General Articles
Creating an Excel Named Range & avoiding Outlook import problems
The most common problems people encounter when importing data using an Excel file involve a missing <Named Range> or an incorrectly defined <Named Range> resulting in either too few or too many rows being imported into Excel. This video shows how to create an Excel <Named Range> and how to avoid common pitfalls related to […]
How to Avoid Problems with Outlook Contact Names
When creating a new Outlook contact, many people simply enter the contact’s name in the contact’s <FullName> field instead of entering the values into the individual fields that comprise the <FullName> field. In doing that, Outlook has to parse the value entered and <TRY> to determine what the actual values should be for the various […]
Outlook Custom forms – Things to avoid
Some very basic things that should be avoided when designing/publishing custom contact forms are as follows: 1. The same custom form should not be published to multiple form libraries. Doing so can cause <forms cache> corruption. There is no way to guarantee that the forms published using the same form name are actually identical forms […]
Outlook Troubleshooting Best Practices
It is inevitable that at some point in time, you will be faced with an unexpected error message that you are not familiar with and/or which could at best be described as “cryptic” and you need assistance finding an answer to the problem. Using Search Engines There is a very high probablity that you will […]
