications

Move Deleted Items to Another Folder Automatically

Open Outlook Templates using PowerShell

Count and List Folders in Classic Outlook

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Open Outlook Templates using PowerShell

Count and List Folders in Classic Outlook

Insert Word Document into Email using VBA

Warn Before Deleting a Contact

Use PowerShell to Delete Attachments

Remove RE:, FWD:, and Other Prefixes from Subject Line

Change the Mailing Address Using PowerShell

Categorize @Mentioned Messages

Send an Email When You Open Outlook

Delete Old Calendar Events using VBA

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