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• Quick Rule Creation in Outlook 2010

  23 Apr 2012

  (NOTE: This post, which was first published in July 2010, is very popular. Obviously, a lot of you want help managing your overflowing inboxes and are turning to the Rules feature in Outlook to help you do that.) If you are a heavy email user like me, chances are good that you subscribe to a lot of mailing...
• Outlook Quick Steps: One-click shortcuts

  24 Oct 2011

  Question: How many mouse clicks and keyboard finger tappings does it take to categorize an email message, move it to a folder, add a follow-up flag, reply to it, and create a meeting request about it? Answer: One, if you're using a Quick Step. Quick Steps, new in Outlook 2010, is a feature that applies...
• 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: 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...
• Make the New Year great with a better organized Inbox

  31 Dec 2010

  This post is provided by Roby Kurian. Hi, I'm Roby Kurian, Product Manager for Outlook. I hope you enjoyed the holidays. Now that the holidays are over and the New Year is here, have you made your New Year's resolutions? I make New Year's resolutions almost every year. I have four resolutions for 2011...
• 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...
• Quickly creating a rule

  7 Mar 2008

  With the large quantity of mail that I receive every day it can be a chore to keep everything organized. I like to keep the most important mail in my inbox, and then filter everything else out into sub-folders for triaging later. To accomplish this, I make use of Outlook rules quite prolifically. Michael...
• Managing Automatic Meeting Responses

  14 Feb 2008

  I’m a big fan of the Clean Inbox concept for triaging my e-mail (more on that in a future postJ). This has naturally lead me to look for ways to keep ‘noise’ out of my Inbox and leave it as the single place to monitor mails that I need to triage (read/respond/defer). I already have...
• 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...