Calendar powertips for Outlook

re: Calendar powertips for Outlook

jjta800@hotmail.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:58:45 GMT

In outlook 07 or 10 - is there a way to create a shortcut to a public folder calendar?

My user wants the shortcut nested under the users mailbox calendar?

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Melissa Brittingham — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:33:32 GMT

Loved the Calendar tips! The CTRL+G and the second time zone is much more efficient than the way I was doing it.. Thank you for sharing!

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Software School — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:20:07 GMT

David: you should be able to type a time in almost any format into the time field. For example, if you just type "9" into the start time, it should reformat at 9:00 AM. If you're having trouble, press the Tab key to push the cursor out of the time field, so Outlook has a chance of correcting what you type. Also, if All Day Event is selected, you can't enter any time of day.

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Lynn Dye — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:39:22 GMT

Like your calendar tips! An even easier way to add another time zone is just to right-click on the times (not in the calendar), and choose 'change time zone' and then add your second time zone while in there.

After you've selected your second time zone, you can choose to 'swap time zones' and have the second time zone as your 'main' time zone. This could be helpful if you want to 'live' in the second time zone for awhile.

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Annik Stahl — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:06:59 GMT

@Software School: Interested in providing a blog post for us? We'd link back to you.... Email me at outlook-annik@live.com and we'll tawk.

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Annik Stahl — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:05:31 GMT

David: I'm not sure. I can get it to work from me (Outlook 2010 SP1), What have you tried to enter? Was it one of the examples I gave? Was it something else? Like I said, there ARE some th

ings it just doesn't *get*. Will you let me know? If you want, email me at outlook-annik@live.com and we'll troubleshoot.

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David O'Connell — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:40:41 GMT

Perhaps I am not reading your post thoroughly, but your first tip seems not to work for me, or I am missing something. I use Office 2010 Pro, and when I open the "New Appointment" dialog box and enter the event as suggested, which is much like one would do in "Remember the Milk," and hit enter, the default time, which is automatically today's date and the next time segment set in options, that is the time and date entry on the calendar. If I try to do as suggested in the date/time lines, the program demands a correctly formatted date/time entry. What am I missing?

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Annik Stahl — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:59:35 GMT

Like those! I'll bet some of the readers here didn't know about them... Thanks!

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Software School — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:47:05 GMT

Two other cool Outlook tips:

1. You can see two folders at once, like Mail and Calendar. Right-click one of them (for example, the Mail button in the lower-left corner), then select Open in New Window. Now you'll have two Outlook windows that you can place side-by-side on your screen.

2. You can turn one type of item into another, like turn an e-mail into a calendar item. Drag an e-mail message onto the Calendar button in the lower-left corner, and a new appointment item will appear, with the content of the e-mail in the main box. I use that frequently when I need to act on an e-mail on a particular day. That way, I have all the info without having to copy and paste.

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Software School — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:35:59 GMT

Annik, I used the quotation marks because there's no rich formatting here to make the text bold, and didn't want beginners to get confused. As for chops, I co-authored 12 books of tips and shortcuts for Microsoft Office and Windows (www.nerdybooks.com) that are now hopelessly out-of-date, and I authored video training courses on Excel 2010 Essential Training and New Features, both for Lynda.com.