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Loungers, please be polite. Less proficient Loungers may not understand a terse reply without context and directions for use. If you get a reply you don’t understand, experiment with it and ask for clarification. Criticism and sarcasm don’t help.

If the date cells use Excel’s serial date number system (where 1/1/1900 is day 1) references to those cells must be formatted using using TEXT(A1,”DDDD M, YYYY”) or a similar format, as Steve explains in [post=791588]post 791588[/post]; without that formatting CONCATENATE will return (display) the serial dates as general numbers in the form “Died 26469 /Buried 26471”. Check out the TEXT function in the Help if you aren’t familiar with it.

See if this helps: Tools | Email accounts | Directory – View or change | select the appropriate Contact Address Book, click Change | in the “Show names by” dialog click the appropriate radio button | Finish.

If you are on Exchange server, see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/automatically-reply-to-messages-with-the-out-of-office-assistant-HP001232830.aspx

If you are on some other server you’ll have to see if your mail service provider has such an option. For example in Gmail http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/Set_Up_an_Out_of_Office_Vacation_Auto_Response_in_Gmail.htm

Re 1, assuming you can manage permissions the Public Folder Contacts, restrict entries to the folder to your selected users you want entering data to this Contact Folder, and then create a menu item that calls this simple code and ask them to use it:

Code:

If Inspectors.Count Then ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.ShowCategoriesDialog

However, you can’t prevent them from creating other Categories using the conventional method of adding categories to Contacts unless you customize the Form so the field is maintained but not displayed.

2 is not simple, see http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.asp

Try the PST Ghostbuster that [member=JoeP] mentions in [post=872883]this post[/post].

You could look at PSTWalker which I have not used and do not vouch for (Edit: I see Joe’s search result includes it). I vaguely recall that Thunderbird can read and import a PST. You may also find some PST reading solutions on MAPILAB[/url].

I don’t have 2010, but in earlier versions there was no native way to see the folder tree for the current item. In the Outlook VBE Immediates window you can use:

?ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.Parent.FolderPath

You can MsgeBox and attach this simple macro to an icon through View for this if you need it frequently.

Nice find, the PST Ghostbuster addresses a frequent Lounger problem.

Have you uninstalled KB2412171? It’s the most likely reason for your problem.

I was mulling this over after I answered, and there may be a way, but it’s complicated – for you. Without creating it myself to test, which means you have to pay attention to the steps and the dialogs presented, you could try this:

1. Create a recurring meeting where the first instance is when you want and the rest of the meetings about when you want (monthly, weekly, what ever.
2. Save the meeting series WITHOUT SENDING the invitation – click Save instead of Send. Outlook will raise dialogs questing the fact you have not sent the invitations, but proceed on regardless.
3. Find the later instances of the meeting and change the dates and times to what you want. (If this breaks the recurrence relationship, this idea won’t work.)
4. Reopen the meeting series and now SEND the invitations.

Outlook doesn’t provide a recurring option that can be fed a list of dates with no apparent date recurrence sequence. Your best option is to create the first meeting, make a copy of it, and then paste the copy to the additional days you want to set the meeting and edit as necessary.

In Outlook right-click in the message text and select “View Source” (not sure if that works with Word as editor in Outlook 2003).

It’s an HMTL artifact – HTML treats Enter as a paragraph break and displays it as a two line break; conversions of HTML to plain text will also convert it to two CRLFs. For a single line break, HTML use Shift-Enter instead of Enter.

I have no idea if a Mac environment will solve this problem; but I wouldn’t expect it to.

Inline attachments in body text are only possible with RTF (rich text format) messages. RTF works fine within Exchange, but is not always recognized by and therefore causes problems with non-Exchange internet email servers. For discussion of the problem and the settings you want, see this Slipstick page: http://www.slipstick.com/problems/alwaysrtf.asp

Outlook 2010 does not appear to have added any direct accelerator keys, and it still doesn’t have an Application.OnKey Method, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692174.aspx#OfficeOutlook2010ObjectModelChanges. However (from that same page) it has opened up the UI more, including menu extension, so he may be able to do something: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692172.aspx At this time I don’t have 2010, perhaps another Lounger who has toyed with Outlook 2010’s UI can assist with code.