Editors’ Note: The following is a guest post by Microsoft Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky as part of the MVP Award Program Blog 's series "10 Days for Office 2010". One of my favorite timesaving features in Outlook 2010 is Quick Steps. You can use Quick Steps to perform tasks you need to do frequently that involve multiple steps, such as filing messages in specific folders or flagging messages for follow up and sending a reply. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to your most frequently used quick...

Hello blog readers! Next week we will be upgrading our blog servers to support new features such as invisible captcha (you won’t need to enter numbers before commenting), a new excerpt view for easier browsing of blog posts, and easier sharing of posts on your favorite social sites like Facebook, Windows Live, or Twitter. As part of the upgrade process we will be disabling comments from Sunday, May 16 at 8:30pm PST to Monday, May 24 th , at 12pm PST . We apologize for the inconvenience but are excited...

With Microsoft Outlook 2010, you can stay connected by sending and receiving text messages (SMS). For instance, you could send a quick note to a co-worker saying you're running late for a meeting. You can also forward your upcoming Outlook schedule or important e-mail messages as a text message directly to a mobile device.  This post shows you the two ways to set up text messaging in Outlook.

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After several months of beta testing, Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 has officially been released as a replacement for Outlook Connector 12. Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 is compatible with Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010. Why use the Outlook Hotmail Connector? If you have been using Outlook Connector 12.1, you already know that it enables you to manage your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts from within Outlook. Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 introduces several...

Last week, as I was shopping on the Internet, I saw a shirt that I thought would be really great for my Dad’s birthday. Before ordering the shirt, I ran it by my Mom, just in case she had any other recommendations. So how did I get my Mom’s feedback? Usually, I just send her a link to the Web site and ask her to take a look. Recently, instead of sending her a link, I have been using the new Screenshot feature in Outlook 2010. When I’m writing my e-mail message to my Mom, I go to the Insert tab, click...

Have you been part of an e-mail conversation where there were multiple responses to a single message? Were you confident that you responded to the right message and to the right person? Conversations View in Microsoft Outlook 2010 helps you respond to complicated e-mail conversations. To learn more, watch the video. ";" mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/outlook/WindowsLiveWriter/SplitsYou_9D15/videocaececf47850.jpg" galleryimg="no"> Jenny Liu and Josh Meisels Outlook Program Managers

In earlier posts about the To-Do Bar you provided us a lot of great feedback. You might wonder what To-Do Bar improvements were made in Microsoft Outlook 2010. We want to present a brief overview of the work that we have done, based on your feedback, to make the To-Do Bar more useful. Date Headers The To-Do Bar now has date headers that separate meetings and appointments that occur on different days. These headers provide a quick at-a-glance way to see remaining items for the day and what is on your...

The Outlook team is excited to announce the availability of MySpace for Outlook , bringing another valued partner into the Outlook Social Connector and providing you with more ways to connect and stay up-to-date with friends and colleagues. MySpace for Outlook enables you to view activity updates for friends and colleagues in the People Pane, synchronize your MySpace contact list to your Outlook contacts, and get one-click access to profiles. See the press release on the MySpace Web site for more...

Conversations in Microsoft Outlook 2010 are an effective way to manage your e-mail messages. We hope you enjoyed the videos that we shared with you. If you are a power user of Outlook, you might want to tweak some settings to make Conversations work even better for you. There are four options available to customize conversations: · Show Messages from Other Folders · Show Senders above the Subject · Always Expand Conversations · Use Classic Indented View . To see these features, on the View tab, in...

When designing Outlook 2010, we worked hard to ensure that the colors, shapes, and text used within the product provide a pleasant experience and make it easy for you to get work done. We have done this by redesigning parts of the user interface to give Outlook a clean, crisp, high-quality look that is free from distracting visual elements. By simplifying many parts of the user interface, we’ve allowed your e-mail messages and meetings to shine in the foreground better than ever before! Let’s...