Understanding Outlook
Birthday / Anniversary calendar entries via Outlook UI
The following describes the process followed adding Birthday/Calendar events to the Outlook calendar via the Outlook user interface. The calendar to which these get added may not be the one you are expecting – see “ The process followed when Birthday/Anniversary values are imported is described in “Birthday, Anniversary Calendar entries via importing” Adding an […]
Understanding CSV file structure for Outlook
The acronym for CSV is “Comma Separated Values” representing a text file containing multiple fields in a single record/row where each field is separated by a comma. The other major element that is important to understand is the <field qualifier> character which is used to surround the value of a given field when the field […]
Understanding Outlook user-defined fields (part 3)
Part 3 in this series focuses on how to have a user-defined field appear the way you want using any characters while still keeping the actual user-defined field names as simple and clean as possible (per Part 1) The natural tendency is to create (name) the user-defined field the way you want to see it […]
Understanding Outlook User-Defined fields (part 2)
Part 1 focused on what characters should be used to create any Outlook user-defined field (in fact, a good rule to apply creating any field in any database program). Part 2 focuses on “why the field name you select may matter” when data is shared between Outlook and another program. This will only deal with […]
Understanding Excel rows – “Clear Contents” vs “Delete”
This article no longer applies to those using Outlook ‘2013 since the Excel file format is no longer supported. However, the information related to “deleted” versus “cleared” rows applies to many other scenarios outside of Outlook which may result in people getting unexpected results. How many times of you seen someone ask (or have even asked yourself) […]
