Things You Didn't Know About Outlook |
- If you don’t like clicking on the little navigation buttons every time you want to switch between the Inbox and the Calendar, just right-click on the navigation button and choose “Open in a New Window”. You can have your contacts, calendar and inbox in their own windows and alternate between each using Alt-Tab or using your Task Bar. GREAT IDEA!
- Add other holidays to your Outlook calendar: Perhaps your company observes holidays based on a head office in another country. To add these to your calendar, go to Tools, Op-tions and on the Preferences tab, click Calendar Options, Add Holidays and check the ones you want.
- Quickly add a person to your Contacts directly from their e-mail message. Open the mes-sage and right-click on their name, choose Add to Outlook Contacts from the list. If they are already in your Contacts you will be notified and have choices as to what to do.
- Use plain old English to set appointments. This one is cool and I did not know about it...When you want to book an appointment in your calendar, for Start Time or End Time you can type in things like “next Tue” or “next month” and Outlook totally understands you. If you enter “now” it will fill in the current time for you. This also works in the Scheduling window so in Appointment Recurrence next Thursday for start time is fine.
- Customize the default flag or category icons (Outlook 2007): Right click on any flag or category icon and choose “Set Quick Click” and select what you want to use as the default.
Have your Inkjet print pages in the right order!
In Word 2003, if you go to Tools, Options and on the Print tab check the box that says “reverse print order”, your pages will be printed from the last to the first so when you pick them up, they are in order. For Word 2007, from the Office button, Word Options, choose Advanced and scroll down to Print options to find the “reverser print order” button.
Alternatively, if you don’t want to change these, just tell your printer to print from page 8 to 1 and it will come out properly…
Excel Tip A quick keyboard shortcut that enables you to select a range of cells: The cells cannot be blank but must contain something (text, numbers, symbols). If the range of cells are running down a column, click to select the top cell and then hold down Ctrl plus the Shift button and press the â arrow key on your keyboard. All the cells containing data will be selected and it stops as soon as it hits an empty cell. This is great for selecting things which run onto several screens. If you want to do this for a group of cells running across a row, follow the same procedure but use the à arrow key. I use this one almost daily. I never recommend you select an entire row or column if you want to use fill colour or borders so this is a way to just select the cells you want to affect.
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