Shift multiple Appointments to a different time

Change Start Time buttonThere can be various reasons why you might need to move multiple appointments or meetings at once while wanting to maintain their mutual offset such as:

  • Swapping your regular free/work day, illness, Holiday or another change of schedule
  • A sync with a mobile device or published calendar website gone wrong
  • Change of time zone and you want to move back some items to their original time rather than be recalculated based on the new time zone (your morning run, or medicine time)
  • DST madness or when the Time Zone Data Update Tool (32-bit, 64-bit) fails.

While it is easy enough to move around just a few appointments in one go, moving around a larger set is quite cumbersome. To cope with that, you can quickly move them all with the same offset with the VBA macro from this guide.

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Outlook 2007 Hotfix for March 2012

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Hotfix KB2597964 for Outlook 2007
This hotfix contains 8 fixes for specific issues. Most notable fixes are;

  • Assume that you create a meeting request in Outlook 2007, you add an external recipient in the “To” field, and then you switch to the Schedule Assistant. In this situation, Outlook 2007 stops responding.
  • Outlook 2007 stops responding when you download a large email message from an IMAP server, when you switch between folders, and when you switch between email messages that are marked as read in the Inbox folder.
  • You cannot open a hyperlink in an email message when the hyperlink address contains “file://” and the number sign (#) in Outlook 2007.

View: Full list of fixes and download information for KB2597964

Obtaining the hotfix
This is a Hotfix and not a regular update. You can request it via the KB article page.


Outlook 2010 Hotfix for February 2012

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Hotfix KB2597137 for Outlook 2010
This hotfix contains 20 fixes for specific issues. Most notable fixes are;

  • After you create a folder for a shared mailbox in Outlook 2010, the folder is not displayed until Outlook 2010 is restarted.
  • When you use an email account that contains a period (.) in the alias, and you have the “Always prompt for logon credentials” option enabled in Outlook 2010, the Windows Security dialog box does not display the domain information.
  • An email message body contains text that is added from previously opened email messages when you access a mailbox by using an IMAP4 client in Outlook 2010

View: Full list of fixes and download information for KB2597137

Obtaining the hotfix
This is a Hotfix and not a regular update. You can request it via the KB article page.


Locking your Views against accidental changes

Custom Views can greatly improve your productivity as your emails, contacts or calendar folders are then presented exactly the way you want it. An often heard request is to be able to prevent changes being made to it later on or to be able to reset it back to the way you had it configured.

The usual workaround for this is to create a copy of your custom view so you’ll always be able to simply delete your modified version and create a fresh new copy.

A better approach would be to actually being able to lock your views. And even though this isn’t possible in Outlook itself, it is possible to lock down your views via a VBA macro.

The code sample provided in this guide gives you an easy to use interface to quickly lock or unlock your views.

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