The following was asked as a responds to the previous tip about customizing the Contact Activities view;
I’m a quite frequent user of the Activities section for contacts and I was hoping that I could speed it up a bit by applying a filter to the view as currently come in just way to slow to remain useful. Sadly, the “Filter…” option is disabled.
Why is Contact Activities so slow and is there any way to speed it up?
I’m working in a large organization with an Exchange account and I recently noticed that everyone within the company can see my free/busy information.
I can understand this importance for a small company or a single department but to everyone else in a large company, I find that my availability is none of their business.
Is there anyway I can hide my availability completely or make it available to just the people I work with?
I a previous tip, you mentioned how to Remove Outlook search results from Start Menu.
For me, searching for Outlook items in the Start Screen doesn't seem to work at all. I’ve looked for the NoSearchCommInStartMenu Registry value but it doesn’t exist so I guess that means that it should work, doesn’t it?
Is there something else I can do to enable it again?
I've got several licenses for Office and Outlook but I'm not sure which one which ones I've used and which ones are free.
How can I find out which license I've used for which computer and how can I change the key if needed?
Instant Search only works on the folder that I'm currently in or on the entire mailbox. I know I'm in the right project folder but it has too many subfolders to do my search on.
Is there some way to make it possible to search the subfolders for the folder that I'm in as well?
I’m trying to print my Calendar but also want to include the (short) notes that are written in the message section of the Appointments and Meetings itself.
When printing the Calendar, there is a Notes field but it remains blank.
How can I print my Calendar with the notes that I’ve written for the Appointments and Meetings?
Some emails I receive are having tags in the subject field formatted such as "<tag>", "!tag" and "Ref id #12345".
Instant Search does not seem to look at these characters when doing a serch query which skews the search results.
How can I search for strings with special characters using Instant Search?
I’m using Google Chrome as my default browser but after installing the latest update of Chrome, I find several features within Outlook Web App (OWA) to be no longer functioning.
Some of these features are:
Is there any way to fix this?
I sometimes see announcements about new features being added or fixes being made to Office 2016. However, I don’t seem to get them.
When I compared my build number of Outlook 2016 to the one of a friend, I saw that his was newer. I chose File-> Update Options-> Update Now and I got the message “You’re up to date!”
How can I force Outlook to install the latest updates?
When searching in my own mailbox, I directly get my search results when typing. However, when I do a search in a Public Folder, this is not the case and I have to press ENTER to actually start the search.
In addition, several search commands do not seem to work and are grayed out.
How can I make Instant Search for Public Folder behave the same as for my mailbox?
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