Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Breakfast: a banana on the run. Student computing committee meeting. When dragging and dropping messages from one folder to another in Outlook 2003, the following error message appears: "Microsoft Office Outlook: Creating a new item from the selected items could take some time. Are you sure you want to create a new item from these 6 items? (Yes) (No)" When encountering this dialog, you probably want to say No. Saying Yes will create a new mail message with each of the selected items appearing in the body of the message—probably not what you want. You just want to move the items into a different folder. Solution: Choose No. In the list of messages you're moving, sort by item type (icon). Select all the items you want to move making sure to select only mail items and not calendar or contact or other items. For some reason, Outlook 2003 will give you that unexpected behavior if you have a calendar or contact item in the group. This is not easy to figure out—I found this answer in a forum thread on windowsitpro.com dated Mon Apr 12, 2004, 10:09 PM. Thanks, JoeHeadford! Updated current students news and calendar. Took care of a couple of minor listserv and mail fowarding student problems. Linkchecking. Lunch with Joel: L'Avenida. Dinner at home by myself: steamed veggie dumplings. Patrick returned from New Orleans while my dumplings were cooking, so I put on a few more for him while he showered. Early to bed—very tired tonight!