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.

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.

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.

How to add national holidays to your Outlook calendar

I can never remember when the UK national holidays are, never mind the US vacations. Fortunately, there’s a way to get Outlook to add national holidays to your standard Outlook calendar.

New QW patch coming soon for IE on Windows 8.1

Microsoft have released a patch for Windows 8.1 that subtly changes the IE behavior in a way that stops Qlockwork recording IE activity. The problem doesn’t seem to reproduce on Windows 7 (though we’re currently playing around with Windows 7 to…