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• Delay that email! How Outlook 2010 can save your hide

  3 Jun 2011

  Today's topic is about how Outlook can save you from your own impetuous, fiery, trigger-happy self: I'm going to tell you how to delay a single message (akin to counting to 10 before speaking) or ALL your messages. To me, this is an invaluable feature; an escape of sorts. For although I've mellowed with...
• Read receipts and the people who need them

  20 May 2011

  When you put all that work into writing the perfect email message, it's nice to know that someone has received and read it. Outlook has a feature that can help with that, but it's a two-way street: Your recipient has to be willing to cross it with you. I like to think of it this way: When you order a...
• Office for Mac 2011: Now we're synced up

  9 May 2011

  Now that Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been released and is in your hot little hands, let's go over what it is, why we did what we did, and how it impacts you and your work. Sync support First the biggest thing (well, I think anyway): Calendar sync support. Now you can sync Outlook—calendar...
• Outlook delegate access helps shoulder a principal's burden

  2 May 2011

  The issue of getting elementary schools—public or otherwise—on board with electronic communication has taken some time. It takes a strong leader, possibly in the form of a principal, to guide that effort. When you're a busy school principal or administrator, your administrative assistants...
• Delegation: Get your life back (Part II)

  16 Mar 2011

  Monday's post made the point that you're the one doing all the work all the time, and it's time to step back and let go a bit. Handing off some work isn't a sign of weakness; it says that you trust others (and, okay, need to get rid of the bags under your eyes). Share the information...and thereby the...
• Delegation: Get your life back (Part I)

  14 Mar 2011

  You are a doer. You're a multi-tasking whiz kid, burning the midnight oil, taking the heat when the office burns down, and then putting out that fire. See, I used to be like that too. But then my family grew, and, well, it was a wake-up call to let me know that 1) I didn't need to do everything all by...
• ScreenTips, document tooltips, & other things readers have taught us

  2 Mar 2011

  Today I'm engaging in a bit of laziness but still trying to help out as much as I can: I'm going through the comments and emails I've received the past few weeks and picking out a few that I think might help the great majority of you. These are comments where people have asked questions, I've provided...
• Pssst...what's a .pst file? Outlook terms defined

  2 Feb 2011

  Today, as we continue creating our "Demystifying Chain," we move on to Outlook. Ah, Outlook. Good old Outlook. We use it every day, all day, and still…some of its terminology vexes us. Let's see if I can't assuage some of that pain today so that we can get you to understand your right-hand program...
• Attachments, domain names, Bcclines and more...demystified

  31 Jan 2011

  Welcome to the first post in a series I'm hereby referring to as "The Demystifying Chain." If you read Friday's post , you know that my goal, for you, is to uncover, illuminate, and simply explain some of the language of Office software and computing in general. Why? Because I know that feeling of YAY...
• Can't delete items in Outlook? Crabby has some ideas

  24 Jan 2011

  As you know, I like to post tips that solve problems that maybe I heard just ONE person mention. And if you know me, you know why, but let's go over it again: Because it's never just one person; all it is, is that one person has actually tried to do something about it. The point being, there are probably...
• You create your own freedom: Go get your ribbon roadmap

  27 Dec 2010

  When Office 2007 first came out, what everyone noticed first was the new interface, namely, the ribbon. This ribbon replaced the menus and toolbars—yes, the self-same menus and toolbars that you constantly griped about and yet were suddenly so enamored of (you cannot imagine how much whiny feedback...
• Baby, I've filled the bottle of collaboration for you—now go drink

  15 Dec 2010

  I've previously written posts about collaboration tools and techniques in Office; I've covered Communicator , PowerPoint , SharePoint Workspace , Outlook calendars and Word . I want to take today's post to comment on why collaboration is such a hot button topic these days and why you really should consider...
• No, Crabby doesn't have your password

  1 Dec 2010

  Some of the feedback and e-mails I receive indicate that you're having some issues with Outlook passwords. Let's see if we can't salvage some of your sanity and unravel the mysteries of Outlook passwords at the same time. Question #1: Why won't Outlook save my password? I know...I KNOW! I get lots of...
• Dear Crabby: Printing overlaid calendars

  19 Nov 2010

  You know that in Outlook 2010 and 2007 you can have more than one calendar and that you can view all of your calendars together in a couple of different ways. (If you don't, the table below provides links that tell you how to do that.) For instance, I have three different calendars: one for work, one...
• RSS subscriptions versus e-mail

  13 Oct 2010

  I'm going to go over what RSS means and why it's the best way to get the web content you want. But first things first: I cannot subscribe or unsubscribe you to my or anyone else's RSS feed. I keep getting letters sent to my email account asking me to do so. Now that we have that out of the way, what...
• Dear Crabby: Creative Outlooking

  17 Sep 2010

  People continually try to use Office programs in magical ways that neither I nor the people I work with even thought of. And when the magic works, all is well with the world once again. First up: Sue wants to create a virtual poke using Outlook "Can I make Outlook send out nasty reminder e-mails? I would...
• Use this: Say it, don't spray it (using the Bcc line)!

  31 Aug 2010

  "Say it, don't spray it." I've used this little saying before, and it apparently made an impression on some of my readers (who, of course, wrote to tell me about it). But some of you are still not getting the message(including many of MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY). When I wrote that line way back when, I was...
• Visions & concepts: Forgotten attachment detector

  25 Aug 2010

  The Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) is a Grassroots Project from Bhavesh Chauhan, who works in Hyderabad, India, as a Software Development Engineer for Microsoft’s IT team. He created FAD as a side project in his personal time, and Office Labs is helping him release FAD publicly and collect...
• Crabby's tips for surviving performance reviews

  19 Aug 2010

  Chances are that if you work for a living, you're going to experience the joy of being reviewed on the work you do (and how you do it). There are ways to make performance reviews—for the giver and the receiver—a little less overwhelming. Keep track of your work using Search Folders (available...
• Crabby's effective meeting mantra

  17 Aug 2010

  So you want to call a meeting. What's the best way to do it? And once everyone is gathered together and staring at you, anticipating your pearls of wisdom, what's next? Step 1: Determine the purpose of the meeting What's the best way to get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. And what's one...