Outlook 2016 Journal — Alternative Options

Microsoft have been trying to retire the Journal since Outlook 2007 — even then you had to manually enable Journal (with a discouraging popup). In Outlook 2016 Microsoft have finally turned it off.

How to highlight or color Outlook emails from a particular email address in your inbox

Quite a useful feature in Microsoft Outlook is the ability to make an email from a particular person appear in bold or in a specific colour or font.

Managing Time in Outlook: How to Manage Outlook Tasks More Easily

Outlook lets you set 5 different statuses on a task: “Not Started, “In Progress”, “Completed”, “Waiting on Someone Else” or “Deferred”. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to set these without having to open the task and…

Re-enabling a stubborn disabled Outlook add-in

Just to prove that sometimes developers have problems with their own applications too, I’ve just resolved a rather odd, stubborn problem with my own Qlockwork add-in for Outlook 2010 having got stuck in a disabled state.

How to Remove Blank Lines from an Excel Spreadsheet

How To Remove Duplicate Lines From An Excel Spreadsheet

How to write a VBA Macro for Excel

Today I’m going to do this for the first time in years — so it’s fundamentally from scratch. My first job is to get the developer tab in my Excel s/s

1. On the File tab, choose Options to open the Excel Options dialog box.

Common Qlockwork Questions

I was just writing this out for a prospective customer. Made sense to post it here too.

How does Qlockwork work?

-Qlockwork comes in 2 parts: an application that runs all the time (see the Qlockwork icon in the system tray) and an…

Managing Time in Outlook: How to Bulk Delete Outlook Tasks

Tasks can be very useful in Outlook, but I often want to take an action on lots of tasks at once, for example delete them or mark them as complete.