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• Outlook Best Practices: Maintaining the system

  11 Oct 2011

  In this final video installment, Harry has really learned some effective time and schedule management, and he knows that all that depends on consistently applying the principles he's learned — fundamentals that can happen naturally after they become part of a normal routine. But Renée has...
• 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...
• Start up Outlook to show ANYTHING but mail

  7 Sep 2011

  You're a rogue, a character, a one-of-a-kind. You care for neither paper nor plastic (as if). So maybe, when you open up Outlook for the day, you don't WANT mail to show up first. Why paint yourself into a corner, answering all those mails right away when you don't have to? Maybe you need to ease into...
• Preparing to be away

  24 Nov 2008

  Before you go on vacation or leave the office for an extended period of time (for example, before you leave for Thanksgiving), there are a few small things you can do to make your colleagues aware of your upcoming absence and to plan accordingly. Letting people know you are going away It is generally...
• Changing your theme

  22 Apr 2008

  Recently, we received the follow question and I thought I would share the answer with everyone: Is there a way to change the baby blue color to something more customized or at least revert back to the same color scheme of Outlook 2003? To change your Office theme, click “Tools” in the toolbar...
• 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...
• Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

  8 Feb 2008

  Using Outlook to manage and read your RSS feeds has several advantages over a stand-alone aggregator, including the ability to place flags and run rules on any RSS feed to which you subscribe. Some of you might be wondering what is RSS? Really Simple Syndication (usually referred to as RSS) is a way...
• Removing items from the To-Do Bar

  15 Jan 2008

  I don’t think there is much that is more satisfying than crossing things off a to-do list. The To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 can help you automatically create a to-do list and provide you with a few options for getting that satisfied feeling after you’ve wrapped up a task or followed up on an e-mail. If...
• Previewing Attachments in Outlook

  10 Oct 2007

  Next time someone sends you an attachment, instead of double-clicking, try single-clicking on it. Outlook 2007 has a great new feature that previews an attachment when you single-click on it: Outlook can preview many common types of files. Images work great, as do files created in Word, Excel, PowerPoint...
• 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...