Introduction

No doubt, Outlook and Office 365 are most widely used email application in today’s era of technology. The features provided by both of the email clients are very beneficial and provides the unique feature to its user. However, there are some problems associated with these email provider services which act as a nightmare for the users. One such issue is Office 365 calendar permissions not working. The post deals with the measures to resolve the issue. So, let us begin.

In case, the users use shared calendars in Outlook 2016 then, they will notice that all the appointments are not listed in the calendars. Or, there are chances that they have started disappearing from the list. This will cause the data loss and as the result, the user is unable to use the calendar in Office 365 account. These type of issues occur when the user opens the Outlook 2016 in any of cached modes, either with O365 or the Exchange Server.

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Explanation of Office 365 Calendar Permissions Not Working

The features of Office 365 equips the user to access the Outlook on the web. Sharing of calendars is very easy in Office 365. For example, if an admin wants to send the schedule of the meetings to be conducted in a month, he will send the calendar to the users. The problem regarding Office 365 calendar sharing permissions occurs when the cached mode of the Exchange or Office 365 is on. This clearly implies that the data is saved in the memory of the system. This is the reason due to which it does not update very easily and it takes some time. Sometimes, after clearing the cache, this problem occurs continuously. After all this, a user has no idea if the events are added or the calendars are shared or not.

Manual Approach 1

To verify the problem, a user has to log into the Outlook webmail account and check if all appointments in the shared calendar are visible or not. If they are present there, then the main cause of the issue is cache on the Outlook. Some of the steps that can be used to resolve the issue are:

• Close all the components of Microsoft like Skype for business, Outlook etc., that are running
• The next step is to open File Explorer
• In the address bar present at the top, copy and paste the following path:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

Or you can open the path simply if the location of the Outlook is different on your system.

• Search for the Outlook file carrying the same name as the email account. Once you find the data file in Outlook, delete it and then, close the File Explorer
• Reopen your Outlook and wait until the Outlook resync.
• Deselect the option Use Cached Exchange Mode
• Open the Outlook and this will obtain the live data from Exchange server.

After executing the above steps, you will see that the Office 365 calendar sharing problems not working are resolved. In case, this approach fails, you can go with the second manual method.

Manual Approach 2

Go through the given steps to resolve Office 365 calendar permissions not working in Outlook:

• Launch Microsoft Outlook in your local machine
• In toolbar, navigate to File and then select Account settings as the option
• Double click on the desired Exchange account and switch to the Advanced tab
• Deselect the option Use cached Exchange mode
• Deselect the option Download shared folders
• At last, click on the option OK

This is another method for Office 365 calendar delegate permissions.

Time To Sum Up

The calendars of Office 365 need to be shared among different users. But, many times it happens that the list of appointments in the calendar is not visible. This occurs due to the cache memory in the Exchange and Office 365. The above manual techniques are explained to fixing the issue of Office 365 calendar permissions not working or not updating. But, there are some of the drawbacks of the manual workarounds. Hence, it is advised to export Office 365 calendar to PST file format so that you can use it in Microsoft Outlook. This can be done with the help of Office365Export PST tool. The data is exported safely and effectively.

Sample Word Doc

To test this, we need a word document in which second page is blank. You can see a word document sample below.

Now we need to follow the following steps.

Step 1

Go to view tab from the menu and click on the Draft

You can see that in the above image.

Step 2

If you do first step, your word document becomes as follows.

Now you need to paragraph menu from Home tab.

Step 3

Click on the icon from paragraph menu.

Once you click on that icon, you will get some non printing characters in your word document. Click on the last in your word document and press delete.

Now go back to your home tab and click on show/hide menu and then go to View tab and click print layout option.

That is all now, I hope your blank page is deleted now.

Kindest Regards
Sibeesh Venu

document1
document2
output
Hi all, in this article you will learn about mail merging in Word 2013. Most of you may have already worked on this, or familiar with it. This article is for those who have not yet tried this.

Background

Yesterday one of my friends asked me about mail merging in Word. To be frank, that was the first time I had heard about it. I then learned it is a feature available in Word. But I could search and help my friend about that. So I thought of sharing that info with you all.

Mail Merging in Word

The Mail Merge feature helps you to create Word documents with nearly the same contents with only a few differences. Let us say you have to send your marriage invitation Word document to 100 people. In this case, only the address will be different, right? (I know you won’t create your marriage invitation in a Word document. This is just for an example.) So here we can use the mail merge feature.

How it works

We will have two Word documents. The first document will have the address details of the recipients. And the second document will have the marriage invitation content. So what we are going to do is, just gathering the data from the first document to the second. At last we will have a separate marriage invitation for the separate address.

Let’s start

We will do the entire process step by step.

Step 1

Open a sample Word document.

Consider that we have the first document, document 1, as in the following (please see the document1.docx from the download list).

NB: The most important thing here is, I have used a comma (,) as the delimiter. To work with this feature we must give a delimiter (separator) in each of the details.

Step 2

Create invitation Word document.

Consider we have the content (document2.docx) as follows.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

From,
Your name,
Your address
To,

With joy in our hearts, we your name and your fiancée name, request the honor of your presence as we exchange marriage vows and celebrate our new life together Saturday, June 19, 2015.

The Taj Hotel

Chennai

————————————————————————————————————————–

Please note that I have not given the “to address”, this content we will gather from the document1.

Step 3

Open document2.docx and click on start Mail Merge under the mailing tab.

Click on the step-by-step Mail Merge wizard. Now you can see a dock panel on the right side of your Word document as follows.

Step 4

Click on Next.

Step 5

After doing the preceding, you will get a screen as follows:

Please note that all the details are loaded correctly.

Now click OK.

Now you are able to write your letter. Click on write your letter as in the following image.

Step 6

Step 7

Step 8

Click on the edit individual letter. And click OK for the next pop up.

Now you can see the invitations separately for each of the names and addresses you have given in the document1.

That’s all.

Output

Please download output.docx to see the output.

Conclusion

I hope you liked this article. Now please share your thoughts and suggestions. It matters a lot.

Kindest Regards,

Sibeesh Venu
www.sibeeshpassion.com

Today I came across the requirement to determine the consolidated data in Excel. I was just calculating my monthly expenses for the past few months. So I thought of sharing how to consolidate the data in Excel, so that it will be more readable.

How

Let us say I have the data as follows.

You can see that some of the categories are repeating in that list. So we need to consolidate the items, right? So that I can get an overview of how much money I have spent in each category, so let us do that.

Step 1

Create the headers.

Step 2

Click on the adjacent cell below “Consolidated Category”, so that you can consolidate the data there.

Step 3

Go to Data and click on the tab Consolidate.

The moment you clicked, a pop-up will open as follows.

Step 4

Now click on the reference icon just near to the Browse button.

Once you click on the reference, please select the data that is not consolidated as follows.

Please note that a reference formula has been added to the reference box.

Step 5

Now click on the reference icon again as follows.

Step 6

Please click on the Add button so that your formula can be used the next time also. Once you have clicked on that, you can see that your formula has been added to all the references.

Step 7

Now an important part is, since our data is based on the category and the category is left column in the selection, you need to check the Left column.

Once you are done, please click OK.

Output

Now you will get output as follows.

Cool! You have done it.

Conclusion

Please provide your valuable suggestions and comments. Thanks in advance.

Kindest Regards,

Sibeesh Venu