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I think that you will love this neat little shortcut that I have been using, if you don’t know about it already. Follow the instructions below to add a shortcut link on the system file menu screen for any Microsoft Office Applications. Now, I just wish Microsoft would allow me to create these handy shortcuts from any Windows and systems application.

I’ve inserted an image from one of my file menus just to the right so you can see exactly what I am talking about. As I do not save my files in the My Documents folder, it is helpful for me to have shortcuts to file locations that I use frequently on the file menu bar. Here’s how to do it so you can save time too.

1. Open the office application of your choice (Word, Excel etc.). Microsoft calls this file menu the “My Places” bar. Navigate to and select, but do not open the folder that you want to add to the menu.
2. Click Tools and then Add to My Places. Your selected folder will now appear at the bottom of the My Places menu bar. If you don’t see it, right click on the bar and select small icons as it may be hidden for the moment or resize the dialog box so you can see your new folder.
3. To move your new folder up to the top of the menu on the My Spaces bar, right click on the item you want to move and click move up or move down as needed.

I find the addition of my most frequently used files to be very helpful and only wish that I could do this in all my computer applications. I think that once you try it, you’ll be doing custom file additions to your My Places bar too!

If this has happened to you, as it has to me, then you know that there is literally no information on the Web about how to fix this thorny and aggravating issue – mail is stuck in your out box that cannot be deleted.

It appears that when this happens that actually Outlook has sent the mail, but has forgotten to move it to the sent folder. When you try to delete the mail or move it to another folder, you get the message that “this action cannot be completed as Outlook is in the process of transmitting this message”. ARGH!

For me, this is how I fixed it. First I renamed my .pst file to Outlook-old.pst and change the Personal Folder name to Old Personal Folders. Then I closed Outlook. On reopening Outlook, the application made a new Outlook.pst file. I went into File – Data File Management, and set my new .pst file as the default. My old PST appeared in the folder tree under the file name I had previously given it of Old Personal Folders. From there I copied or dragged and dropped in the mail that I wanted to save from the old Personal Folder files. That so far is pretty straight forward, but the next step is new.

When I opened my address book and calender there were no entries. In Vista you do not have access to these files so how do you migrate your calendar and address book? This is what I did.

Go to contacts – view – current view – Outlook Data Files. Highlight all the entries, using control key + A, then while they are highlighted drag them from the window to the top left to the Contact File that represents your new Outlook.pst file. You will know which one it is as when you click it, it is empty.

Do the same with calendar, go to calendar – view – current view – Outlook Data Files. Highlight all the entries, using control key + A, then while they are highlighted drag them from the window to the top left to the Calendar File that represents your new Outlook.pst file. You will know which one it is as when you click it, it is empty.

Now you can get rid of your old Outlook.pst file. Go to File – Data File Management. Find your old .pst file and delete it. Now you have all your information, a new out box and all your contacts and calendar.