Figuring out what you've done and who you did it to in Outlook

So here I am at last. My very own Technet blog. Crumbs, what a responsibility.

My regular reader (thanks dad) will know that this is my new blog landing site. After exactly 444 thoroughly enjoyable days residing on TheSpoke, my chum Eileen Brown has finally managed to convince me to relocate to a different part of cyber town. The view from here looks kind of familiar but this Technet interface gives me even more buttons to play with. I wonder what that one does...

I've recently recorded a bunch of short blogcasts [Email], [Calendar 1], [Calendar 2], [Tasks 1], [Tasks 2] on Productivity Tips for Microsoft Outlook. That's my passion. Helping people get the most of out their technology. This will be the new home for those tips and tricks.

Let's start with a really easy but greatly under-utilised one:

Microsoft Outlook does a great job of linking pieces of information. Next time you're wondering when you next have a meeting appointment with a contact, just open that contact, click the Activities tab and change the Show drop down box to Upcoming Tasks/Appointments. In just a few seconds Outlook will report back all future Task and Appointment items which involve that contact. Check out the other options in the Show drop down box too. This is a great feature for tracking what you've done or are planning to do with a contact.

So now there's no excuse for those embarrassing phone calls that start "Hey, I haven't seen you since, er, when was it, ooh a long time ago..."

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  More on the tasty topic of toast...
  My advice is to switch off desktop alerts ('toasts') for all but...

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  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Windows Desktop Search has made finding emails and documents much simpler but Outlook still...

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  More on the tasty topic of toast...
  My advice is to switch off desktop alerts ('toasts') for all but...

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  I was forcibly reminded yesterday that many aspects of software that we consider intuitive and automatic are actually cultural, and have nothing whatever to do with GUI design.

• Anonymous
  April 27, 2005
  I have done something that has "locked" me out of being able to modify or schedule appointments in my outlook calendar. I try scheduling a "new" appointment but nothing happens.
  
  Any suggestions?
  
  Kevin

• Anonymous
  April 27, 2005
  Something weird started happening with a machine running Windows98 and outlook 2000. We stopped being a able to open e-mails that were 'forwarded' to us... these forwarded e-mails cause outlook to lock up. All other e-mails come through fine.. Has this ever happened to you?