Making Everything Bigger in Windows 10

From "Fonts, sizes and color settings of the Outlook interface"

Windows 10

- Right click on an empty spot on your Desktop and choose “Display Settings”.

- In the “Scale and layout section”, use the “Change the size of text, apps, and other items” dropdown list to set your preferred zoom level.

- To set a custom zoom level, press the Custom scaling link (Windows 10 Version 1709) or the “Advanced scaling settings” link (Windows 10 Version 1803). Since Version 1803, Windows can also detect desktop apps which don’t zoom and improve their graphics output via the option: Let Windows try to fix apps so they’re not blurry.

Another way to adjust this is the Ctrl + and - in your browser. If things are too big, you can always adjust things in browsers. 

Daylight Savings, Outlook Recurring Meetings, and Arizona

I do not remember creating recurring Outlook meeting across time zones. I have colleagues that invite me to meetings that are not in my time zone. The interesting thing is that when daylight savings changes, all the meetings created by those in time zones that observe daylight savings shift one hour for me. 

It got me thinking that if I create a recurring meeting using the Arizona time zone, the meeting will shift for those that are in time zones that do observe daylight savings. 

When I went to make my meeting recurring, I saw this dialog. 

It defaulted to the Arizona time zone since that is where I am. Here are two rules:

   1) If I create a recurring meeting when daylight savings is off, I need to use the the Mountain Time (US & Canada) time zone so that the meeting will shift to a new time (relative to AZ) when daylight savings starts. 

2) If I create a recurring meeting when daylight savings is on, I need to use the the Pacific Time (US & Canada) time zone so that the meeting will shift to a new time (relative to AZ) when daylight savings stops. 

Following these rules should make it so the meeting does not shift for my work mates that are in time zones that do observe daylight savings. The rule can also be stated as: Use the time zone that matches the AZ time zone at the time you create the recurring meeting. 

I tried looking this issue up on the Internet, and did not find this strategy. I have found that this strategy does work for those sane state of Arizona who do not shift their time. 

Steps to Delete OST File from Outlook 2016 / 2013 / 2010 / 2007

Adapted from http://www.softwarepro.org/blog/delete-and-recreate-ost-file-outlook-2016-2013-2010-2007/

Deleting .ost file is quite easy if you know the location. Simply locate the Outlook folder and select .ost file and delete. But you do not know the location of OST file then follow the steps mentioned below. Remember one thing that location of .ost file different in different versions of Outlook. 

Quit Outlook (If it is Running).
Go to Run window or press windows key + r.
Type “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook\” in the Run window and click OK.
Note: – The command will automatically locate .ost file from any Outlook 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003/2000.
Select the .ost file and either right-click on it and then hit on Delete option or press Delete Key.

I used this process to get my Outlook to actually update the cache. I had disabled the cache through
File\Account Settings\
Double Click the Profile Email

After I did so, I could see my email and the shared email account, but it was not nearly as responsive.

After I deleted the .ost file, Outlook took some time to re-load the cache (about 10 minutes). But it was faster after that.

Moving an Outlook offline data file

If you are running out of space on your C drive you might try moving your Outlook offline data file to a secondary drive.

http://www.slipstick.com/exchange/moving-outlook-ost-file/

Outlook Rule for All but Exchange Server Mail

I get junk email at work from a few places every day. The in place junk filter does not seem to catch them.  I was thinking of trying SpamBayes again, then I thought that all of my junk mail comes from outside my company.  And I rarely have email from outside my company that is not junk mail.

I just created a rule in Outlook that applies to all emails that are not from my company.  It moves all email to a folder "except with /ou in the sender's address".  This site says that "/ou" will filter for internal Exchange server mail.