I ran into this issue yesterday. I created an image which originally came from Adobe Illustrator and ended up in Adobe Photoshop. I saved the image as a JPG and uploaded it to a Wordpress blog. When I sent the blog’s link to everyone I work with, I got a quick call from one of them stating the image didn’t appear for them.

Let the troubleshooting begin.

I quickly determined that the issue was with Internet Explorer, as the image showed up in Firefox and Chrome. So I did a Google search to see what documentation is out there.

Several places suggested it may be a permalink issue. I tried it just to make sure, but that was not the answer in this case.

Upon further searching I found the issue on the Microsoft Support page. These are all great suggestions, but still didn’t fix my problem.

So, back to the drawing board – the Photoshop drawing board. I thought maybe I should rename the file or try a different file format, that maybe Wordpress was getting confused because I had uploaded several versions of the file to get it just right.

As I was re-saving the JPG image, I realized the error of my ways. The file was in CMYK color mode. D’oh! I changed it to RGB color mode, re-saved, re-uploaded and voila! Instant fix!

It’s like magic.

What tipped me off? When you do a “save as” in CMYK color mode you have far fewer file format options to choose from than RGB color mode. I noticed my list was much shorter and then checked how the mode was set. Hopefully this will be helpful if you ever encounter this issue.

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Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007

If you’re using Microsoft Outlook 2007, you probably love it as much as I do. But as much as I love the calendar being on my computer, I’m still printing an updated calendar to hang on the wall in my office. I guess, for me, it’s easier to just glance up and look at the calendar rather than pulling it up on my computer. Old habits are hard to break.

So, if you’re printing the monthly calendar from Outlook 2007, you may have noticed that the text on the appointments doesn’t wrap around to a second line – it just cuts off the info, sometimes even cutting letters in half. Annoying. What’s even more annoying is that Microsoft is aware of this issue and instead of releasing a simple patch, add-on or update, they created an entire separate program just for printing the calendar.

Microsoft Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook is currently the only solution out there. I suppose the program does remedy the text-wrap issue, but the program comes with some issues of its own – like every Microsoft program. However, aside from the issues I’ve encountered, this program is definitely the solution for printing your calendar from Outlook 2007.

I hope this is helpful =) If you run into any issues with it, let me know and maybe I can assist you or direct you to some forums to read up on it.

Compare Outlook Calendars

One very useful tip in Outlook 2007, which I credit to Aileen, if you’re viewing multiple calendars, you can integrate all the appointments into one calendar view by clicking the arrow on the tab at the top. It will then show all the appointments from both calendars in one view. This is very helpful if you’re trying to compare multiple calendars, which is a good idea if you don’t want to double-book a conference room, for instance. See the image below.

See the arrow circled in red

To separate the calendars again, just click the arrow again.

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