Enter Spouse and Children's Birthday's in Outlook

When you enter a contact, you can enter that person's birthday and it will show up in the calendar. What about that person's spouse and their kids - where do they get entered?

Not in the Contact form. :) You could create a contact for each person - but that's confusing and a waste of a contact you'll never use. Instead, just create the calendar events for the spouse and kids and associate the contact (bottom of the calendar form) with the events. You'll know who they belong to and the calendar events will be on the Contact's activity tab.

Note: you can enter the spouse's and children's names on the Contact form. Look on the All Fields tab and select Name fields from the dropdown. Type the spouse and children's names in the appropriate fields.

Storing Customer Birthdays in Entourage

It's nice to remember your customers on special days like birthdays. You can store a customer's birthday in a contact, and then add that birthday to the Calendar so that Entourage reminds you in plenty of time to send birthday greetings.

Add a customer's birthday to a contact

Click Address Book

Double-click the contact for the customer whose birthday you want to add.

Click the Personal tab.

In the Birthday box, type the date of the customer's birthday.

To add the birthday to the Calendar, click the Date Actions button next to the Birthday box, and then click Add to Calendar.

Click Save.

The new Calendar event appears. It includes a preset reminder that appears yearly, five days before the customer's birthday.

OS X - Dropping Text on the Dock

Let’s say you’re reading an article online, and you read a sentence that you want to email to a friend. Don’t do the copy-and-paste thing.

Instead, just highlight the text and drag-and-drop it right on the Mail icon in the Dock. It will open Mail and put that sentence into a new mail message. This tip also works in other Cocoa applications like TextEdit, Stickies, and Safari.