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• 10 insider's shortcuts for Outlook

  18 Oct 2011

  Shortcuts are generally good: When training to do heart surgery? Not good. When developing software that helps people be more productive? Not good. When using software more efficiently? Good. These last two are obviously related: When the developers of Outlook created the program, they did not take shortcuts...
• Outlook Best Practices: The Four Ds

  4 Oct 2011

  Learning to manage your email and time effectively is not only a function of Outlook features. Control of your schedule comes from understanding and following best practices in how you work. Renée explains the principles behind the practice of the "four Ds" in handling email: Delete it. Do it...
• Outlook Best Practices: Rules

  29 Sep 2011

  A lot of email messages you get don’t need a response, and don't even need to be read right away, especially those from large distribution lists. Renée shows Harry how to set up rules in Outlook that route email from those lists to special folders, to be read at a time that Harry schedules...
• Outlook Best Practices: Tasks

  21 Sep 2011

  Sorting through email—sometimes in that panicked or semi-panicked state—may seem the most logical way to figure out what you need to do RIGHT NOW. But I can tell you by experience that it isn't. If you have something that need to get done pronto and that you didn't schedule for a specific...
• Living in Outlook: Using Quick Parts

  2 Feb 2009

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! In previous posts I have talked about Message Templates and Advanced Message Templates...
• Living in Outlook: Advanced Message Templates

  17 Nov 2008

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! In my last blog post I talked about how I use Message Templates and how to create them. You may...
• Living in Outlook: Message Templates

  10 Nov 2008

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! At my job, I often send team status reports to the same people, or have a specific message style...
• Living in Outlook: Multi-Day Calendar Views

  27 Oct 2008

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! Most of the time, I keep my Outlook Calendar in week view so that I can quickly glance at my...
• A Safety Net for the Send Button

  14 Apr 2008

  Sometimes the Send button can backfire. Have you ever sent a mail to the wrong person by mistake? Have you ever sent an email and then realized a second too late that you forgot an important point, or could have worded things more carefully, or even misspelled something obvious, like your own name? Luckily...
• How to sort by anything

  28 Mar 2008

  One of the powerful things that Outlook can do is help you arrange your data in interesting ways. Outlook's Field Chooser is a great tool that helps you to add any Outlook field to your view, which you can then use to sort your data. Here’s an example involving contacts.  Suppose you meet...
• Q&A 2: Showing Tasks from PSTs in the To-Do Bar

  25 Feb 2008

  More Q&A: How to make the To-Do Bar show tasks from an Archive “Is there any way to get the To-Do Bar to also look at archived email? Because of our corporate policy on InBox size, I have to archive my emails daily. When the emails with flags are archived, they disappear off the To-Do Bar.”...
• Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

  18 Jan 2008

  One of the more popular features for Outlook’s calendar is the capability to add your country or region’s holidays into your calendar. This way, you’ll never miss the next holiday. Adding holiday items to your calendar is pretty easy: From the Tools menu, click Options, then click Calendar...
• The Daily Task List

  7 Dec 2007

  A few months ago we blogged about the new To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 , and today I'm going to expand on that by talking about the new Daily Task List , and how you can use it together with the To-Do Bar as a pretty cool little task-and-time-management system. Every good feature starts with a real-world...
• Outlook 2007 Gadgets for Windows Sidebar

  29 Nov 2007

  If you’re a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized, I’ve got great news for you, you can do this today with the Outlook Sidebar Gadgets. One of the new features introduced in Windows Vista is the Windows Sidebar...
• The Outlook Platform: Make Outlook Dance to your Tune!

  2 Nov 2007

  Outlook is a feature rich Personal Information Manager (PIM) and messaging application used by millions of users worldwide. While Outlook comes loaded with lots of features, many users have their own wish list containing features that they would love to see in Outlook. I’m a Program Manager for extensibility...
• Ultimate Inbox: Merging Inbox and Sent Items folders

  4 Oct 2007

  Do you love the conversation arrangement introduced in Outlook 2003, but feel like there is something missing? Well there is! By default, the conversation arrangement doesn’t include your contribution to the conversation. With just a few steps, you can configure Outlook to save copies of all outgoing...
• Make Reading Your E-Mail Easier in Outlook: Minimize the To-Do Bar and the Navigation Pane

  19 Sep 2007

  Do you ever feel like you just don’t have enough room to read your e-mail and RSS feeds in Outlook 2007? Here’s a tip: Minimize the To-Do Bar and the Navigation Pane! Go from this: To this: To minimize the To-Do Bar and/or the Navigation Pane, you can either: Click on the expand/collapse widget at the...
• The 1-2-3's on EBCs

  21 Aug 2007

  So you’ve finally decided to follow-up on your dream and began setting up your own small business. Although there is an endless list of things to do, your high level to-do list probably reads like this: Find a good business idea Establish your company Put together a productive team Find a catchy name...