I'm writing down my mileage for my Tasks and Calendar appointments and meetings.

Is there a way that Outlook can automatically calculate my mileage for the last month or for a certain client?

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I got inspired by your last tip about displaying the days left before a task needs completion and tried to tweak it to create a countdown to a contact’s next birthday and also to create a column which displays the current age of that contact.

However, I can’t seem to come up with the correct formula.

Is it possible to create these columns for my contact list and if so, could you post the correct formula to use?

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I've enabled my Automatic Replies (Out of Office) and have sent myself a message from my private account to see how it would arrive. Sadly, I never received this automatic reply.

Why isn't it working and how can I make it work reliably?

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I'm having several messages in my Outbox waiting to get sent out.

I noticed that some of these messages have a date and are written in italics. Other messages have no date and are in Roman. Upon sending and receiving, the ones in italics get sent but the ones in Roman hang in the Outbox.

What is the difference and how can I fix this without needing to recreate the messages?

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I received an email which had some text highlighted in yellow (like you can do with a magic marker on paper).

How can I do the same in Outlook?

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I have created a signature for one of my e-mail accounts but when I create a new message and select that account the signature does not show.

If I set the account with the signature as the default account and then create a new message it shows, but I do not want to do this every time I wish to send a message via that account.

How can I make Outlook to select my signature automatically when changing my account?

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I've been using Microsoft Office for a very long time. I remember that when I used to do a lot of copy/paste actions, I had an Office Clipboard pane on the left which allowed me to easily select from recent copied template texts.

Does this Office Clipboard feature still exist in the newer Outlook versions?

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I was just sent an invite to a recurring meeting. I want to propose a new time, but only Accept, Tentative, Decline and another button shows to respond.

I then added the Propose New Time icon to the Quick Access Toolbar, but it is greyed out.

Why can't I propose a new time?

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I really like the ability to instantly reply with a message template via Quick Steps.

This works for most of my replies but for one type of reply I need to have rich text formatting support with additional font settings, an image and also a table.

I’ve tried copy/pasting the content from the source document and even put in HTML codes within the Text area of the Quick Step but it seems that this field is Plain Text only.

Is there any way to make this work with a Quick Step or another quick alternative?

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I use Outlook and Word 2003. In Outlook, I have always used Word as the email editor. Over the last few days I have been receiving the following message:

"MS Word cannot be used as the email editor because Word is unavailable, not installed or not the same version as Outlook. The Outlook email editor will be used instead."

How can I set Word as my email editor again?

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