Changing Journal Entries

You can modify any details of a journal entry—for example, adding more notes to yourself, adding a contact’s names or categories, or changing the duration of your activity. You can also move the entry to a different position on the journal timeline if you entered the wrong start date or time when you began recording the activity.

Note

For information about timeline views in the Journal folder, see "Viewing the Journal" later in this chapter.

Modifying an Entry

Suppose that in the middle of your department budget meeting, you realize that you didn’t stop the journal timer when you stopped working on a spreadsheet to come to the meeting. You know that you worked on the spreadsheet for about three hours, however, so you can change the journal entry to reflect your actual work time.

To change the duration or any other property of an existing journal entry, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Journal folder, and double-click the entry to open it.

  2. Select the information you want to change, and then enter the correct data. For example, to change an incorrect record of how long you spent on an activity, click in the Duration box, change the value, and press Enter.

  3. Make other changes as needed in the journal entry form.

  4. Click Save & Close.

Moving an Entry on the Timeline

Suppose that you belatedly created a journal entry for a phone call you made yesterday and inadvertently entered the wrong date. When you later notice that the journal entry is in the wrong spot on the timeline, you can move the entry to the correct date.

Follow these steps to do so:

  1. Open the Journal folder, and double-click the entry to open it.

  2. In the Start Time box, type or select a date.

  3. Click Save & Close. Outlook 2007 then moves the entry to the correct spot on the timeline.

Deleting an Entry

Deleting a single entry from your journal timeline is easy: Either click the entry’s icon to select it and then press Delete, or right-click the entry’s icon and choose Delete on the shortcut menu.

What if you’ve been automatically recording your work in Excel 2007 workbooks but have also been experimenting with Excel 2007, creating several test workbooks that you don’t want to save or track? Now you have numerous useless entries cluttering up your Journal folder. You can delete them one at a time, but it’s faster to switch to a table view of your entries, sort them so that all the useless entries are in one group, and delete them all at once.

Note

For information about the various views in the Journal folder, including table views and timeline views, see "Viewing the Journal" later in this chapter.

Follow these steps to delete a group of entries:

  1. In the Navigation Pane, under Current View, select Entry List. The view switches to a table view of all your journal entries.

  2. To sort the entries so that all the ones you want to delete appear together, click the Entry Type column header. To sort specific entries by subject within a group of entry types, hold down the Shift key while you click the Subject column header.

    Note

    You can sort by as many as four categories using this method of holding down the Shift key while you click column headers. Clicking the Contact or Categories header will group the journal items by that category and clear the other sort settings. Once the list is grouped, you can sort on multiple categories as described earlier.

  3. To select and delete multiple journal entries, press Shift or Ctrl while you select the entries you want to delete, and then click the Delete button on the toolbar. (Alternatively, you can press the Delete key to delete selected entries or right-click any of the selected entries and choose Delete on the shortcut menu.)

  4. When you finish deleting the journal entries that you don’t want, you can select the view you were using previously on the Current View list in the Navigation Pane.

Note

It’s easy to turn on Group By This Field inadvertently when working with the Entry List view but not quite so easy to turn it off. To turn off this option, choose View, Arrange By, and then deselect Show In Groups.

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