The Task module of Outlook isn’t one of the prettiest or most modern parts of Outlook and probably also one of the lesser used modules by most.
Creating and managing tasks in Outlook can sometimes be a task of its own and there isn’t really a way to manage your Tasks when using a smartphone or tablet. Until now…
Have you already used the Microsoft To Do app?
I would like to create a rule that will allow me to filter all of the meeting receipts where people have typed in a message to me.
This is to prevent me from reviewing the meeting receipts that don't have any verbiage contained in the body.
I see where I can look for specific words, but don't know how to examine for the presence of text.
How can I filter out these empty responses?
When looking at the received dates of the messages in the Message List, I see the first messages have a day and date specified. When I scroll further down my list of messages, only a date is shown.
How can I set Outlook to always display the name of the day that the message was received on in the Message List?
I organize and attend quite a few meetings with somewhat larger groups and I therefor receive a lot of "Calendar messages" like meeting requests, accept, decline, canceled messages, new time proposals, etc…
I tend to ignore these during the day to get some work done and because Outlook processes most of them automatically anyway.
However, at set times, I still want to go through these messages, especially to process the feedback that some people gave in their reply and to process the new time proposals.
Is there any way I can quickly filter or otherwise search my mailbox so I will only see all these "Calendar messages"?
Often times, I receive invitations for recurring meetings that have no end date set so they will go on forever in my Calendar. It’s actually not that surprising considering that “No end date” is the default selection.
I really would like the organizer to put more thought into this. Sometimes the original organizer has even left the company and we still have these recurring meetings left in our Calendars.
As this is such a problem for us, I actually have multiple related questions about this;
I’m trying to sort my Contacts a bit more effectively but I’m a bit at a loss to determine what the best approach is.
There seem to be various options such as creating additional Contacts (sub) folders, creating Contact Groups and using Categories.
Which approach is the best or which one would you recommend?
Over the years, I've created many archive files (I used to archive by month and then later by year as space became less of an issue).
I still use them as a reference sometimes and I'd like to combine them into one big archive as it is easier to manage and simplifies searching as well.
How can I merge them together?
I’ve been granted Delegate permissions for the mailbox of my manager and want to send out a Mail Merge in his name.
I’ve done a test but it seems that I can only do a Mail Merge out of my own name.
How can I do a Mail Merge for my manager as his Delegate?
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?
I’m quite a fervent user of templates such as Quick Parts and AutoText, however, I have a feeling that something is missing.
I seem to recall that when I for instance typed my name “Jane Doe”, after typing Jane I just hit the ENTER key and it automatically typed out Doe for me. The same with my address, I just typed the number of my street and it automatically completed it.
Did I somehow turn off this feature? How do I get it back?
