Show Multiple Time Zones on Your Outlook Calendar

Your company is in multiple locations and multiple time zones so your calendar should be too.  Don’t worry, with Outlook its easier than it sounds.  Just follow the directions below and you can make sure that when you’re sitting in Durham, North Carolina and scheduling a meeting with your colleague in California, or Beijing for that matter, that the time is convenient for all of your invitees.

1. Open Outlook and click on Calendar to show your schedule.

2. Click on Week (this is located above the calendar and just below the tool bar).  You need to be in a weekly or daily view to see multiple time zones.  Unfortunately, multiple time zones can’t be displayed in the monthly view.

3. Right click anywhere along the left border of the calendar (where the hours of the day are displayed) and select Change Time Zone.

4.  Check the box that says Show an additional time zone.  Now you will be able to select a second time zone to be displayed on your Outlook calendar.  You can also add labels like ‘HQ’, ‘Corporate’, or a city or country name.  It’s up to you.

5. Click OK to save your settings.  Now your calendar will display both time zones when you are in either weekly or daily views, as shown below.

Congratulations, you now have an international or at least inter time zone calendar.  I hope that you find this useful as you try to schedule meetings with other locations.

The Ultimate Mother’s Day Card

It’s that time of year again and if you’re like me your scrambling around to find the perfect Mother’s Day gift and card.  I can’t help with the gift part of the equation but I can help in making the ultimate Mother’s Day card.

Snapfish (www.snapfish.com) offers custom Mother’s Day cards for a whopping $1.99.  They also offer a wide array of products like key rings and coffee mugs that you can customize with your pictures as great gifts for the mom in your life. 

What makes this the ultimate Mother’s Day card is that its customized with your pictures as well as your text on both the interior and the back of the card.  Your mother or wife will get such a kick out the card that she might frame it, like my mother did, or add it to her most treasured keep sakes, like my wife did.  Of course, the pictures I used were of my children, not of me.

So hurry up and get your photos together and get your Mother’s Day card made.  And, at $1.99 a card don’t forget grandma!

Here’s my card for Grandma

Tips for creating your card

• Create a new folder on your computer and copy the digital photos you’d like to use for the card to the folder.  It’s good to have a few extra photos to see how everything looks once the card is put together.
• Use 2-day shipping & handling.  It’s currently the same price as standard shipping & handling, which is 3-5 days.
• Don’t forget to add text on both the inside and to the back of the card.  Use something like “Made just for Mommy” or “Made with love” on the back of the card.
• Snapfish has a live chat option.  If you get stuck or have a question you can get help very quickly by using chat.
• Take a look at the customizable gifts available.  You may find something that the mother in your life would love.  Then all of your Mother’s Day shopping would be complete in one stop and who doesn’t like that.