How can I add a button to the Microsoft Outlook toolbar to open a particular Web page?
Office XP and Office 2000 toolbar buttons, including those in Outlook, are more versatile than you might expect. You can use them to launch Web pages or files by following these steps:
- Choose View, Toolbars, Customize.
- Drag any command from Commands to the toolbar.
- Right-click the button you dragged and choose Assign Hyperlink from the context menu.
- Type the Web page you want to go to, then click OK.
- Right-click the button again, then change the rest of the properties (e.g., Name, Button Image) to suit you.
- Close the Customize dialog box.
Clicking the button will open the Web page in your browser, not in Outlook.
In Outlook 2002, you can drag a Web page that you opened in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) to the Outlook Bar (not the program toolbar). Then, you can create a new link that opens in Outlook itself, not in the browser.
Can I add a short comment to any email item and show that comment in a view? I don't want to change the subject.
Outlook's message flag feature is ideal for this task. In the folder view, you can right-click a message, choose Flag for Follow Up, then type text into the Flag to box in the Flag for Follow Up dialog box. You don't have to use one of the built-in choices, and you don't have to add a date. You can also flag an open message by clicking the Follow Up button on the toolbar.
After you've flagged some messages, you'll want to see the flags in your view. To modify the current view, right-click the column headings, then choose Field Chooser. Drag the Follow Up Flag to the column headings, and place it wherever you like in the column headings.
Can I change the Entry Type list on the journal form?
In most cases, you can't change the built-in drop-down lists on Outlook forms. The Entry Type list on the journal form is one exception. The list derives its values from the Windows registry rather than from hard-coded entries in Outlook. The Microsoft article "OL97: How to Create New Entry Type in the Journal" (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q180/1/39.asp) explains how to add a new journal type to the registry. The technique works for all versions of Outlook, even though the article is for Outlook 97.
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